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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The biggest threat to freedom in the West is liberalism itself
Progressives everywhere are deploying the law to attack free speech. It is a bid for unchecked power that is galvanising…
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Anti-Semitism is rife in Britain – but be wary of simple media narratives
The row over a London police officer calling a man “openly Jewish” at a pro-Palestinian march reveals the perils of…
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How Mike Johnson defied the Trumpists in Congress over Ukraine
The US Senate has approved a bill for $95bn worth of foreign aid – thanks to the Republican speaker of…
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Iran’s new doctrine has changed everything
In the days following Tehran’s missile and drone attack on Israel, flights out of Tel Aviv were booked solid.
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Robin Simcox: “Extremism is not always a black-and-white issue”
The head of the Commission for Countering Extremism on why our categories for the threats we face are “not fit…
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Scotland’s spring of discontent
Doubts are growing over Humza Yousaf’s leadership of the SNP. Will he be ousted before the next Holyrood election in…
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Goya’s lessons for a world at war
Why the great Spanish painter’s work still resonates so urgently.
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The age of danger
Order is breaking down as the great powers take sides in multiple wars.
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The rise of the worried well
Caroline Crampton’s history of hypochondria shows how the internet has exacerbated health anxiety.
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Theresa May’s legacy of chaos
Tim Shipman shows how May’s charisma-free caution over Brexit made the rise of Boris Johnson inevitable.
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Salman Rushdie’s warning bell
His memoir Knife is a defence of free speech for a new age of intolerance. We should listen.
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Peter Frankopan Q&A: “If you want to write good history, read lots of novels”
The historian on retro football, easy-listening classics, and his favourite Byzantine emperor.
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