How Metronomy’s The English Riviera captured the British seaside through eccentric electronica
Ten years on, these ridiculously slick rhythms still hit just as hard.
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The new Toryism
David Hockney: The Arrival of Spring is undermined by the artist’s digital medium
The images in this vivid chronicle of spring at his new home in France are pixelated, mechanical and flat.
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A Somewhat Complete History of Sitting Down is brisk, curious and fun
In this Audible series, historian Greg Jenner persuasively makes the case that the story of “who gets to sit,…
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Twenty years of feminist classic Legally Blonde
Like its protagonist Elle Woods, it is girlie, very Noughties, flamboyantly heterosexual and secretly, delightfully intelligent.
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BBC Two’s Gods of Snooker is brilliantly told social history
I love this series almost beyond words. It is a masterpiece.
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How Niall Ferguson’s Doom fails to make sense of the Covid crisis
The historian’s reading of the pandemic is undermined by theoretical jargon, incoherence and a self-consciously provocative right-wing position.
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Deborah Levy and the domestic
In the final instalment in her of “living autobiography” trilogy, Levy asks: how does a woman construct a life…
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The NS Poem: Margravine
A new poem by Maya C Popa.
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Reviewed in Short: New books by Jenn Shapland, Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz, Simon Armitage and Jon McGregor
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Shapland, The Passenger by Boschwitz, A Vertical Art: Oxford Lectures by Armitage and Lean Fall Stand…
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Emma Griffin’s Bread Winner reveals the human stories of the punishing Victorian economy
The historian explores the lives of families by making a detailed examination of 662 working-class autobiographies written from 1830…
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Parenthood in an age of crisis
The moral dilemmas of becoming a father.
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Reconsidering violence against women
In her new book, Jacqueline Rose insists that to confront “crimes of the deepest thoughtlessness”, we must reckon with…
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When red walls come tumbling down
Why “take back control” was on people’s minds long before Dominic Cummings.
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Letter from Gaza: The war that cannot be won
Further conflict between Israel and the Palestinians is inevitable – and futile.
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The rise of the new Toryism
Insecurity is the mood of the time – and the Conservative Party has adapted to it.
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Peter Singer: Why the case for veganism is stronger than ever
The moral philosopher on how pandemics and the climate crisis have newly exposed the dangers of meat-eating.
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First thoughts: Splits in the cabinet, one year of Test and Trace, and post-Covid nuptials
The debate over the Australia trade deal is just the first skirmish: if cheap Aussie lamb can split the cabinet,…
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Commons Confidential: A Comedy of Errors
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Perma-crisis at the corporation: Why the BBC keeps failing
We have seen that managing “scoops” can be deeply problematic for the BBC – the Martin Bashir interview with Princess…
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George Floyd’s murder one year on: has the US changed?
America's leaders promised justice. They still haven't delivered.
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Suffering should unite us, so why does it divide?
At a recent march in support of Palestinians, I thought about the history of Irish-Palestinian solidarity and the question…
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Kate Mosse’s Diary: Walking in downpours, the joys of Eurovision and how becoming a carer changed me
Without any irony or modishness, I’ve remained loyal to Eurovision. It’s all about the subversive excitement and the kitsch.
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Autocrats around the world are watching to see how the West responds to Belarus’s air piracy
There is one important reason why autocrats are targeting dissident exiles like journalist Roman Protasevich more and more: because…
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Dominic Cummings is quick to blame – but he fails to understand how government works
Cummings is wrong to believe that crises can be overcome simply by putting the right people in the right…
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A strange season ends: Foden, Mount and public-school floppy hair starred. Tuchel blew bubbles
There are plenty of dramas to remember, such as the potty plan to have a European Super League and the…
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When I look at my achievements in life, the one that stands out is my success in pub quizzes
My team has now won the weekly Covid Arms quiz nine times. No, really: this is important.
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It is an ecological evil that hares are slaughtered by landowners seeking to protect their profits
This butchery is perpetrated because the animals are thought to carry a viral disease – but there is no hard evidence to…
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History shows that in times of crisis we bury our treasures. What will archaeologists find of us?
With restrictions lifted I returned to the British Museum to see the rich objects found at the Anglo-Saxon burial of Sutton Hoo.
