Daniel Avery’s Q&A: “I’m fascinated by the professional wrestling world”
The electronic music producer and DJ on faith, The Sopranos and culture war fanatics.
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The Windsors is the most painfully accurate depiction of the royals on TV
Forget The Crown – the uncanny veracity of this wild satire rings out like the dinner gong at Balmoral.
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A weekend with old friends turns into a catalogue of injuries – canine and human
The dog seemed distinctly unbothered to be padding around with a bit of her paw wobbling at a right angle;…
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A Thousand and One understands the effects of gentrification
In this sensitive debut about a mother who steals her son from care, AV Rockwell maps the contours of a…
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The brutality of ballet
Alice Robb’s Don’t Think Dear reveals how the elite world of dance exerts a terrible physical and mental toll.
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Jon Ronson’s The Debutante and the myth of the “lone wolf” terrorist
This Audible podcast series delves into the white-supremacist world of Timothy McVeigh and asks: could the Oklahoma City bombing have…
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Subscriber of the week: James Simister
Write to zuzanna.lachendro@newstatesman.co.uk if you would like to feature as subscriber of the week.
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Europe’s centrist parties let industry rot and society fragment. Now they’re being punished for it
In Italy, France, Germany and Britain, the flight of voters to the political extremes can be mapped on to neglected…
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The death of local government
Westminster has been systematically stripping councils of power, funding and stature for decades. As a result, our local politics is…
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The New Age of Tragedy
Great-power rivalry, resource scarcity and the crumbling of the liberal rules-based order.
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Sporting protest terrifies those in power because history tends to prove it right
Campaigners recognise that sport can smash through the fourth wall in a way politics and debate never can.
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Reuniting Everything But the Girl, pop culture’s high priest, and perfecting the art of the selfie
Now our album is being released, I feel like I could cry at any moment – while reaching for the…
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This England: Driven apart
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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Rod Stewart has become an unlikely hero on the left – and it’s all thanks to Carolyn Harris
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Letter of the week: Conservatism’s DNA
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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The end of the liberal delusion
At the turn of the century, Western leaders claimed progress was inevitable. Yet events have contradicted this “faith”.
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The dark heart of the Tory Party
By reckoning with Britain’s nasty side, the Conservatives have claimed its soul.
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John McDonnell’s last stand
The former shadow chancellor is now the only leading Corbynite with the Labour whip. Can he save the party’s left…
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An idiot’s guide to cancel culture
What do we do with the art of monstrous men? Claire Dederer’s flimsy, simplistic new book has no answers.
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Sam Fowles: “So much of public debate is disconnected from the truth”
The barrister on Indiana Jones, David Guetta and why you should always go to the bathroom before going into court.
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