I crave human contact, mainly with someone in Sky’s technical department
With its awful hold music and bot-driven customer service, no one could have predicted the Rise of the Machines would…
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In “sniper’s alley” well-being is all about feeling in control
Apparently I should be eating 30 plants a week. It’s a plan I can get behind.
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The Tory party’s theatre of hate
The Conservatives are dissolving into bitter factions. Can anyone hold the party together as it nears defeat?
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From Lyndsey Stonebridge to Sophie Elmhirst: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Spent Light by Lara Pawson and Moral AI And How We Get There.
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Israel is pushing Palestinians to the edge
With its military focusing on Rafah, Netanyahu’s government has spoken of large numbers of Palestinians being forced to leave the…
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The prime minister for victims
Britain is a nation beset by trauma, and Keir Starmer’s role will be to assuage it.
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The unlikely refuge of British supermarkets
As libraries and community centres disappear, retail spaces are becoming the last resort of people seeking connection.
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No country for old men?
As a Trump vs Biden rematch looms, the US prepares for a second term with an octogenarian in the Oval…
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Letter of the week: Treated like royalty
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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Europe’s new age of insecurity
In the era of Trumpian politics, the US’s allies must fortify and regroup: they can no longer rely on the…
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Scottish nationalism finds a new home in the House of Lairds
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Meeting Vladimir Putin
Also this week: The art of the political interview, and what’s next for the Telegraph takeover.
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The making of an American conservative
Rob Henderson’s memoir Troubled paints a bleak picture of poverty in the US. Are liberal “luxury beliefs” to blame?
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Byron’s war on tranquillity
A new biography reveals how the poet’s life of extremes was echoed by the hyperactive irony of his work.
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How indecision turned toxic for Labour in Rochdale
Dithering over Azhar Ali’s by-election campaign has reignited the anti-Semitism row and damaged Keir Starmer’s public image.
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Sex in the age of digital desire
The proliferation of online pornography has degraded the way we view our bodies and relationships.
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Edwardians like us
In Little Englanders, Alwyn Turner reveals striking parallels between Britain in decline at the start of the 20th century and…
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Tristram Hillier, England’s quiet surrealist
The painter’s immaculate pictures of an off-kilter world are works of concentration and contemplation.
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Seyi Obakin Q&A: “I yearn for a government that will end homelessness”
The charity leader on great team spirit, investigative shows and optimism.
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Subscriber of the week: Alastair Beattie
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