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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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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