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Down and Out: the Movie – in cinemas not quite yet
A film project based on these columns could change my life. Or not…
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As anti-Semitism surges, tolerance resurfaces at unexpected moments
Also this week: The enduring glamour of America, and the agony of clichés.
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The great wine climate-change challenge
As the planet warms this century, so wine-production regions and qualities will evolve with it.
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Letter of the week: How a nation sees itself
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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Is this election beyond satire?
With the Tories writing their own punchlines, the jokes in Michael Spicer: No Room are all too plausible.
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Douglas Is Cancelled: finally, a funny cancel culture comedy
Steven Moffat’s delicious satire is unafraid to take aim at youthful snowflakes and puritans.
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Sunak’s shrinking campaign: from the door of No 10 to doorsteps in his constituency…
Your weekly dose of gossip from the campaign trail.
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This England: Rice to see you
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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The Labour moment
Keir Starmer’s party has embraced the positions that we have long advocated on the economy, foreign policy and globalisation.
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The Lammy Doctrine
Labour’s foreign-secretary-in-waiting on why Britain must adapt to the world as it is, not as liberals wish it to be.
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Jeremy Corbyn’s last stand
In Islington North, the veteran agitator is in battle against the party he once led.
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Jonathan Reynolds: Business and the centre left are natural partners
The shadow business secretary on Labour’s transformed relationship with industry.
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“I’ve done more than anyone else to defeat the far right in Britain”
Nigel Farage calls himself the “Billy Graham” of politics and believes his right English populism can destroy the Conservatives.
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Why we get the wrong leaders
History reveals what drives the ambitions of would-be Caesars – and how we can counter them.
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Labour’s women problem
Keir Starmer must accept that JK Rowling is right.
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Russia’s great-power complex
Whether acting as an adversary or a partner to the West, the Kremlin has long yearned for recognition and respect.
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The Bikeriders looks cool – but feels pointless
Jeff Nichols’s study of Sixties biker gang culture is full of beauty, glamour and Austin Butler in a leather jacket.…
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Mark Rutte’s next move
Following a bitter dispute about asylum seekers, the 13-year premiership of “Teflon Mark” has finally ended.
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The plain-speaking appeal of Nigel Farage
Voters are turning to the Reform leader because he tells a story that chimes with their lives.
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