From the feral to the glamorous at Glastonbury 2024
Little Simz and SZA made Coldplay look bland in a festival full of politics, nostalgia and peeing in cups.
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The Macron era is over
The success of Marine Le Pen’s National Rally in France’s parliamentary elections has annihilated the president’s power base.
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A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder is deliciously old-fashioned television
This BBC series is delightful, knowing, involving, non-challenging, a touch silly. Suspend your disbelief, lie back and enjoy.
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Francis Bacon’s vile bodies
The fusion of violence and pleasure defined the painter’s life and work.
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James Corden’s comedy of menace
Joe Penhall’s new play The Constituent, starring Corden and Anna Maxwell Martin, is a funny, disturbing vision of public service…
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Left-behind Britain
Paul Collier’s new book reveals how worship of the market made the UK one of the most unequal countries in…
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Yorgos Lanthimos’s Kinds of Kindness is grotesque
The director of Poor Things and The Favourite presents three nasty tales of domination and submission.
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Why therapy apps are all talk
This form of counselling – cheap, fast, requiring little commitment – is antithetical to how therapy is supposed to work.
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Cat Bohannon Q&A: “We can actually make the world a bit better”
The academic and author on Jaws, Artemisia Gentileschi, and the fertility culture wars.
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Subscriber of the week: Damian Madden
Contact zuzanna.lachendro@newstatesman.co.uk if you would like to be featured.
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Down and Out: the Movie – in cinemas not quite yet
A film project based on these columns could change my life. Or not…
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As anti-Semitism surges, tolerance resurfaces at unexpected moments
Also this week: The enduring glamour of America, and the agony of clichés.
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The great wine climate-change challenge
As the planet warms this century, so wine-production regions and qualities will evolve with it.
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Letter of the week: How a nation sees itself
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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Is this election beyond satire?
With the Tories writing their own punchlines, the jokes in Michael Spicer: No Room are all too plausible.
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Douglas Is Cancelled: finally, a funny cancel culture comedy
Steven Moffat’s delicious satire is unafraid to take aim at youthful snowflakes and puritans.
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Sunak’s shrinking campaign: from the door of No 10 to doorsteps in his constituency…
Your weekly dose of gossip from the campaign trail.
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This England: Rice to see you
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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The Labour moment
Keir Starmer’s party has embraced the positions that we have long advocated on the economy, foreign policy and globalisation.
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The Lammy Doctrine
Labour’s foreign-secretary-in-waiting on why Britain must adapt to the world as it is, not as liberals wish it to be.
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