A street rendition of “Wonderwall” sends me to seek sanctuary in a church
Inside London's Notre Dame de France, I find beautiful murals by Jean Cocteau.
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Green Ed’s red rage
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Listening to Debussy at thrash metal volume
One shouldn’t use a fork to scoop ear wax out, but I was getting frantic.
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Letter of the week: Starmer’s rhetoric gap
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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From Rachel Kushner to Mark Rowlands: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Stone Circles by Colin Richards and Vicki Cummings and The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective by…
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Anthony Joseph Q&A: “I’ve collected around 30,000 vinyl records”
The poet on Chris Ofili and a fascination with reality TV.
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A new flat and a new joint life – the dream is no longer a dream
I pled with the universe, God, and any other higher powers I could think of. Finally, M— and I live…
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A digested history of British protein and its strict social hierarchies
The macronutrient has a physiological role as well as a cultural and commercial one.
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Lynn Barber’s conversation pieces
The celebrity interviewer on men speaking over her, her most interesting subject, and entering her ninth decade.
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Carol Vorderman is coming for Labour
From Countdown to unlikely revolutionary – the broadcaster and social media star is a political conundrum.
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How the fight against sleeping sickness was won
We are closer than ever before to consigning the “the colonial disease” to history.
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How to raise taxes
Labour has the political freedom to make unpopular decisions.
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Why do Democrats covet Taylor Swift’s support?
Seeing the party salivate over celebrity endorsements is uncomfortable viewing.
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Fred Again, EDM’s everybro
How did the unassuming producer of polite, emotive dance music become social media’s superstar DJ?
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The hotel-room blandness of Netflix’s The Perfect Couple
There are bathroom tiles more expressive than Nicole Kidman in her latest in a long line of increasingly hollow TV…
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Firebrand is an unhistorical and unforgettable Tudor drama
Alicia Vikander and Jude Law excel in this retelling of Henry VIII’s marriage to Catherine Parr.
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Clint Dyer Q&A: “You know more than you think you do”
The actor and director on bell hooks and the enduring power of nature.
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The NS Poem: The Sea
A poem by Graham Mort.
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Starmer suffers while Rayner goes raving – and the press can’t decide which is worse
The Sun dispatches a reporter to spy on Angela Rayner in Ibiza. Plus: what would a world without X look…
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From Labour’s economic plan to the Tory leadership: no one wants to be associated with Liz Truss
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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