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 England: Buried treasure
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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The NS Poem: chorus
A new poem by Andrew McMillan.
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Subscriber of the week: Dennis O’Brien
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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From Ben Lerner to Simon Heffer: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang and Stay True by Hua Hsu.
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The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers redux
The 20th century’s most influential history book foresaw the collapse of the Soviet Union and rise of China. Thirty-five years…
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Saudi Arabia’s crown prince understands the modern world. His Western suitors do not
Mohammed bin Salman resembles no one so much as the prince from Machiavelli’s manual of statecraft.
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How the MeToo backlash helped Russell Brand
Also this week: Bring on by-election season, and my predictions for Strictly Come Dancing.
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The rise and fall of Russell Brand
The decadent Britain of the 2000s was the perfect place for the comedian-cum-pseudo intellectual to thrive.
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Frans Hals and the will to life
Where Rembrandt painted introspection, the Haarlem portraitist showed people as social creatures.
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In power, Labour will have to act like a wartime cabinet
Would an “activist” Starmer government have what it takes to rebuild Britain’s collapsing infrastructure?
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Mikhaila Peterson’s life at the molten core of the culture wars
At the key moments in the drama of Jordan Peterson, his daughter is usually there.
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Russell Brand’s career was defined by misogyny – and audiences delighted in it
What a comedian chooses to joke about is revealing – and has a bearing on the world at large.
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The progressive dilemma
The anxieties and insecurities of the present moment are a formidable challenge for the centre left – in Britain and…
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