My health scare is over, so now there is space for all my other worries
At the moment I am conducting an experiment as to how long I can go without a toaster. It’s been…
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We eat piles of pancakes come Shrove Tuesday, but eschew the Lenten fast
From Welsh crempog to northern havercakes, pancakes were the last hurrah before an abstinence that was good for the soul…
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Who, in this Wild West of contraception, can you trust?
Whatever the method, reading the endless lists of side effects is a preventative in itself.
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The NS Poem: Can dragonflies hurt you?
A new poem by Matt Howard
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The Church is being villainised over the Clapham chemical attack
Religious figures have been drawn into debates over false asylum claims – but it is the process that is flawed.
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How Olaf Scholz lost Germany
German voters have come to distrust their chancellor – but that’s just the start of his problems.
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This England: Get into the groove
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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Labour is haunted by the ghosts of 1997
Also this week: Why Keir Starmer isn’t boring, and dancing with David Miliband.
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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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