A box of family photos pulls me into the past
Looking at pictures with my siblings, time seems to collapse in on itself.
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A nonconforming take on The Nutcracker
The Southbank Centre puts a refreshing new twist on the most established of theatrical traditions.
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Saltburn is a class satire without bite
Emerald Fennell’s story of an Oxford student who infiltrates the aristocracy values style over depth.
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Why we chose Benjamin Myers’s Cuddy as the Goldsmiths Prize winner
The time-travelling story about faith, nationhood and the north upends preconceptions of the “historical novel”.
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Subscriber of the Week: Ruth Wills
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This England: Refreshing data
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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The Iran Trap
Why Israel and the West are running out of time.
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The celebrity chef is dead
In the era of the post-heroic kitchen, the restaurant prevails as the brand over the celebrity’s name.
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Progressives dream of tyranny
Millions of young people identify with movements that repress the freedoms they take for granted.
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Letter of the week: Starmer’s struggle
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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Michael Gove is considering stepping down to avoid a “Portillo moment”
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Pia Sinha: how criminal gangs are taking over prisons
The ex-prison governor and justice reformer on a crumbling British penal system.
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Rachel Reeves would be foolish to adopt “Bidenomics” in the UK
The policy’s core is reindustrialisation, but industry requires highly skilled labour. Where do these people come from?
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The Age of Fury
The radiating consequences of the Israel-Hamas war are being felt across European cities.
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Why did Brian Cox agree to this terrible James Bond reality show?
If Anthony Hopkins had been announced as the new face of Eggheads, I could hardly be more appalled.
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Where are the leaders who can tell us who we are?
Political vision is not a frippery but the hardest thing any politician can do.
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Jon Lansman: what the left gets wrong about Israel
The Momentum founder on his kibbutznik past, how progressives should respond to anti-Semitism and Jeremy Corbyn’s mistakes.
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The madness of Burton and Taylor
Roger Lewis’s book about the lives of the married actors isn’t really a biography – it’s a fever dream.
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How the culture wars infiltrated the countryside
Wander out into England’s green and pleasant land and it won’t be long before you come across evidence of the…
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How women were left out of the story of evolution
A radical new history argues that human society was shaped not by hunter-gatherer skills but the bodies of our female…
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