Now mine has been stolen, I realise how personal a phone is
I’ve lived in London for nearly 32 years and this is the first time it has happened to me, and…
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The American XL Bully is a monster created by the internet
The industry driving people to breed the dog is a type of Ponzi scheme, though one that comes with appalling…
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The curse of the cool girl novelist
Her prose is bare, her characters are depressed and alienated. This literary trend has coagulated into parody.
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Keir Starmer’s non-stop Blairisms
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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An audience with media power players in NYC
Also this week: medieval epidemiology, and the scourge of child sex abuse.
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The rise of the new tech right
How the cult of IQ became a toxic ideology in Silicon Valley and beyond.
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The Starmer conundrum
Even those who work with the Labour leader ask: deep down, what does he stand for?
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This England: Not-so namaste
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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Britain is scared of jazz
Ezra Collective is the first ever jazz band to win the Mercury Prize – lifting a curse on a genre…
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We must do more to protect the children of YouTube
Family vloggers profit from invading their offspring’s privacy, and there is barely any regulation of what is shared online.
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Subscriber of the Week: Cecilia Harrison
Please email zuzanna.lachendro@newstatesman.co.uk if you would like to be the New Statesman’s subscriber of the week.
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The return of the free-market right
A year on from her disastrous premiership, Liz Truss and her allies remain unwilling to confront economic truths.
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From Clive Myrie to Danny Cipriani: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring The View From Down Here by Lucy Webster and So To Speak by Terrance Hayes.
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Natasha Walter’s radical inheritance
A daughter’s homage to the mother who had to negotiate family and the urge to activism.
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The Trussites are plotting their comeback
A year after Liz Truss’s chaotic premiership, her inner circle believe their time will come again.
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Richard Osman’s bland Britain
How did the TV presenter’s terminally twee stories of death and Waitrose become the bestselling novels in the UK?
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The Kenneth Branagh-Agatha Christie cinematic universe
In his third reinvention of Hercule Poirot, Branagh lends him new substance, a new moustache – and a new story.
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Please, Davina McCall: leave middle-aged people alone!
Her new dating show My Mum Your Dad left me in a state of almost pure trauma. Will this be…
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How to build a dictionary
A new book identifies the army of amateurs, eccentrics and criminals who created the Oxford English Dictionary.
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Why do business people talk so loudly?
My afternoon treat of whitebait and oysters was ruined when Knob of the Year sat down at the next door…
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