David Scheel Q&A: “I studied octopuses from a yellow submarine”
The marine biologist on the Beatles, eliminating single-use plastic, and animal self-awareness.
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A world built on sand
Ed Conway’s Material World shows that despite our digital lives it is rocks and minerals that power the global economy.
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And Just Like That… is a woke horror show
The Sex and the City sequel is a combination of glib identity politics and extreme shopping – and it’s impossible…
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Can Labour inspire hope?
The sense of fatalism across the country means that the party’s education plan is its most important initiative.
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Austerity is about to return to Europe
The political fallout from the reimposition of the EU’s fiscal rules will be toxic.
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Why cricket is the most moving art
It is complex and it is gladiatorial – yet farce and comedy are never far away during even the most…
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When war comes to Wimbledon
As Russian competitors return to SW19, the Ukrainian player Sergiy Stakhovsky continues to fight on the front line.
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“We’re all Blairites now” in the Labour Party
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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The Crossbow Killer attempts to fathom an unfathomable act
Meic Parry’s investigation into the 2019 murder of Gerald Corrigan is well-researched but unnecessarily gory in detail.
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The Bank of England is complicit in the Tories’ economic failures
Andrew Bailey incurs the public’s wrath for today’s economic pain, but his predecessors have questions to answer as well.
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My night out in Colchester
Also this week: the worst margarita of our lives, and Russia’s hot-dog rebels.
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Letter of the week: Our carbon dependency
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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Subscriber of the week: John Margerison
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France’s forces of law and disorder
French police have declared themselves “at war” with rioters. How did the state’s protectors become a threat to its future?
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This England: Getting it in the neck
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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Broke Britannia
Britain is trapped in a cycle of inflation and economic pain. What will it take to break it?
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The rotten heart of the French republic
The crisis in France only benefits the hard right, who will exploit it to reshape French politics.
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From Leïla Slimani to Laura Cumming: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Penance by Eliza Clark and White Hot by Matt Roller and Tim Wigmore.
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Politicians can no longer count on low inflation to mask the structural flaws of the British economy.
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The left must embrace law and order
In France and elsewhere, everyday insecurity hurts the poor much more than the rich.
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