Bradley Cooper’s thrill-seeking Leonard Bernstein
In Maestro, Cooper emphasises the composer’s ambition and hedonism. But Carey Mulligan is the film’s roaring heart.
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In search of the meaning of sport
A new book shows how sport has shaped British history and society – but cannot explain why it matters as…
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Books of the year 2023
New Statesman writers and guests choose their favourite reading of the year.
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ITV’s Cary Grant drama: chutzpah, desperation or total insanity?
This cheesy series starring Jason Isaacs fails to capture the glamour of Grant and 1960s Hollywood.
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The return of the “longest hatred”
Across the world anti-Semitism is surging, and Jewish people are once again living in fear.
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The flawed logic of progressives’ support for Islamist movements
Western liberals insist on universal human rights – but overlook the brutal rejection of these values by groups they champion.
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This England: Cold press
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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Subscriber of the week: Graham Fulcher
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The NS Poem: Hoops
A new poem by Erica McApline.
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Emmanuel Macron does not understand France
A leading French thinker on the forces of a new movement that is neither left nor right.
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JFK and the myth of the great martyr-saviour
How the assassination of President Kennedy began the age of American conspiracy.
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The Booker Prize is becoming irrelevant
The judging panel hasn’t picked an exciting winner in years because there simply hasn’t been one.
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The lost art of the landline call
Also this week: the ghost of Princess Di, and the end of the Caramac bar.
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What’s printed on Cameron’s ministerial briefs?
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Letter of the week: Peerless foreign secretaries
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The West’s dominance is a dangerous delusion
Hubris and ignorance might prove decisive in its proxy wars in Ukraine and Israel, and in its economic contest with…
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A blunderer in high office
The Covid Inquiry has revealed that Boris Johnson treated Covid with insouciance, even after its lethal potential was known.
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Keir Starmer needs a coherent plan for immigration
The public anxiety about borders is real, and it will still exist under a Labour government.
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The everyday economists guiding Rachel Reeves
The shadow chancellor’s history of women economists raises profound questions about the future of work.
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Bill Gates is bad for humanity
By “maximising” lives, the billionaire philanthropist is making ours worse.
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