Europe turns right
Parties of the hard right are in the ascendancy across the continent – but their political prospects are difficult to…
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How Europe’s hard right went mainstream
Across the continent, EU leaders have badly misread the nationalist surge.
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The Tories’ fate was decided long before the D-Day blunder
For the Conservatives, the race was probably already lost in January 2023.
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The Ozempic effect
Magic Pill, Johann Hari’s study of the rise of diet drugs, sheds light on our deeply dysfunctional food culture.
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The election debates: as petty and embarrassing as a staff-room squabble
The politicians arguing on BBC and ITV reminded me of the teachers at my comprehensive after too much Mellow Bird’s.
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An assisted cycle through scenic Silesia
How I conquered picturesque Polish volcanoes, e-bikes and endless vegetarian meals.
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Subscriber of the week: Jay Mitra
What do you do? Professor of business enterprise and innovation at the University of Essex. Where do you live? In…
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James Shapiro Q&A: “I’d like to live in 1600s London – just for a week”
The American academic on finding fulfilment in Shakespeare, structuralism and dry-stone walls.
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Queenie is a crude parody of real women
The charmless TV adaptation of Candice Carty-Williams’s novel is full of cliché, cod psychology and faux empowerment.
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Viggo Mortensen’s self-indulgent Western
In The Dead Don’t Hurt, the actor struggles to update an archaic genre.
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This England: Clucking hell
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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Rediscovering the bright lights
An old album and a Pet Shop Boys gig remind me of music’s power to refresh memories and forge new…
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The officer class is swelling Labour’s ranks
Your weekly dose of gossip from the campaign trail.
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Breaking sugar’s hold makes culinary pleasures even sweeter
Having reset my relationship with sugary food, I’m no longer led by my sweet tooth.
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Letter of the week: The joys of spring
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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Teenagers don’t need mandatory national service: politicians do
With citizenship training for MPs, the Commons would see a marked improvement, as would our response to crises.
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Waging lawfare against Trump will not end well for Democrats
Progressives must speak out against partiality in the legal process and the endless persecution of the former president.
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Keir Starmer’s promise of stability will come back to haunt him
With Britain in ruins, change without disruption means no change at all.
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What if the polls are right?
A Labour landslide could change the politics of a future Keir Starmer government.
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Kemi Badenoch and the legal definition of sex
The presumptive front-runner for the next Conservative leadership contest has been unfairly vilified.
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