Letter of the week: Scotland’s tough choice
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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What went wrong
Leader: The revenge of history, 30 years on from the fall of the wall
Beyond the West, the assumption that economic liberalism would lead to political liberalism has been disproved.
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We say the sun comes up
A new poem from Kate Bingham.
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Benjamin Myers’s The Offing: a sensual pleasure
The prose in The Offing is baroque and proudly old-fashioned, the antithesis of Sally Rooney-style sparseness.
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Prince’s The Beautiful Ones: filmic dreams of a life.
The pop icon’s unfinished autobiography offers glimpses of his childlike imagination.
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Trusting science in an age of environmental breakdown
Naomi Oreskes makes clear the many reasons we should trust science. Whether or not we find the political will to…
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We Are Made of Diamond Stuff: a pungent, fluent, thrilling novel
In Isabel Waidner’s Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted novel, Reebok is discussed along with Robert Rauschenberg, commas enable syntactical flow, and genders…
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Annie Baker’s The Antipodes: a masterpiece of overlapping parts
Baker has created a brilliantly naturalistic depiction of a meeting underscored by office politics.
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BBC’s His Dark Materials keeps all the seriousness of the original novels
The TV and books I loved best as a child flattered me by seeming to treat me as an…
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Who Will Call Me Beloved? captures the atmosphere of a cemetery
What does a writer-in-residence at a cemetery actually do? Precisely as you’d imagine: wanders the graves noting evocative things…
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How the UK pitched for oil giant Saudi Aramco – and lost
The biggest, dirtiest deal in history.
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First Thoughts: The Tory-Brexit Party pact, Putin’s “iron grip” and Steve Bannon eyes up the Telegraph
The Conservatives’ secret is that they never allow a rival on the right or centre right to gain traction.
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Commons Confidential: Grant Shapps’s plane-speaking
Your weekly dose of gossip from around the Houses.
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“It’s the biggest public safety threat”: The Met officer who joined Extinction Rebellion
Why Paul Stephens, a former detective sergeant who left the Metropolitan Police last year, joined Extinction Rebellion as its police liaison.
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Why the Spectator tolerates the intolerable
The collapse of the intellectual right.
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The Orchids were 14 years old, pop’s next big thing – and unable to afford the train home
The Hollies gave them a lift once. Another time they hitchhiked up the M1, after Ray Davies, then about…
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I could learn a thing or two from Jack Reacher – especially when a child tries to steal my sausage
For those who do not know him, Reacher is a tough-as-nails ex-military policeman (US Army) who keeps getting himself…
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Two great football mysteries: what the crowds are chanting and why Arsenal fans are so mean
Crowds can be witty and spontaneous, but also elliptical and complicated, booing players for sins committed ages ago, or…
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Harry Connick Jr Q&A: “I can’t get enough of David Brent“
The musician talks the British Office, Tim Cook, and America in the 1400s.
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I’ve floated through life on a river of coffee and wine. So why do I write mainly about the latter?
They have so much more in common than my devotion.
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We’re told Britain is a powerhouse of innovation but the creativity myth isn’t just misguided, it’s dangerous
Contrary to the claims, we’re in danger of becoming a nation of David Brents.
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Germany seems strong, but it is still grappling with the forces unleashed when the wall fell
The country brought back together 30 years ago was a nation not just divided but stunted: its past not fully…
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Margaret Hodge’s Diary: Reselection triumphs, a shocking letter, and why women get more anti-Semitic abuse
I could have walked away, but it’s not in my nature to run from a political battle and I…
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The Conservatives are well ahead in the polls, but they fear tactical voting and pro-Remain pacts
So far, the smells emanating from Johnson’s kitchen are promising, yet the mood among Tory MPs is far from…
By Germany seems strong, but it is still grappling with the forces unleashed when the wall fell
The country brought back together 30 years ago was a nation not just divided but stunted: its past not fully…
By How the UK pitched for oil giant Saudi Aramco – and lost
The biggest, dirtiest deal in history.
By First Thoughts: The Tory-Brexit Party pact, Putin’s “iron grip” and Steve Bannon eyes up the Telegraph
The Conservatives’ secret is that they never allow a rival on the right or centre right to gain traction.
By We’re told Britain is a powerhouse of innovation but the creativity myth isn’t just misguided, it’s dangerous
Contrary to the claims, we’re in danger of becoming a nation of David Brents.
By We say the sun comes up
A new poem from Kate Bingham.
By “It’s the biggest public safety threat”: The Met officer who joined Extinction Rebellion
Why Paul Stephens, a former detective sergeant who left the Metropolitan Police last year, joined Extinction Rebellion as its police liaison.
By Commons Confidential: Grant Shapps’s plane-speaking
Your weekly dose of gossip from around the Houses.
By Benjamin Myers’s The Offing: a sensual pleasure
The prose in The Offing is baroque and proudly old-fashioned, the antithesis of Sally Rooney-style sparseness.
By Why the Spectator tolerates the intolerable
The collapse of the intellectual right.
By Prince’s The Beautiful Ones: filmic dreams of a life.
The pop icon’s unfinished autobiography offers glimpses of his childlike imagination.
By Letter of the week: Scotland’s tough choice
A selection of the best letters received from our readers this week. Email letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced…
By Trusting science in an age of environmental breakdown
Naomi Oreskes makes clear the many reasons we should trust science. Whether or not we find the political will to…
By We Are Made of Diamond Stuff: a pungent, fluent, thrilling novel
In Isabel Waidner’s Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted novel, Reebok is discussed along with Robert Rauschenberg, commas enable syntactical flow, and genders…
By Who Will Call Me Beloved? captures the atmosphere of a cemetery
What does a writer-in-residence at a cemetery actually do? Precisely as you’d imagine: wanders the graves noting evocative things…
By Margaret Hodge’s Diary: Reselection triumphs, a shocking letter, and why women get more anti-Semitic abuse
I could have walked away, but it’s not in my nature to run from a political battle and I…
By Annie Baker’s The Antipodes: a masterpiece of overlapping parts
Baker has created a brilliantly naturalistic depiction of a meeting underscored by office politics.
By BBC’s His Dark Materials keeps all the seriousness of the original novels
The TV and books I loved best as a child flattered me by seeming to treat me as an…
By I’ve floated through life on a river of coffee and wine. So why do I write mainly about the latter?
They have so much more in common than my devotion.
By The Conservatives are well ahead in the polls, but they fear tactical voting and pro-Remain pacts
So far, the smells emanating from Johnson’s kitchen are promising, yet the mood among Tory MPs is far from…
By The Orchids were 14 years old, pop’s next big thing – and unable to afford the train home
The Hollies gave them a lift once. Another time they hitchhiked up the M1, after Ray Davies, then about…
By Harry Connick Jr Q&A: “I can’t get enough of David Brent“
The musician talks the British Office, Tim Cook, and America in the 1400s.
By I could learn a thing or two from Jack Reacher – especially when a child tries to steal my sausage
For those who do not know him, Reacher is a tough-as-nails ex-military policeman (US Army) who keeps getting himself…
By Leader: The revenge of history, 30 years on from the fall of the wall
Beyond the West, the assumption that economic liberalism would lead to political liberalism has been disproved.
By Two great football mysteries: what the crowds are chanting and why Arsenal fans are so mean
Crowds can be witty and spontaneous, but also elliptical and complicated, booing players for sins committed ages ago, or…
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