How Big Tech rewired childhood
Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation shows how smartphones have damaged the teenage mind – and urges us to fight back.
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This England: Paws clause paused
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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Love’s true test is being cast adrift on a tiny raft in the Pacific
An amazing tale of survival reminds me how incredibly hard it is to find love out there in the world.
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How Amber Heard lost
Who Trolled Amber?, a new investigative series from Tortoise, asks: was the social media response to the trial a coordinated…
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Accused: The Hampstead Paedophile Hoax terrified me
Channel 4’s chilling account of a paedophile scare shows the very modern hell unleashed by online conspiracy theories.
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War and the West Bank
Settler violence in the occupied territory is intensifying, and Palestinian deaths are mounting.
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The NS Poem: The Late Stelliferous Era
A new poem by Will Eaves.
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How a radical priest forged my politics
Gustavo Gutiérrez’s revelatory book showed me that faith and economics could not be separated.
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Letter of the week: Together we fall
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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What Reform UK says about the condition of England
Under Richard Tice, the right-wing populist party has forced Westminster to pay attention – with poll ratings surpassing those of…
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Rishi Sunak is already irrelevant
The Conservatives are demoralised. Among Tory MPs, all eyes are on their party’s future.
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The West is revealing its hand to Putin
Emmanuel Macron’s threats to send ground troops to Ukraine only exposes Europe’s deepening divisions over the war.
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The deep roots of doctors’ dissent
Disputes between the UK government and its lowest-paid physicians go back decades. They began in 1964, with the creation of…
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From Bridget O’Connor to Grace Blakeley: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring The Performer by Richard Sennett and Cloistered by Catherine Coldstream.
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Demonising rural voters invites defeat for the Democrats
Progressive tropes about the “bigoted” and “undemocratic” countryside undermine Joe Biden’s efforts to win over rural America.
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Amsterdam’s city gardens are a potted paradise
The city’s attitude to urban greening – with its window boxes, community gardening and allotment culture – keeps me coming…
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Lee Anderson’s defection triggers bye-bye elation among Tories
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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The perils of artists’ posthumous fame
Also this week: Philip Larkin’s “ecclesiastical journeys”, and general election date intel.
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Gus O’Donnell: The insider’s guide to preparing for power
The former head of the civil service on the cost of Brexit, the case for electoral reform, and Keir Starmer’s…
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The battle for Keir Starmer’s soul
As Labour prepares for power, two groups on the party’s right are vying to control its future.
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