From Tom Holland to Deborah Bonello: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring The Bay by Julia Rampen and Nowhere To Run by Jonathan Sayer.
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Russia’s war on the future
Unable to defeat Ukraine on the battlefield, Vladimir Putin is targeting the next generation.
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The new politics of migration
As conflicts multiply European countries must agree consistent principles for asylum policy, as the alternative is anarchy.
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The Rest is Football should be sent off
Gary Lineker’s new podcast offers a stale standard of analysis that barely hovers above that offered by the drunkest bar-propper…
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Labour’s caution could turn to radicalism in office
If Keir Starmer makes it to No 10, he will inherit a nation in crisis.
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This England: That takes the cake
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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Henpocalypse! How did this painful dildo-wielding comedy make it to air?
I can’t remember the last time I endured a show as relentlessly laboured as this steaming dollop of faux-feminist puerility.…
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Why is the far right surging in Germany?
Economic and social marginalisation is pushing voters towards the AfD.
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Catherine Taylor’s The Stirrings: a memoir of girlhood in a time of rebellion
These reflections of 1970s Sheffield are steeped in the Cold War and the shadow of the Yorkshire Ripper.
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My once feckless brother has landed my dream life
As teenagers he got detentions and I ran for head girl – but now he’s doing rather a better job…
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At five foot nothing and ex-SAS, P— was considerably more menacing than his height
I can’t recommend not being abducted and murdered strongly enough. It makes life so much easier.
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Gina Martin Q&A: “The fear of societal collapse can feel like torture”
The activist on climate change, Lucian Freud, and how The Basement Yard on YouTube keeps her joyful.
ByThe human era is ending
Artificial intelligence poses a profound challenge to our humanness.
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Lie With Me is a wildly romantic story of lost love
Olivier Peyon’s new film, adapted from a bestselling gay romance, knows how an early relationship can determine a life.
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Alexander Lukashenko: The broker of Belarus
The Belarussian dictator has entangled himself further in Russia’s war.
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The 15 best books for summer 2023
The New Statesman’s selection of essential recent releases.
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A baffling but brilliant ride through Birmingham’s surrealist scene
Stewart Lee’s Radio 4 documentary on the city’s artistic past is jarring, hard to follow and utterly engaging.
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Keir Starmer, take note: voters want conviction, not austerity redux
On election day, will we think that he fought with passion or shrugged and gave up?
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Why biological sex matters
Some argue that lived experience and personal choice trump biology – but they are wrong.
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The gender binary is false
We should question a mindset that viciously excludes whole groups of people.
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