Hannah Barnes: Inside the collapse of the Tavistock gender clinic
The Newsnight journalist on her book Time to Think, and why she had to tell the story of the children…
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Letter of the week: Our duty to Afghanistan
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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The war within Pink Floyd
How a Shakespearean battle between Dave Gilmour and Roger Waters erupted over art, money and geopolitics.
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This England: Delivered from danger
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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From Mark Hyatt to Nona Fernández: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Killjoy by Jo Cheetham and The Treasuries by Clare Bucknell.
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Can Britain ever rejoin the EU?
First, Remainers must understand what a future UK membership would actually entail.
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The strange death of the centre right
In Western democracies conventional conservativism is foundering. How did this once-dominant political force become so diminished?
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The anger and hope the earthquake left behind
As the death toll in Syria and Turkey passes 36,000, survivors question whether some deaths could have been prevented.
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Nicola Sturgeon is running out of time – and her rivals know it
As the First Minister’s popularity declines, her grip on her party and the country is slipping.
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The end of the Brexit taboo
Only the most ideological Leaver – of which there are a diminishing number – would contend that Brexit has done…
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Andrew Murray’s Diary: Back to my old Commons beat, recalling the bellowing-booth and lessons from the Iraq War
I am reprising my role as the Morning Star’s parliamentary reporter – and hoping there are no problems with my…
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Football remains spectacular, but the trust between clubs and the public is broken
The game’s richest teams have disfigured the economic terrain of the sport – but a reckoning is on the horizon.
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How consultancy bleeds Britain dry
In The Big Con Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington reveal how management consultants promise to fix governments but end up…
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In my broken state, the very last thing I need is to tour Brighton in search of meds
I was more wreck than human being, but at least I was less of a wreck than some of the…
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Munroe Bergdorf’s Q&A: “I would love a government that cares about its people”
The model and activist on Rishi Sunak, fighting for LGBT rights and her desire to have lived during the Eighties.
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BBC One’s The Gold is outstandingly enjoyable TV
This madly entertaining drama about the 1983 Brink’s-Mat robbery doubles as an account of the Thatcherite Eighties.
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Britain’s crisis of unbelief
In a nation that binds spiritual and temporal power, will the end of the old metaphysical order threaten the state…
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False teeth, smashed ceramics and unused fish knives – I come from a long line of hoarders
As market gardeners, my family were rich in fruit but little else – perhaps that explains the decapitated dolls’ heads…
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Pregnant Then Screwed’s Joeli Brearley: “I think motherhood radicalises you”
The activist on newly political mums, the idea of a women’s strike, and why Britain’s broken childcare system could decide…
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Michael Bracewell’s anatomy of English nostalgia
In Unfinished Business one of our finest cultural critics returns to fiction with a meditation on memory and national decline.
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