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This England: Llama alarm
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s Richard II, refers to the whole of Britain…
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Subscriber of the week: Richard Clifton
Email emily.bootle@newstatesman.co.uk if you would like to be the New Statesman’s Subscriber of the Week.
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Anoushka Shankar’s Q&A: “What would make my life better? Socks staying in pairs“
The musician discusses Sophie Walker, the founder of the Women's Equality Party, It's a Sin and her knowledge of curly…
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Letter of the week: Citizen conservation
A selection of the best letters received from our readers this week. Email letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced…
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Leader: New Times, New Tories
By embracing state intervention, the Conservatives are once more reinventing themselves and marginalising Labour.
By The NS Poem: Margravine
A new poem by Maya C Popa.
By Reviewed in Short: New books by Jenn Shapland, Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz, Simon Armitage and Jon McGregor
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Shapland, The Passenger by Boschwitz, A Vertical Art: Oxford Lectures by Armitage and Lean Fall Stand…
By Emma Griffin’s Bread Winner reveals the human stories of the punishing Victorian economy
The historian explores the lives of families by making a detailed examination of 662 working-class autobiographies written from 1830…
By Parenthood in an age of crisis
The moral dilemmas of becoming a father.
By Reconsidering violence against women
In her new book, Jacqueline Rose insists that to confront “crimes of the deepest thoughtlessness”, we must reckon with…
By First thoughts: Splits in the cabinet, one year of Test and Trace, and post-Covid nuptials
The debate over the Australia trade deal is just the first skirmish: if cheap Aussie lamb can split the cabinet,…
By Commons Confidential: A Comedy of Errors
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
By Twenty years of feminist classic Legally Blonde
Like its protagonist Elle Woods, it is girlie, very Noughties, flamboyantly heterosexual and secretly, delightfully intelligent.
By Perma-crisis at the corporation: Why the BBC keeps failing
We have seen that managing “scoops” can be deeply problematic for the BBC – the Martin Bashir interview with Princess…
By BBC Two’s Gods of Snooker is brilliantly told social history
I love this series almost beyond words. It is a masterpiece.
By Suffering should unite us, so why does it divide?
At a recent march in support of Palestinians, I thought about the history of Irish-Palestinian solidarity and the question…
By A Somewhat Complete History of Sitting Down is brisk, curious and fun
In this Audible series, historian Greg Jenner persuasively makes the case that the story of “who gets to sit,…
By Kate Mosse’s Diary: Walking in downpours, the joys of Eurovision and how becoming a carer changed me
Without any irony or modishness, I’ve remained loyal to Eurovision. It’s all about the subversive excitement and the kitsch.
By It is an ecological evil that hares are slaughtered by landowners seeking to protect their profits
This butchery is perpetrated because the animals are thought to carry a viral disease – but there is no hard evidence to…
By When I look at my achievements in life, the one that stands out is my success in pub quizzes
My team has now won the weekly Covid Arms quiz nine times. No, really: this is important.
By Autocrats around the world are watching to see how the West responds to Belarus’s air piracy
There is one important reason why autocrats are targeting dissident exiles like journalist Roman Protasevich more and more: because…
By History shows that in times of crisis we bury our treasures. What will archaeologists find of us?
With restrictions lifted I returned to the British Museum to see the rich objects found at the Anglo-Saxon burial of Sutton Hoo.
By Dominic Cummings is quick to blame – but he fails to understand how government works
Cummings is wrong to believe that crises can be overcome simply by putting the right people in the right…
By This England: Llama alarm
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s Richard II, refers to the whole of Britain…
By A strange season ends: Foden, Mount and public-school floppy hair starred. Tuchel blew bubbles
There are plenty of dramas to remember, such as the potty plan to have a European Super League and the…
By Letter of the week: Citizen conservation
A selection of the best letters received from our readers this week. Email letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced…
By Subscriber of the week: Richard Clifton
Email emily.bootle@newstatesman.co.uk if you would like to be the New Statesman’s Subscriber of the Week.
By Anoushka Shankar’s Q&A: “What would make my life better? Socks staying in pairs“
The musician discusses Sophie Walker, the founder of the Women's Equality Party, It's a Sin and her knowledge of curly…
By Leader: New Times, New Tories
By embracing state intervention, the Conservatives are once more reinventing themselves and marginalising Labour.
By George Floyd’s murder one year on: has the US changed?
America's leaders promised justice. They still haven't delivered.
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