The Trumpian end of the liberal world order
With the former president’s return the West may finally be released from its mission impossible.
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Labour’s quandary: should that £28bn go in recycling or straight to landfill?
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Sheryl Sandberg: “Ending hate on social media will cost billions”
The first woman on Facebook’s board – and the co-author of Lean In – on Hamas’s 7 October attack and…
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Letter of the week: Windfall power
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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Opera singer David Butt Philip on how Brexit is impacting British musicians
Could the world-beating tenor be one of the UK’s last great singers to build a career in Europe?
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Netflix’s One Day is a romcom without any chemistry
With its bland universality in place of electricity or charm, this adaptation feels unconvincing and embarrassing.
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Miriam Cates: the radical traditionalist
Once a Labour Party member, the devout Christian and anti-woke campaigner is now one of the most controversial Tories in…
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Britain’s ailing body politic
It is to be hoped that, following his cancer diagnosis, King Charles makes a full and fast recovery. It is…
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From Paul Strathern to Kerry Hudson: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Parasol Against the Axe by Helen Oyeyemi and James and John by Chris Bryant.
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In praise of sluggish politics
Deliberation and reversals are democracy’s great virtues, writes Jonathan White. But can it keep pace with a world in crisis?
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The invention of the Teddy boy
How the subculture emerged from postwar London’s tribal landscape of fashion, class and violence.
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Thomas Hardy’s life of desire
Why did the great novelist of female attraction create such misery in his marriages?
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American Fiction is a bold and bracing satire of publishing’s race problem
Cord Jefferson’s adaptation of Percival Everett’s 2001 novel Erasure shows the “African-American experience” as far richer than it’s often allowed…
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Marcus du Sautoy Q&A: “As a child, I planned to marry Top Cat”
The mathematician and author on his love of symmetry, classical music and board games.
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Lessons from The World of Yesterday
Stefan Zweig’s 1942 portrait of the late Austro-Hungarian empire remains a stark warning against taking national security for granted.
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Subscriber of the week: Peter Phillips
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Feminism has always been complicated – just ask the women of the Seventies
A short film at Tate Britain is a reminder of the glorious energy and contradictions of the women’s liberation movement.
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The reward for looking after my mother? A dose of norovirus
I am floored by GI problems – which is what we people who have doctors in the family call gastrointestinal…
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The Rhapsody in Blue revolution
First performed 100 years ago, George Gershwin’s great experiment defined the jazz age and took popular music in a new…
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The journalist vs the trolls
In Marianna Spring’s series Why Do You Hate Me?, the BBC social media correspondent finds fellowship and reconciliation amid the…
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