Ruth Wilson’s The Second Woman is a mesmerising feat of endurance
Over 24 hours, as Wilson played the same scene with 100 different actors, the repetition became addictive – and profound.
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Britain’s care deficit
By relegating the elderly and sick to the margins of life, we ignore the fact that one day we will…
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Some birthday… my shoulder is so bad I cannot pull a cork from a bottle
The pills might as well be Smarties, the gel salad cream. So booze it is.
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The patriotic preacher
Martin Luther King was no saint, but a deep faith in America drove his mission to redeem its soul.
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Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland reveals the madness of sectarianism
James Bluemel’s documentary series may be the best television ever made about Northern Ireland’s Troubles.
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After two years of therapy I have decided that where I am is good enough
There have been few dramatic revelations; it has all been rather gentle.
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Shakespeare’s race problem
The playwright reflected the prejudices of his age, but he also questioned and undermined them.
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Keir Starmer: This is what I believe
Why we need a new mission-driven politics to renew Britain and defeat the enemies of progress.
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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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