The Angela Rayner tax row spells real danger for Labour
It may be Tory deflection, but the story’s chief target is Keir Starmer: can he be portrayed as weak and…
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Israel and Iran’s deadly game
They bet that direct attacks would not lead to a disastrous escalation. The Middle East is now on the brink.
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Why Iran’s attack on Israel failed
The drone and missile strike conveyed as much weakness as it did strength.
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Andrew O’Hagan’s maximum city
Caledonian Road is a brick of a novel lobbed at the towering glass houses of London.
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The continuous rain is driving me mad
The long wet spell seems to be straight out of a dystopian story – one that I wrote myself.
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The book that shaped my green politics
I hadn’t connected the women’s and environmental movements until I found Jonathan Porritt’s Seeing Green. A lightbulb moment followed.
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The warm winter’s underwhelming crop
The marvellous front gardens near Kew leave me in awe of those who managed to grow tulips this spring.
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The best of the academic presses for spring 2024
The New Statesman’s highlights, from AI to the American right and Greek drama to goth culture.
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I finally understand that friendships change
Life got in the way of the fantasies my closest friends and I created in childhood – but now I…
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From Neel Mukherjee to Gavin Stamp: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Sunken Lands by Gareth E Rees and The Spinning House by Caroline Biggs.
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Subscriber of the Week: Eamonn Rafferty
Please email zuzanna.lachendro@newstatesman.co.uk if you would like to be featured.
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Josie Long Q&A: “I wish Keir Starmer had a functioning spine”
The stand-up comedian on Joanna Newsom, expressionism, and the dream of being a forest ranger.
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A reckoning for the British Museum
Haunted by scandal, the museum has become a “black hole” for artefacts. It’s time to bring it down, says Noah…
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The contested afterlife of Amy Winehouse
In her life and music, she was beyond confessional. Can Sam Taylor-Johnson’s biopic tell us more about her than she…
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This England: Del Boy’s Digs
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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What went wrong with The Regime?
In HBO’s political satire, every line sinks like a stone, and every episode lasts for a year.
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Alex Garland’s Civil War is his sharpest, most brutal dystopia
The British director’s film imagines a present day America that has fallen into internecine violence.
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Women writers and the lure of deep England
The country lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann were studies in class, conflict and creativity.
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The cost of climbing Everest
A new Radio 4 series reveals the stark and deadly reality of conquering the world’s highest mountain.
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The West’s useful idiots
The solipsism and self-censorship of the campus intelligentsia has spread throughout society. But demand for instruction in progressive doublespeak is…
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