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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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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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 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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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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When my baseball cap blew off I lost much more than a hat
My experiences in storms suggest that I was put here for a purpose. If so, what is it?
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Mike Brearley: “I would hum Beethoven as Michael Holding ran in to bowl”
The former cricketer on his memories of the Second World War, Barack Obama and literary festivals.
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From Paul Auster to Kelly and Zach Weinersmith: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Reckoning by V and Eyeliner by Zahra Hankir.
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The horrors of the Upskirt Decade
In a new book on the vicious media misogyny of the Noughties, the recent past has never felt more remote.
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“Associate” medics were meant to assist doctors, not replace them
GP practices have been able to hire physician associates, and what they are allowed to do has gone under the…
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Anatomy of a Fall is a Hitchcockian thriller with depth
Justine Triet’s superb work of psychological suspense elevates the genre.
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Sam Bankman-Fried and the effective altruism delusion
Will the idealist philosophy survive the conviction of its crypto king?
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Does AI know you better than you know yourself?
As stretched mental health services turn to tech solutions, Silicon Valley is cashing in – with sometimes alarming consequences.
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Could Hezbollah’s leader ignite a regional war?
Hassan Nasrallah's forces are poised on Israel's border. Is he about to open a new front in the conflict?
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Tzipi Livni: “A ceasefire isn’t a solution”
Israel’s former foreign minister on how the Gaza conflict could end.
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Subscriber of the Week: Daniel Tierney
Please email zuzanna.lachendro@newstatesman.co.uk if you would like to be featured.
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This England: To wake the dead
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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