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Taipei’s tipping point

Ahead of the presidential election in January, Taiwanese officials know that keeping China calm is a delicate balancing act.

By Bruno Maçães

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Labour is breaking with a failed economic consensus

Labour is breaking with a failed economic consensus

Claire Ainsley

The Weekend Essay

The life and crimes of Henry K

Noah Kulwin

Sustainable Business

Refurbishing existing office space could support businesses and help the planet

Quickfire

Comment and analysis from our writers

Jonn Elledge

Sunak’s insistence he’s in control only proves he’s not

Anoosh Chakelian

Why the immigration minister job has been split in two

Chris Deerin

Humza Yousaf should bring back Kate Forbes

Lewis Goodall

Rishi Sunak only has himself to blame for his humiliation

David Gauke

The Tory right is at war with reality

Katie Stallard

Democracy in the era of deepfakes

Freddie Hayward

Conservative MPs have given up on the next election

Politics

How long can Rishi Sunak survive?

The Tory MPs who have lost patience with the Prime Minister span the entire party.

By Rachel Cunliffe

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Kate Forbes: The rooted nomad

The New Statesman Interview

Kate Forbes: The rooted nomad

Jason Cowley

Kate Forbes: The SNP must repeal power-sharing deal with the Greens

Jason Cowley

Rishi Sunak should stop trying to appease the Tory right

Why Labour may be forced to rejoin the European single market

Andrew Marr

In 2024, Labour must offer hope

In 2024, Labour must offer hope

Andrew Marr

It’s time to rebut the lockdown sceptics

David Gauke

World

The new world disorder

A new binary of opposing powers has emerged, with the forces of chaos, expansion and anti-Semitism ranged against a West committed to the status quo.

By Robert D Kaplan

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The case for an Atlantic Union

The case for an Atlantic Union

Michael Lind

Vivek Ramaswamy’s manic pixie dream campaign

Charlotte McDonald-Gibson

The Israel-Iran endgame

Katie Stallard

Putin still wants to win

Lawrence Freedman

Emmanuel Macron does not understand France

Emmanuel Macron does not understand France

Christophe Guilluy

Lapland: a prisoner of geography

Megan Gibson

Ideas

Who is to blame?

Slavoj Žižek

The Weekend Essay

Britain’s eternal decline

Andrew Gamble

The new authoritarian personality

The new authoritarian personality

Oliver Nachtwey and Carolin Amlinger

The Weekend Essay

On the responsibility of intellectuals

George Scialabba

Monster of the mainstream

Quinn Slobodian

The dark prophet of our times

The Weekend Essay

The dark prophet of our times

Samuel Earle

Books and Culture

What it means to be German

Frank Trentmann’s history reveals how modern Germany found a new moral purpose after the horrors of Nazism.

By Brendan Simms

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Benjamin Zephaniah: “My first racist attack was a brick in the back of the head“

Benjamin Zephaniah: “My first racist attack was a brick in the back of the head“

New Statesman

Bill Gates is bad for humanity

The Culture Interview

Paul Lynch: “Nothing kills a book quicker than a writer with a message”

Pippa Bailey

Book of the Day

Sarina Wiegman’s mystery playbook

Emma John

The techno-optimist fallacy

The techno-optimist fallacy

Mark O’Connell

In search of the meaning of sport

Lola Seaton

Business and Economics

The Weekend Report

The town that was gambled away

Anoosh Chakelian

Zombie news: the strange resurrection of the local paper

Will Dunn

Asset managers won’t fix the climate crisis

Asset managers won’t fix the climate crisis

Will Dunn

The UK housing crash is just beginning

Will Dunn

The Greensill scandal is far from over

Duncan Mavin

OpenAI has executed its turbulent priests

OpenAI has executed its turbulent priests

Will Dunn

Spotlight on Policy

Spotlight on Policy

The Policy Ask with Daniel Gorman: “We are in a human rights emergency”

Spotlight

Economic Growth

Inflation can’t be blamed on a “wage-price spiral”

Chris Hayes

Ed Miliband at Cop28: Under Sunak, the UK can't credibly call for fossil fuel phase-out

Ed Miliband at Cop28: Under Sunak, the UK can’t credibly call for fossil fuel phase-out

Polly Bindman and Nick Ferris

The UK must choose: the past, or our future

Ian Cheshire

We’re telling the wrong story about climate policy

Megan Kenyon

Where have all the rebel councils gone?

Where have all the rebel councils gone?

Jack Shaw

Podcasts

Is British democracy under threat? With Armando Iannucci | Westminster Reimagined

Westminster Reimagined

Is British democracy under threat? With Armando Iannucci | Westminster Reimagined

The collapse of rentier capitalism

The collapse of rentier capitalism

The most misleading phrases in political journalism

The most misleading phrases in political journalism

Tories shaken by record high migration

Tories shaken by record high migration

The Long Read

What it means to be Jewish now

What it means to be Jewish now

With anti-Semitism rising and divisions on the left over the Gaza war, writers reflect on being Jewish now.

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