This England: Possessive signs
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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This year, all I want for Christmas is normality
My father will sit, happy and well, at the centre of my family’s celebrations. And that is all that matters.
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BBC radio’s Gangster is true crime without the tawdriness
The story of the Burger Bar Boys is recent history as seen through the eyes of a Birmingham community living…
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Facing blowback from James Dyson
Also this week: Taking on the tech giants, and remembering Terry Venables, football’s great showman.
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Next stop Nato for Lord Cameron?
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Letter of the week: Precedent for pipsqueaks
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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Wayne Barnes: How I deal with the death threats
As a top-flight rugby referee, the English lawyer has faced some of the worst abuse imaginable. Now he is lobbying…
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The immigration dilemma
The UK’s political parties vie to sound “tough” on immigration while ignoring the policy choices required to reduce it.
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All roads lead to Thaxted
England’s folk traditions live on in the small town in rural north Essex, inspired by the Christian socialism of one…
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Anti-migrant protests are tearing Ireland apart
As hostility towards foreigners rises, the feted land of a thousand welcomes has slowly become an unhappy isle.
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Geert Wilders’ victory is a dire threat to the EU
The uncooperative presence of a populist-led Netherlands could wreck Brussels’ flagship legislative projects.
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The Amazon guide to burnout
Kristi Coulter’s account of her 12-year career at the tech firm lays bare the toxic work culture of the 2010s.
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Can Telegraph grandees halt the sale of the paper to the UAE?
The tension between global markets and the sanctity of British institutions has been exposed again.
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Why the British Museum should return the Elgin Marbles
Also this week: a night with U2 in Sin City and the courage of Salman Rushdie.
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The post-language world
Tech visionaries may dream of a wordless future, but even Elon Musk cannot disrupt the communal power of speech.
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The techno-optimist fallacy
Robert Skidelsky is right to warn about the delusions of our tech overlords – but his critique of Silicon Valley…
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Ezra Pound’s experiments in sound
The poet’s music revealed his impulse to innovate and disrupt. Did it also hasten his slide towards fascism?
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From Elton John to Wendy Cope: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Tremor by Teju Cole and A Woman I Know by Mary Haverstick.
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How I almost became a Young Conservative
Thatcherism was seemingly never-ending and I was a young freelancer, desperate for ideas.
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Bertie Carvel’s Q&A: “Our world would be poorer without Sesame Street”
The actor on Star Wars, his past life as a sailor, and living inside a pointillist painting.
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