Sold down the river
England’s broken water industry is a case study in the dangers of dogmatic privatisation. It is time to rethink…
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The Trauma Ward
Letter of the week: Capital errors
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Priti situations vacant: Tories plot to install Patel as PM
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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The UK should stop sending arms to Israel
After Israeli forces killed seven aid workers in Gaza, there is renewed momentum to reach a ceasefire.
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My mother-in-law’s life ended as it began: in a Gazan refugee camp
The last time I saw her was when I left for Egypt. Now, I watch from afar as my…
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Rob Henderson: “I guess there is survivor’s guilt”
The writer and thinker on reliving his traumatic childhood, campus cancel culture, and the rise of “luxury beliefs”.
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The new racist right are uniquely dangerous
Online, they openly espouse a politics utterly at odds with basic notions of equal human worth and dignity. Yet…
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The West’s useful idiots
The solipsism and self-censorship of the campus intelligentsia has spread throughout society. But demand for instruction in progressive doublespeak…
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How Britain legalised crime
The UK’s neglected towns have become a haven for criminals while residents try to retain local pride – and…
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How the National Trust won the war on woke
The charity has outsmarted and outmanoeuvred its critics, who are all too easy to caricature as furious cranks and…
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The trauma ward
Each year thousands of women suffer the nightmare of a traumatic birth. I was one of them.
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Inside Labour’s foreign policy factory
How Keir Starmer and David Lammy plan to reshape Britain’s role in an age of global upheaval.
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How to mend a broken economy
The laissez-faire era is over, says Will Hutton – the next Labour government must find growth through intervention.
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Women writers and the lure of deep England
The country lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann were studies in class, conflict and creativity.
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From Neel Mukherjee to Gavin Stamp: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Sunken Lands by Gareth E Rees and The Spinning House by Caroline Biggs.
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Inside the rise of Ziggy Stardust
How a hairdresser from Beckenham entered the court of David Bowie.
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A reckoning for the British Museum
Haunted by scandal, the museum has become a “black hole” for artefacts. It’s time to bring it down, says…
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The best of the academic presses for spring 2024
The New Statesman’s highlights, from AI to the American right and Greek drama to goth culture.
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We are all Tom Ripley
In our culture of fraud and corruption, Patricia Highsmith’s anti-hero is just another con man.
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The book that shaped my green politics
I hadn’t connected the women’s and environmental movements until I found Jonathan Porritt’s Seeing Green. A lightbulb moment followed.
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The contested afterlife of Amy Winehouse
In her life and music, she was beyond confessional. Can Sam Taylor-Johnson’s biopic tell us more about her than…
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Alex Garland’s Civil War is his sharpest, most brutal dystopia
The British director’s film imagines a present day America that has fallen into internecine violence.
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What went wrong with The Regime?
In HBO’s political satire, every line sinks like a stone, and every episode lasts for a year.
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The cost of climbing Everest
A new Radio 4 series reveals the stark and deadly reality of conquering the world’s highest mountain.
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The warm winter’s underwhelming crop
The marvellous front gardens near Kew leave me in awe of those who managed to grow tulips this spring.
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Our A&E crisis is killing hundreds a week – and government spin can’t hide it
A new programme to increase competition between hospitals is pure The Thick of It politics.
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The continuous rain is driving me mad
The long wet spell seems to be straight out of a dystopian story – one that I wrote myself.
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I finally understand that friendships change
Life got in the way of the fantasies my closest friends and I created in childhood – but now…
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This England: Del Boy’s Digs
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: Eamonn Rafferty
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Josie Long Q&A: “I wish Keir Starmer had a functioning spine”
The stand-up comedian on Joanna Newsom, expressionism, and the dream of being a forest ranger.
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