Election night is long, but I shall be on form at the New Statesman party
I have called every election wrong since 1974 and suffered many disappointments, but these are different times.
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Sunak’s honours list faces a Starmer peer review
Your weekly dose of gossip from the campaign trail.
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The secret history of strawberries
They are the perfect summer fruit – and the kitchen can’t improve on perfection.
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The threats faced by Taiwan make Britain’s politics feel provincial
In Taipei, at the new president’s inauguration, the huge forces remaking the world were impossible to ignore.
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Letter of the week: Missions without omission
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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Democracy begins with us
As a journalist in authoritarian China, I learned the value of community. As a parliamentary candidate in the UK, I…
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Will the Tories ever recover from this defeat?
The party will need to repudiate the failed policies and personalities of the past.
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From Neil Jordan to Lara Maiklem: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring The Singularity by Dino Buzzati and The Road to the Country by Chigozie Obioma.
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The Conservative catastrophe
The most successful political party in history has always reinvented itself after defeat. Can it do so again?
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Reform candidates are sinister
Nigel Farage’s company-cum-political party is not the answer to any of the UK’s ills.
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The young prole rebels of Dexys Midnight Runners
Denied an audience with frontman Kevin Rowland, the author Nige Tassell asks the band’s army of musicians to tell its…
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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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