Labour minister gets an apology over “no money” note – 13 years late
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George Orwell in an age of moralists
Should we stop measuring the great English writer by today’s standards?
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America’s real-life crime thriller
Also this week: why journalists should back Hollywood’s strikes.
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A continent drifts
Europe’s politics have stalled. In an age of crisis, the EU needs a new generation of far-sighted leaders.
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Dale Vince: “The unions don’t get it”
The green energy entrepreneur on why he funds Just Stop Oil.
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The Picasso problem
Fifty years after the artist’s death, the cult of genius that hid his flaws offers less protection.
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Summer of Light: a tale of art and betrayal in 1920s Venice
A new short story by the prize-winning novelist Jonathan Coe.
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Letter of the week: The wrong kind of growth
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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With its impossible rents, London is trying to spit me out
In June I replied to 22 adverts on SpareRoom and made it through to five viewings. The competition is wild.
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Watching Carlos Alcaraz at Wimbledon, I witnessed something startlingly new
From ball one the 20-year-old was in ebullient battle mode – tearing up the grass and flipping defiant defence into…
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Subscriber of the Week: Waterstones Dad
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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Why Elon Musk killed the Twitter bird
The tech billionaire wants “X” to become the centre of the internet.
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This England: Collars and cuffs
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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The Power of Parker captures the particular quirks of Nineties northern England
Sian Gibson and Paul Coleman’s new series is comic perfection – but perhaps not everyone will find it funny.
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Virginia Woolf’s living book
The writer’s diaries reveal a mind striving to capture the elusive moment.
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Tony Blair: “If I was back in front-line politics…”
Labour’s former prime minister on the AI revolution, the curse of Brexit and what Keir Starmer must do to win.
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The age of digital outrage
The internet was once seen as a tool to promote empathy – so how did it come to amplify division…
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Mysteries of the owl and octopus
A new school of natural history seeks to understand the deep intelligence of the Earth’s most enigmatic creatures.
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Two nights in Manchester, and my summer is complete
A sublime evening of torch songs, and managing not to ruin Maxine Peake’s one-woman show – that’s my idea of…
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Julia Donaldson Q&A: “I have wonderful memories of busking in Siena”
The author of The Gruffalo on Schubert, her love of botany, and the importance of never being caught short.
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