Brexit has made the EU less liberal and open
Brussels’ embrace of protectionism is a problem for those who yearn for closer ties with Europe.
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Coco Chanel’s second coming
The V&A’s exhibition focuses on the designer’s clothes – with little attention given to her equally spectacular life.
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Why we should be worried by the new Covid wave
With the emergence of a highly mutated Omicron variant, policies for controlling the virus deserve our renewed attention.
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Laura Kuenssberg’s State of Chaos: a parade of strange and idiotic people
Watching this series about British politicians , you wonder how they made it to the cabinet – or out of…
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Who makes history?
A study of postwar British politics overstates the influence of its leading personalities.
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Bernie Taupin: good lyricist, bad writer
The songs he wrote with Elton John may be works of art. His bloated memoir is not.
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Lorrie Moore’s Q&A: “US gun regulation should be a public health policy”
The author and critic on epidemiology, the joy of wine and coffee, and the soul of Abraham Lincoln.
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My latest ailment is Mild Exasperation With Everything
Is there a cure? Perhaps buying nine of the 12 volumes of the Scott Moncrieff translation of Proust will help.
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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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