Labour’s winter fuel revolt
Keir Starmer must forge a politics of generational solidarity. The crises the UK faces require collaboration, not conflict.
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Trump in turmoil
Letter of the week: A step in the wrong direction
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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From MP to pigs’ pee: how ejected Tories are faring on the jobs market
Your weekly dose of gossip from Westminster.
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Vladimir Putin’s enemy within
The president’s betrayal of his conscript army is creating a generation ready to sow chaos in Russia.
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On the kindness of book people
Also this week: Yodelling for Kafka and how water connects us all.
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How Telegram fosters online extremism
The under-regulated platform lacks transparency. The Southport riots remind us why this matters.
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Keir Starmer must tell a better story
The Prime Minister needs to offer hope as well as gloom.
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How America resembles the dying Soviet Union
Like the former communist bloc, Western liberalism is slowly disintegrating.
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The BBC has finally grasped how to manage a scandal
Jermaine Jenas must be surprised the Beeb dealt with a case so swiftly and soundly. Plus: has Labour killed…
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A trade war between the EU and China would be a disaster for Europe
The problem with EU tariffs is not their legitimacy, it’s their effectiveness.
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Donald Trump’s identity crisis
How the former president’s campaign abandoned its populist roots.
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Medicine wars
A revolt over patient safety and declining expertise is tearing the medical establishment apart.
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Robert Harris: “Great politicians are like novelists”
The writer on Keir Starmer, Labour’s “grim” inheritance and his desire to reinvent the past.
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How to be human in an age of AI
New technologies cannot replace the pleasure and self-expression of living.
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The NS Poem: Jackdaw Beach – Low-Key
A poem by John Kinsella.
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From Robert Bartlett to Donal Ryan: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Sing Like Fish by Amorina Kingdon and Tracks on the Ocean by Sara Caputo.
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How motherhood was weaponised
Is child-rearing political or deeply personal? Helen Charman’s new history reckons with the tension between mother and state.
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Long live the low life
Jeremy Clarke’s final Spectator columns, written after his cancer diagnosis, are witty, well balanced and devoid of self-pity.
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Sing Sing is a tender portrait of creativity behind bars
The film stars former inmates playing themselves as they stage a performance on the inside.
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Why Sherwood matters
The second series of James Graham’s Nottinghamshire-set BBC drama is event television at its best.
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Can the country house survive?
Tristram Hunt’s Radio 4 documentary The Grand House: Boom or Blight? charts the English manor’s contested legacy.
Even garage-bought flowers can provide delight
The joy of the simple pelargonium.
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Thought experiment 2: The Unconscious Violinist
How the American ethicist Judith Jarvis Thomson’s defence of bodily autonomy can be transposed on to the right to…
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A jokey exchange in Waitrose veers into darkly existential territory
A question about whether I was old enough to buy alcohol haunts me with brutal irony.
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A brush with a bushy tail has turned my family into red squirrel fanatics
Since first spotting the wild visitors last December, my parents’ garden has become something of a red squirrel hotspot.
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Unfamiliar managers and radical new hair – but it’s the same old Prem
Welcome to a wonderful new season.
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This England: what the flock?
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: Simon Tyler-Murphy
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Sarah Moss Q&A: “I’ve outgrown heroes – we’re all flawed and fallen”
The writer on living in words and backpacking in Iceland.
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