How the National Trust won the war on woke
The charity has outsmarted and outmanoeuvred its critics, who are all too easy to caricature as furious cranks and bigots.
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My mother-in-law’s life ended as it began: in a Gazan refugee camp
The last time I saw her was when I left for Egypt. Now, I watch from afar as my family,…
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Rob Henderson: “I guess there is survivor’s guilt”
The writer and thinker on reliving his traumatic childhood, campus cancel culture, and the rise of “luxury beliefs”.
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Priti situations vacant: Tories plot to install Patel as PM
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Letter of the week: Capital errors
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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Sold down the river
England’s broken water industry is a case study in the dangers of dogmatic privatisation. It is time to rethink our…
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Inside the rise of Ziggy Stardust
How a hairdresser from Beckenham entered the court of David Bowie.
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How Britain legalised crime
The UK’s neglected towns have become a haven for criminals while residents try to retain local pride – and police…
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Inside Labour’s foreign policy factory
How Keir Starmer and David Lammy plan to reshape Britain’s role in an age of global upheaval.
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The trauma ward
Each year thousands of women suffer the nightmare of a traumatic birth. I was one of them.
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How to mend a broken economy
The laissez-faire era is over, says Will Hutton – the next Labour government must find growth through intervention.
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Dev Patel’s Monkey Man: political commentary meets bone-crunching action
The British actor-director lets his ambition run wild in this thriller set in a fictional Indian city.
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Natalia Ponomarchuk: “War has its sounds. I recognise them wherever they appear”
The Ukrainian conductor on fleeing Kyiv, Mendelssohn and why “war shows the true faces of people”.
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How the Liverbirds disrupted the rock ’n’ roll boys’ club
The all-female band shone briefly in Sixties Hamburg, but were prevented from flourishing in a male-dominated scene.
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus wants older women to be heard in Wiser Than Me
The second season of the podcast has a stellar guest list, including Billie Jean King, Patti Smith and Julie Andrews.
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After neoliberalism
Across the West, faith in liberal democracy is waning. We need a clear response to the new politics of grievance.
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We must nourish children’s sense of wonder
Nothing is more character-forming than enthusiasm for the natural world, and the openness and attentiveness it fosters.
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Steven Knight’s This Town is a mess
The IRA, Thatcherism, riots, ska, skinheads, alcoholism, racism, the Catholic Church… Is there anything he hasn’t included in this chaotic…
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Subscriber of the week: Mark Baldwin
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Never meet your heroes – unless your hero is Jah Wobble
A close encounter with the legendary bassist leaves me giddy and unsteady on my feet.
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