
Letter of the week: The crisis we helped create
A selection of the best letters received from our readers this week. Email letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New…
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A selection of the best letters received from our readers this week. Email letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New…
ByRum’s colonial past is proof that even the sweetest of hard liquors has a bitter backstory.
ByThere is so much lacking. Financial security, happiness, pictures on the walls, space, love. Not to mention trousers.
ByNow, Voyager tells the story of a woman emerging from a kind of imprisonment and taking her place in the…
ByThis column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s Richard II, refers to the whole of Britain…
ByThe health impacts of climate change are stark; heatwaves in 2003 and 2006 each caused more than 2,000 deaths in…
ByEmail ellys.woodhouse@newstatesman.co.uk if you would like to be the New Statesman's Subscriber of the Week.
ByThe author discusses the Smiths, Billy Connolly and the Home Secretary's poor decision making.
ByThe essayist and speaker on her Manhattan lockdown, 9/11 and disappointing Americans – from Andy Warhol to Joe Biden.
ByThe wife of Emperor Augustus treated her guests to a visual delight with her painted “Garden Room”.
ByThat the great reviser of horror, Jordan Peele, might want to revisit Candyman must have occurred to anybody who…
ByThis ironic take on a “wellness” retreat, starring Nicole Kidman, is so improbable it doesn’t work.
ByListening to musicians discuss their best travel experiences is both magical and otherworldly.
ByRaymond Williams made it his mission to reclaim culture from the literary elite. A century after his birth, he…
ByAttending his lectures at Cambridge in the 1970s, it was clear this was a time of radical change.
ByAccording to a new book by Adrian Pabst, we are waiting for a new social theory to form a…
ByThe disappearance – and discovery – of John Stonehouse was a scandal of its time. But did the tabloids…
ByThe Making of Oliver Cromwell by Hutton, The Daughters of Kobani by Tzemach Lemmon, The Women of Troy by Barker and…
ByDecades of corruption and misrule have exhausted South Africa. Hope for the future remains, but it is slighter than…
ByUntil the campaigns launched under the “war on terror”, interventionism had some notable successes. But the Afghan conflict has…
ByIn 1998 the Taliban massacred 2,000 Hazara people, long the victims of sectarian violence. In my mountains and in…
ByWhat connects the Labour Party’s response to the withdrawal from Afghanistan and a McDonald’s milkshake?
ByFrom industrial policy and nuclear power to "strategic autonomy" and the 35-hour week, the 2020s are popularising many French instincts about world…
ByFeminists from Turkey are especially alert to what is happening in Afghanistan. For us, the rise of fundamentalism is an…
ByAs thousands depart with their life in a piece of hand luggage, Afghanistan feels like a nation emptying of some of…
ByThere needn’t be any contradiction between the preservation of beauty and the necessity to provide housing.
ByEnglish cricket's latest short-form revolution has brought glitzy marketing, compulsory fun, and a ruthless power grab.
ByThe UK took in 9,351 Afghan refugees in 2020, while Germany accommodated 148,000.
ByThe star US strategist on the case for reforming Congress.
ByIn 1842, in a similarly chaotic fashion as today, the British evacuated 16,000 troops and civilians from Afghanistan.
ByMocking angry young men may feel cathartic, but it won’t stop radicalisation.
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