Golf’s wealth wars
The influx of cash that came with the breakaway LIV series exposed the fault lines that run through all professional…
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What is Starmerism?
The three big ideas powering the next Labour government.
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The football club that data built
Brentford FC couldn’t outspend their Premier League rivals, so they decided to out-think them.
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Salman Rushdie: “The world has abandoned realism”
The novelist on the threat to free speech, facing his attacker, and why writing Knife gave him back “the power”.
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Jah Wobble Q&A: “Evil spirits shattered my parking sensors”
The legendary post-punk bassist and singer on teleportation, Tube trains, and living with the paranormal.
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Caspar David Friedrich and the mystery of eternity
The great painter, born 250 years ago, made it his lifelong task to depict the numinous in nature.
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Subscriber of the week: Mark Richardson
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The wild, herby comforts of nettle soup
The lip-tingling foraged food is an ancient reminder of our right to live off the land.
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Teenage boys talk masculinity
In BBC Radio 4’s About the Boys, 16-year-olds discuss what it means to “become a man”.
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ITV’s preposterous Red Eye is a bargain-basement Snakes on a Plane
This jumbo-jet thriller has a just-add-boiling-water feel, as though made from the dried remains of other dramas.
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Luca Guadagnino’s wryly horny tennis film Challengers
In this playful depiction of a toxic ménage-à-trois between players, the sport is a stand-in for sex.
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Spring’s lighter evenings have brought me back to life
It’s a cruel and twisted joke that this country is kept dark all winter because of our obsession with GMT.
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Even now, I still fantasise about being a footballer
I’d have little chance at Man City, but Spurs? No problem. I am sure my tortoise could get a game…
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Neurodiversity is usually just part of being human
With referrals for ADHD, autistic spectrum disorder and other conditions swamping the NHS, we need to rethink medicine’s role in…
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From Marilynne Robinson to Ross King: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Hagstone by Sinéad Gleeson and England: Seven Myths that Changed a Country by Tom Baldwin and Marc Stears.
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This England: Split decision
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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The superhuman I’d pictured turns out to be a super human indeed
I finally meet the boxer I’ve heard so much about. Unexpectedly, we hit it off.
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Letter of the week: Schools out
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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Labour’s former rugby player Khalid Mahmood high-tackles a heckler
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Britain is divided by educational status
The crisis at Goldsmiths is symbolic of what is going wrong in our universities.
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