The Chancellor’s biggest budget giveaway is to his own re-election campaign
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Letter of the week: Reframing farming
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The economic consequences of the miners’ strike
The NUM’s defeat in 1985 marked the end of the social democratic era – and the creation of the market…
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Steve Reed: “Farmers feel shafted by this government”
The shadow environment secretary on what voters want and how to make Labour the “party of the countryside”.
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Britain’s fiscal fantasies
Rather than address a broken public realm and long-term economic stagnation, the Conservatives have chosen to prioritise tax cuts.
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Michael Sheen: Why Kemi Badenoch is wrong about Port Talbot
The actor on arguing with the Tory MP, going on stage in pyjamas, and his new series The Way.
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From John Berger to Jenny Kleeman: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Power Up by Yasmin Ali and Ghost Pains by Jessica Jezewska Stevens.
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Rishi Sunak’s paranoid talk of “extremists” is dangerous for us all
Fringe politicians from George Galloway to the hard right are trying make Islamism a big election issue. For decency and…
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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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