Jeremy Clarke was a supreme chronicler of the hand-to-mouth life
I lament the loss of my fellow down-at-heel columnist. We aren’t the kind that hang around for long.
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Trapped in the generation gap
Jean Twenge’s new study suggests that the young are the losers in a society transformed by technology.
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Emily St John Mandel’s Q&A: “I’m the person you want next to you in an emergency”
The Station Eleven author on Volodymyr Zelensky, mask-wearing and how to stay calm.
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From Elizabeth Winkler to Claire Kilroy: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Cinderella Boys by Leo McKinstry and In Light-Years There’s No Hurry by Marjolijn van Heemstra.
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The inventions of Norman Foster
From museums and airports to bridges and a pissoir, for 60 years the architect has left his stamp on the…
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Britain’s race delusion
Tomiwa Owolade argues that American culture wars obscure black British identity – but are racial borders less fixed than he…
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Susan Sontag’s women problem
In the feminist thinker’s essays of the 1970s, members of her sex are portrayed as political pawns rather than human…
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The black dessert-maker who helped bring ice cream to the masses
More than 170 years after his death, Augustus Jackson is remembered as an American confectionery pioneer.
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The remarkable range of Glenda Jackson
Also this week: admiring the Elgin Marbles, and enduring the rigmarole of chemotherapy.
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At a patronage rate of a peer per fortnight, Liz Truss’s honours list will out-crony Johnson’s
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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This England: The great escape
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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Letter of the week: House rules
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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Subscriber of the week: Sid Stace
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The long-term impact of school closures on children is lockdown’s unspoken horror
Teachers reported children starting school while still in nappies and lacking basic language skills.
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Bridget Christie’s The Change and the rise of menopause media
I’d take Christie’s dark humour over Davina McCall’s washboard stomach any day. But let’s stop pretending the topic is “taboo”.
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Is AI a danger to humanity or our salvation?
The founders of AI are divided over what’s next.
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The race to buy the Telegraph group shows that newspapers are far from done
For the past couple of years the publication has been widely assumed to be in play, following the death of…
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The rise of Waterstones Dad
How the self-made man got lost in the marketplace of ideas.
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The age of cheap money is over
As interest rates surge, Britain needs a new economic model not based on a toxic housing market.
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Culture is everything – and if Labour is to win us over, it needs to rediscover its own
To have a chance of long-term success in office, Keir Starmer needs affection and support.
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