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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Florian Zeller’s The Son is a work of crass melodrama
The decorated playwright and director’s follow-up to his Oscar-winning The Father is manipulative and underwritten.
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An unmissable view of Vermeer’s secret worlds
This unprecedented gathering of the artist's works at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam reveals the painter's mastery, if not his mystery.
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Magic Mike’s hollow feminism
This “empowering” franchise about male strippers peddles an offensive, patronising narrative about women and sexuality.
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Our Shamima Begum obsession
Her story has been told and retold in countless newspaper articles, three podcasts and three documentaries. Why can’t we look…
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Subscriber of the week: Paul Pearce
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What does Evgeny Lebedev want?
Buying British newspapers gave the Lebedevs clout in Tory high politics. Over a decade on, it remains unclear what they…
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Yalda Hakim’s Diary: Afghanistan’s freezing winter, secret schools for girls, and the crime of being a woman
After the Taliban took over I met many women who told me they had no intention of leaving – but…
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Another Rishi reshuffle won’t help him restore party discipline
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Letter of the week: Reasons to stay put
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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Why Europeans should not get too used to Joe Biden, the last of the Atlanticists
After the traumas of the Trump presidency, Europe is mistaking his successor’s leadership for the new normal.
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This England: Twitchers vs Twitter
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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From Brian Dillon to Tara Zahra: new titles reviewed in short
Also featuring Masters of the Lost Land by Heriberto Araujo and I Am Still With You by Emmanuel Iduma.
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