Medicine wars
A revolt over patient safety and declining expertise is tearing the medical establishment apart.
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A jokey exchange in Waitrose veers into darkly existential territory
A question about whether I was old enough to buy alcohol haunts me with brutal irony.
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Thought experiment 2: the Unconscious Violinist
How the American ethicist Judith Jarvis Thomson’s defence of bodily autonomy can be transposed on to the right to abortion.
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A trade war between the EU and China would be a disaster for Europe
The problem with EU tariffs is not their legitimacy, it’s their effectiveness.
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From MP to pigs’ pee: how ejected Tories are faring on the jobs market
Your weekly dose of gossip from Westminster.
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Letter of the week: A step in the wrong direction
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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Labour’s winter fuel revolt
Keir Starmer must forge a politics of generational solidarity. The crises the UK faces require collaboration, not conflict.
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A brush with a bushy tail has turned my family into red squirrel fanatics
Since first spotting the wild visitors last December, my parents’ garden has become something of a red squirrel hotspot.
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Vladimir Putin’s enemy within
The president’s betrayal of his conscript army is creating a generation ready to sow chaos in Russia.
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How motherhood was weaponised
Is child-rearing political or deeply personal? Helen Charman’s new history reckons with the tension between mother and state.
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Zandra Rhodes: Q&A: “We need to fill our world with more colour”
The fashion designer on exploring India in the 1980s, needing more time, and the mysterious death of her hydrangeas.
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Subscriber of the week: Sally Hobbs
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I went to face down rioters but was confronted by my own fame instead
In countering the fash I felt the years roll away.
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If I could be a tree, I’d be a sycamore
Its low-hanging branches are made for childhood adventures.
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PJ Harvey’s songs of England
Across her varied discography, the singer-songwriter conjures images of hyper-local folk tales and white Dorset cliffs.
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The mass psychogenic illness that started with the cheerleaders
The investigative series Hysterical provides a compelling listen about the mind, the body and girlhood in small-town America.
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Brian May’s educational masterpiece
The rock star’s plea to save the badgers is strangely captivating.
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Widow Clicquot review: a sickly sweet champagne story
This is just the latest in a succession of self-congratulatory, syrupy brand movies.
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From Andrea di Robilant to Simon Morrison: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Turning to Stone by Marcia Bjornerud and True Love by Paddy Crewe.
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Violence against women and girls is a deeper problem than politicians realise
All parents worry about their children from time to time, but now it feels different.
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