Joe Biden said “America is back”. So why are its foreign allies going their own way?
Former friends to the US are increasingly testing the forms and bounds of the shifting geopolitical geometry.
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Richard Ingrams: “Journalism is a drug: you can’t give it up”
The veteran editor on satire, libel and Private Eye.
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The view from Switzerland, where big business rules
The streets are clean, the trains excellent, the politics consensual. But as the Credit Suisse bailout showed, Switzerland’s ruling class…
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Ali Smith on the groundbreaking art of Lucie Rie
How the Austrian-born ceramicist changed everything possible in pottery.
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Whether sodden bomb or swerving orb, the football has always been a dangerous item
This is a world where “concussion sports law” is already a discipline and a trade.
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Derek Parfit: the perfectionist at All Souls
Brilliant and eccentric, the Oxford philosopher spent his career grappling with fundamental moral questions.
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The pop starlet reinvention wheel
From Madonna to Taylor Swift, the music industry demands that its female artists stay new, young and relevant forever.
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The Night of the 12th: a grim look at an unsolved murder
The director Dominik Moll is known for his tightly-plotted French thrillers. Now, he takes on an unsolved true crime.
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The limits of “female experience” TV
From Dreamland to The Power, shows are still signposting the astonishing revelation that women are complex people, too.
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From Amy Key to Tom Clark: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Eve by Claire Horn and A Stranger in Your Own City by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad.
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The humbling of the SNP
After nearly two decades, the age of nationalist hegemony may be over.
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How Labour lost the moral high ground
Attack ads are fundamental to politics. But the smear campaign against Rishi Sunak is a strategic and moral error.
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This England: Let’s park that
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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What makes an unforgettable meal? The time, place and company – and the butter
The cannellini and chard on toast roars with garlic, but that alone cannot explain its magic.
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Simon Armitage’s Q&A: “One of my faults is that I look for faults in others”
The poet on losing his father, his experience on “celebrity” Mastermind and his love of sports.
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The best children’s books for spring 2023
Find animal magic and globe-trotting thrills in new books for young readers.
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Germany has taken over Britain’s role as leader of the EU’s awkward squad
Olaf Scholz’s insistence on reopening the debate on fuel-driven cars was Cameron-esque in its pettiness and its short-sightedness.
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Jacob Rees-Mogg shuns the barbarians at the gates
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Letter of the week: Parental contribution
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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Searching for the “ghost children” missing from schools
Terri White’s new BBC series examines the impact of lockdowns on the children told to “stay at home”, when home…
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