Nigel Biggar’s whitewashing of empire
The historian is right that Britain’s colonial legacy is morally complex. So why is his defence of it so simplistic?
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Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list promises to be a nepotistic gong show
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Letter of the week: A turning tide?
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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The NS Poem: From Brother Poem
A new poem by Will Harris.
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The Coldest Case in Laramie: yet another bleak true crime podcast
This series from the New York Times and Serial is only revealing of the media’s desperate drive for more murder…
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Subscriber of the Week: Sam Ansell
Please email peter.williams@newstatesman.co.uk if you would like to be the New Statesman’s subscriber of the week.
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What Keir Starmer has learnt from the return of the German Social Democrats
To win back Red Wall voters, Labour needs a single word to define the party and its purpose. That word…
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This England: Snail mail
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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From Sophie Mackintosh to Stephen Moss: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Brutes by Dizz Tate and The Turning Tide by Jon Gower.
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China’s hollow peace plan for Ukraine
Any hopes that Wang Yi’s visit to the Kremlin might have been to broker an end to the conflict have…
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Why Kate Forbes just won’t quit
The socially conservative religious beliefs of Scotland’s finance secretary have dismayed her supporters, yet her leadership campaign survives. Could she…
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The rewards of diplomacy
The Windsor framework represents unambiguous progress, and could clear the way for power-sharing to resume in Northern Ireland.
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Daisy Jones & the Six: an unconvincing, overly slick take on the 1970s rock scene
This mock biopic of a fictional, Fleetwood Mac-style band is full of beautiful actors and clothes – but even more…
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Britain’s original culture wars
A new history of the 17th century reminds us how bitter ideological conflicts have shaped our democracy.
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With Western support for Ukraine flagging, a protracted war is in Vladimir Putin’s interest
Ambiguity has held Kyiv’s allies together so far – but it will divide them when the conflict’s final stages approach.
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John Motson channelled the exhilaration of football, but commentary has moved on
For many fans the veteran commentator’s death has been the focal point for a wider sense of loss.
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Jason Williamson’s Q&A: “My Mastermind specialist subject? Crap bands”
The musician on his hero Sean Bean, his love of true crime and why he champions a fairer distribution of…
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My elderly mother, in hospital with a broken pelvis, is scandalising the staff
“What are you going to ask me about now?” said my mother to the nurse assessing her. “My sex life?”
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ChatGPT and the death of the author
AI-powered chatbots are not only exploiting human creativity but rapidly eroding it.
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The sex lives of medieval women
They were once considered far more lascivious than men – so how did women become the meeker sex?
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