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The crisis of conservatism
Our guide to the 50 most influential people in conservative politics features free-marketeers alongside post-liberal thinkers.
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The New Statesman’s right power list
The 50 most influential people shaping Britain’s conservative politics.
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The meanwhile space deception
Temporary neighbourhood gimmicks are turning your next home into a Potemkin village.
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Rishi Sunak is out of time
It is too late for the Prime Minister to unite a divided and directionless Conservative Party.
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This England: Lost in the post box
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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Requiem for a world war
Jeremy Eichler’s Time’s Echo shows how four great 20th-century composers captured the horrors of conflict.
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Desperation is turning the centre right against green politics
As populist parties’ influence grows, the consensus around Europe’s climate change agenda is crumbling.
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The tragedy of John Mearsheimer
How the American realist became the world’s most hated thinker.
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Who owns your face?
How the shadowy start-up Clearview sold the power of facial recognition to corporations and states across the globe.
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ITV’s The Long Shadow trivialises the crimes of Peter Sutcliffe
For all its professed sensitivity, this drama turns the most terrible crimes committed against women into mere entertainment. I’m sad…
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How England lost the Hundred Years War
The final part of Jonathan Sumption’s epic history reveals the complacency that led to the end of English power in…
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Nadiya Hussain’s Q&A: “Some of my happiest moments happened during lockdown”
The chef and television presenter on Alicia Keys, the joy of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! and…
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I found a fox inside my home – I’m hoping it’s good luck
Standing between the sofa and the bookcase he looked completely wrong and out of place. He knew it too.
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From Duncan Hamilton to Lydia Kiesling: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring The Story of Scandinavia by Stein Ringen and Big Meg by Tim and Emma Flannery.
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Ancient wisdom helps me survive a storm, but does little for my laptop
My computer is my window on the world. I go to ridiculous lengths to protect it.
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Bronze Age Pervert will not save the American right
The author of Bronze Age Mindset has galvanised US conservatives – but his adolescent philosophy will soon be forgotten.
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Ken Loach’s turn to sentimentality
In the 87-year-old director’s new film The Old Oak, wishful liberal thinking comes at the cost of plausibility.
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This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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A fan’s loyalty is unwavering – unlike the players they support
Life is about endless upheavals, but some – like Harry Kane in lederhosen – are hard to take.
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