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Weighing the options in a country where nothing works any more
Should I give it another quarter of an hour, or cut my losses, get off the train, and drink myself…
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Inside Northern Ireland’s satanic panic
John Meagher: The Divil’s Own is a mind-boggling tale of collective nightmares, visions and ghosts.
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Should you join the 2024 gold rush?
The metal beloved of pirates and 1930s governments is booming. But investing in a volatile commodity always carries risk.
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In wine’s culture war, we’ve all been winners
The natural movement took on the rule-choked wine establishment, and has changed drinks culture for the better.
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Schumann and the arrival of spring
How the composer moved from riotously original piano music to the light-footed symphony that made his name.
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Tom Hollander’s deliciously nasty Truman Capote
In Feud: Capote vs the Swans, the actor is unpleasant to behold: a campy, sweaty homunculus. It’s a joy to…
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The Book of Clarence is a bombastic biblical satire
Jeymes Samuel’s comedy is both a playful riff on the religious epic and a witty homage to sword-and-sandals films.
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Percival Everett’s American absurd
The author behind American Fiction on rewriting Mark Twain, the evolution of racism, and his addiction to irony.
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Why we make art
In Amsterdam, in the Van Gogh museum gift shop, I wonder: is this what we call success?
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Why I was banned from Germany
In the name of protecting Israel’s security, the German government has sunk to farcical new authoritarian lows.
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Rage and conspiracy on Trump’s trail
At a rally in Schnecksville, Pennsylvania, a fervid former president kept his audience rapt. Suburbs like this will soon decide…
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The perils of polyamory
Molly Roden Winter’s riveting, explicit memoir More makes the case for open marriage as self-help – but her logic is…
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How America bought up Britain
From assets to businesses, the high street to the internet, US investors have a stranglehold on Britain’s economy.
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This England: May the farce be with you
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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Abortion rights will be worse under Trump
The former president created the chaos and cruelty of America’s reproductive restrictions. And they will only intensify in a second…
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Ukraine is Europe’s problem now
Germany expects a long war of attrition in Ukraine. That is a war Putin is likely to win.
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Plebgate’s Andrew Mitchell furnishes himself with a downmarket ministerial title
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Letter of the week: Maternal responsibility
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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The new age of global threats
For decades, the West enjoyed the fruits of the post-Cold War “peace dividend”. This era is now definitively over.
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