Ricardo Nuila’s Q&A: “I need to be nicer to my family”
The doctor and author on falling in love, The Simpsons, and the caring side of Sasanian King of Kings.
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Be more tree
We admire trees for their solitary strength, but it is their remarkable facility for collaboration and sharing that provides lessons…
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Paul Schrader’s Master Gardener is inexcusably nasty – and yet I loved it
This story of an ex-white supremacist and a mixed-race woman tending to the grounds of a former plantation will make…
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Do we need another political podcast?
The Power Test, co-hosted by Ayesha Hazarika and Sam Freedman, will delight Westminster obsessives.
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Britain’s Brexit divisions are re-emerging
This time, inflation is the battleground.
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Subscriber of the week: Neville Shulman
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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Brain surgery in a warzone
For Ukrainians, victory is inevitable – but in the country’s hospitals, it is clear that winning the war will come…
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Will Jeremy Corbyn agree to step aside in Islington North?
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Letter of the week: The case against Starmer
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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Can Linda Yaccarino save Twitter?
However competent the new CEO is, the biggest obstacle in her efforts to turn Twitter around will be Elon Musk’s…
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This England: Uninvited gusts
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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The New Statesman’s left power list
The 50 most influential people shaping Britain’s progressive politics.
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The new left power brokers
Our guide to the 50 most influential people in progressive politics features leading Labour names, radical leftists and less partisan…
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Zelensky is fighting two wars – against Russia and to win over the West
Ukraine’s coming counter-offensive is the best chance to prove to its supporters it can still win.
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As Conservative MPs descend into civil war, even Nigel Farage says Brexit has failed
Tory infighting over immigration and other issues is a proxy debate about the true meaning of leaving the EU.
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Europe’s false dawn
After the revolutions of 1848, liberals helped create a conservative international order that has shaped the world since.
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Is “National Conservatism” a dead end for the Tories, or a sign of what is to come?
Rishi Sunak may be tempted by an ideology of muscular nationalism – but he would risk alienating British voters.
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Being in pain is bad enough, but being a woman in pain is even worse
Endometriosis, appendicitis, fractured vertebrae, and now my mother’s knee injury: why aren’t women taken seriously when they say they are…
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How Big Tech made us screen addicts
Gaia Bernstein’s Unwired argues that smart devices are engineered to keep our children hooked. Can we hold the industry to…
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Steeltown Murders left me bored and furious
There are countless other series just like this true crime drama. Is it any wonder I found it so wearying,…
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