Scrapper is a sickly sweet father-daughter comedy
In Charlotte Regan’s playful but twee debut, a fiercely independent 12-year-old is reunited with her absent young dad.
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Michael Parkinson – The last interview
The veteran talk-show host on broadcasting’s halcyon days, car-crash interviews and today’s “charlatans in high office”.
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Universities are making us stupid
A managerial war is remaking and destroying our once-noble centres of higher education.
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Anarchy unbound: the new scramble for Africa
Caught between climate change, migration and social upheaval, Niger and the Sahel are the crucible of Western failure.
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The NS Poem: Lifelong
A new poem by Will Eaves.
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Why the rich just keep getting richer
Also this week: an oak that will outlive us all and the problem with dogs.
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Subscriber of the Week: Nick Papadopulos
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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Letter of the week: The secondary sex
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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