Gary Lineker’s tweet, the BBC’s panic, and why I was left to “sort it out”
As the Match of the Day host’s agent, I had a busy week at the centre of the impartiality storm.
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Fear and loathing at the BBC
In an era of fake news and hyperpartisan media, the rationale for a public-service broadcaster is stronger than ever.
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From Margaret Atwood to Gary Younge: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Life in the Balance by Jim Down and Liliana’s Invincible Summer by Cristina Rivera Garza.
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David Attenborough’s Wild Isles makes me proud to be British, despite everything
The new series, which roams from Shetland to Cornwall to Northern Ireland to capture our wildlife, is the BBC at…
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Of all my achievements, the greatest may be getting my mother’s cat to purr
Matching Hunter S Thompson and Christopher Hitchens drink for drink is nothing compared to my recent conquest.
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Leah Hazard Q&A: “Kindness, or even just civility, costs nothing”
The midwife and author on reproductive justice, Scottish winters and the healing power of Strictly Come Dancing.
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The new politics of time
How should we spend our hours in the age of burnout? Arguably not by reading Jenny Odell’s frustrating new book,…
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Rye Lane is a bright, euphoric south London romcom
Raine Allen-Miller’s visually dynamic debut turns a boy-meets-girl story into a joyous fantasy.
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Subscriber of the week: Julian Randall
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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The Weigh Up explores life after anorexia
This BBC Sounds podcast is a first-person account of how recovery from the eating disorder is possible.
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From Roald Dahl to Ian Fleming, censorship is good for the book trade
Releasing bowdlerised books into a predictable storm of ridicule and then making the “classic texts” available is clever business.
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Today’s global economy may look like that of the 1970s, but the crises we face are worse
Drawing parallels between recent price shocks and the fiscal turbulence of 50 years ago is misleading.
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Iain Dale’s Diary: An eerie Washington DC, Keir Starmer’s own goal, and the conundrum of Isabel Oakeshott
The Labour leader fumbled his justifications on LBC – but much of the outrage over Sue Gray’s appointment is confected.
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Letter of the week: Moving on from Blairism
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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Why the prospect of Dorries’ stories worries Tories
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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This England: Black and white inking
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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Mary Harrington: “Make sex consequential again”
The journalist and author on what liberal feminism gets wrong.
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The EU must accelerate its next enlargement
Admitting eight countries in eight years would be a daunting challenge for the European Union – but it would bring…
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The triumph of corporate newspeak
An unreal consensus grips our politics – and Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak offer only technocratic fixes for a Britain…
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Allelujah is Alan Bennett’s ode to the NHS
His 2018 play, set in a Yorkshire geriatric ward, is now a starry movie – with a pandemic-focused final act.
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