Bust Britain
As more councils go bankrupt, the nation’s public realm is dying. How did it come to this?
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Alabama’s IVF ruling criminalises women’s bodies
The state’s Supreme Court has decided that frozen embryos are people – with absurd consequences.
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Where the wild things were
Reintroducing wolves, boar and other lost wildlife to Britain is about enriching human lives as well as preserving nature.
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The strange history of the pill
On the podcast Jam Tomorrow, the story of the contraceptive pill begins with American GIs stationed in England and ends…
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The Jury: Murder Trial and the misogyny of the British public
This disquieting Channel 4 series reveals the shocking way some men still talk about women.
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Dune Part 2 is pure spectacle
Denis Villeneuve has finally made Frank Herbert’s novel into a successful franchise, with no self-consciousness – or irony.
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Arik Kershenbaum Q&A: “I’m happiest in a hammock, being woken by gibbon song”
The zoologist on emigrating to the UK, what the Civil War cost America, and the serenity of a world before…
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Subscriber of the week: Jill Rutherford
Please email zuzanna.lachendro@newstatesman.co.uk if you would like to be featured.
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Why would Jürgen Klopp leave Liverpool? Let me count the (made up) ways
His decision to leave was so sudden, something must have tipped him over the edge.
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The wisest investment in your child is not giving them a smartphone
Preserving your child’s ability to focus confers a competitive advantage.
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Welsh food is potted social history
Wales has its own proud and unique cuisine – and it’s not just for St David’s Day.
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Hail to the Brighton bus driver: he could be me
The advert says: “All we ask from you is a driving licence and a smile.” Well, I have a driving…
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Sibelius’s symphony without sequel
The composer lived for 33 years after his Symphony No 7 premiered a century ago. But he could never follow…
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Confessions of a City trader
Gary Stevenson’s rags-to-riches memoir exposes a system where the rich can’t lose and the economy is choked by inequality.
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Europe’s consensus on climate is crumbling
With farmers in revolt and the far right surging, is Ursula von der Leyen about to wreck her own green…
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This England: Chewie couture
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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Mark Drakeford doesn’t understand Wales
The First Minster’s socialism is numb to the realities of Welsh life – just look at farming.
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Elon Musk’s fight against workers’ rights
The billionaire is leading corporate America’s latest assault on working people.
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A travelling tribute to James Baldwin
Also this week: Underdressed in snowy New York, the beauty of book covers, and delighting in London’s diversity.
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Angry Anderson now chairs the Tory party’s Unpopularity Committee
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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