Among my life’s highlights is the time I made Martin Amis slap his thigh with laughter
Ever since then, when I have been feeling down, or stupid, or generally undervalued, I have consoled myself with this…
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The meaning of Essex
Built for commuters, the county created a brash new consumerist identity. But its success has come at a price.
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Reality is a chilling, forensic dramatisation of a whistleblower interrogation
Tina Satter’s verbatim treatment of the FBI’s questioning of a young NSA translator is deeply unsettling.
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A garden should primarily be for enjoyment
New gardeners should first ask themselves how they want their space to feel, before seeking advice on what to grow.
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An insider’s tale of Tory chaos
Whips, a parliamentary romp by the former No 10 adviser Cleo Watson, is fact barely disguised as fiction.
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Letter of the week: Educating Bridget
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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Rebuilding industry is a mistake. The West should focus on economic alliances instead
Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act is laudable, but decades of decline cannot be reversed in a single presidential term.
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Keir Starmer knows his NHS plan will make life harder for a Labour government
The condition of the NHS is not like other political issues, so any politician who promises health reforms had better…
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Skinny jeans, plastics, stress: what’s behind the decline in male fertility?
Why scientists are increasingly concerned about sperm.
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Subscriber of the Week: Peter Reilly
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What makes a witch?
A new BBC Sounds series explores the tangled roots and modern revival of witchcraft.
A transcendent singalong with Bruce Springsteen in Rome
Also this week: great journalists remembered, and a duck called Puskás.
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Suella Braverman is branded a “loose cannon” by unhappy ministers in the Home Office
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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It’s been a dramatic season, but its high point is still to come: Carlisle vs Stockport at Wembley
Man City’s Ederson kicks off the long-awaited, much coveted 27th annual The Fan Awards…
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Ukraine reveals the rise of the non-aligned state
Zelensky left the G7 to a chorus of renewed Western support, but failed to convince the other leaders to choose…
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What Martin Amis taught me
The novelist had no reason to welcome me into his home – but generosity was the thread that connected his…
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This England: Threat of extinction
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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From Guy Gunaratne to the science of allergies: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring M John Harrison's Wish I Was Here and Jonathan Miles on the French Riviera.
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The scourge of greedflation
A fifth of the UK is going hungry. Yet this is a crisis the political class seems unable to grasp.
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The Tory crack-up
Inside the dark new factions intent on taking over the Conservative Party.
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