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Rishi Sunak needs to offer striking workers a better deal

It is not the strikes that should worry ministers most, it is that important public sector posts will be left unfilled.

By David Gauke

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The Meghan and Harry documentary isn’t really about Meghan Markle at all

The Meghan and Harry documentary isn’t really about Meghan Markle at all

Rachel Cunliffe

Why is the Bank of England raising interest rates when inflation has peaked?

Will Dunn

Why Brexit is back

Is TikTok “bombarding” teenage users with harmful content?

Sarah Manavis

In defence of “vibes”

In defence of “vibes”

Nick Burns

Is Rishi Sunak as hawkish on China as he made out?

Freddie Hayward

Quickfire

The woke brigade isn’t cancelling Christmas

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The woke brigade isn’t cancelling Christmas

Jonn Elledge

Starmer shouldn’t aim to be a cult leader like Corbyn

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Starmer shouldn’t aim to be a cult leader like Corbyn

Oz Katerji

Politics

Will the Tories ever resolve their internal battle on immigration?

However far Rishi Sunak goes to placate the right of his party, there will always be calls for him to go further.

By Zoë Grünewald

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“It’s dangerous for democracy”: Clive Lewis on candidate selection, radicalism and the future of BAME Labour

“It’s dangerous for democracy”: Clive Lewis on candidate selection, radicalism and the future of BAME Labour

Zoë Grünewald

The government’s concession on childcare shows how much the issue matters to voters

Rachel Wearmouth

Even in a season of goodwill, I look back in anger at the Tory mess that was 2022

Rishi Sunak has been left looking complacent on strikes

Freddie Hayward

Why is Wes Streeting challenging the BMA?

Why is Wes Streeting challenging the BMA?

Rachel Wearmouth

Can anyone save the Tory party?

John Oxley

From Our Writers

Rachel Cunliffe

Matt Hancock’s Pandemic Diaries are a delusional piece of self-aggrandising fan fiction

Pravina Rudra

Am I unwoke for not wanting an open relationship?

Tomiwa Owolade

Immigration isn’t undermining British religiousness – it’s the only thing sustaining it

Anoosh Chakelian

The biggest myths about this week’s strikes in the UK

World

Iran’s regime won’t be easily toppled

The public hanging of a protester shows the state’s response to mass demonstrations is becoming more violent.

By Megan Gibson

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China is lifting “zero Covid” controls. What happens next could be devastating

China is lifting “zero Covid” controls. What happens next could be devastating

Katie Stallard

Europe’s far-right parties are learning from one another

Ido Vock

Jens Stoltenberg: “We will support Ukraine for as long as it takes”

Megan Gibson

Estonia supports Ukraine because we know the devastation of Russian imperialism

Kaja Kallas

Germany’s far-right plot shows how old and new forms of extremism are fusing

Germany’s far-right plot shows how old and new forms of extremism are fusing

Jeremy Cliffe

Nick Fuentes: the white supremacist travelling with Kanye West

Emily Tamkin

Ideas

Bruno Latour and the philosophy of life

Adam Tooze

The left’s patient gardener

Richard Seymour

American hubris

American hubris

Adam Tooze

Elon Musk’s useful philosopher

Paris Marx

Britain’s empire of science

Duncan Bell

What Chantal Mouffe gets wrong

What Chantal Mouffe gets wrong

Oliver Eagleton

Books and Culture

How David Milch reinvented TV drama

The memoir of the American creator of NYPD Blue and Deadwood is a rich story of drink, drugs and creative…

By Erica Wagner

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The rise and fall of the British music press

The rise and fall of the British music press

David Hepworth

The New Statesman’s best books of 2022

How Sensation turned British art into big business

Michael Prodger

Why Rome had no culture wars

Rowan Williams

An A to Z of Carmen Callil

An A to Z of Carmen Callil

Julian Barnes

The highs and lows of Christmas TV 2022

Rachel Cooke

Podcasts

Allegations of corruption, from Qatar to FTX

Allegations of corruption, from Qatar to FTX

A brief history of “woke”: how one word fuelled the culture wars – Audio Long Reads

Audio Long Reads

A brief history of “woke”: how one word fuelled the culture wars – Audio Long Reads

Stuart McGurk and Chris Stone

Are British prime ministers too powerful? With Armando Iannucci | Westminster Reimagined

Westminster Reimagined

Are British prime ministers too powerful? With Armando Iannucci | Westminster Reimagined

TV Rain: the turbulent history of Russia’s last independent media channel

TV Rain: the turbulent history of Russia’s last independent media channel

Business and Economics

The Tories are planning to leave the housing crash for the next government

Emma Haslett

Most UK businesses see no benefit in post-Brexit deregulation

Emma Haslett

The UK’s GDP figures look good, but they don’t tell the whole story

The UK’s GDP figures look good, but they don’t tell the whole story

Emma Haslett

Is Elon Musk too rich to fail?

Will Dunn

“What Rishi Sunak is doing is lunacy”: the City’s favourite strategist on the economy’s hidden dangers

Will Dunn

What if inflation falls in the wrong way?

What if inflation falls in the wrong way?

Emma Haslett

Spotlight on Policy

Regional Development

“The Tories have given up”: Tyne mayor Jamie Driscoll on revitalising the north-east

Harry Clarke-Ezzidio

Regional Development

Bankruptcy and “overnight markets”: Essex’s council finance headache

Samir Jeraj

“I left in tears”: How misdiagnosis is hurting endometriosis and PCOS sufferers

“I left in tears”: How misdiagnosis is hurting endometriosis and PCOS sufferers

Grace Braddock

Energy and Climate Change

The green jobs bonanza is already here

Nick Ferris

“Fraud adapts”: How to fix the UK’s online crime problem

Emma Haslett

When will nuclear fusion produce more heat than hype?

Energy and Climate Change

When will nuclear fusion produce more heat than hype?

India Bourke

Environment

Seven ways to make leaders act on the climate

New Statesman

Generation Greta: the school strike that went global

India Bourke

Robin Wall Kimmerer: “How strange to be a species that engineers its own demise”

Robin Wall Kimmerer: “How strange to be a species that engineers its own demise”

India Bourke

Amitav Ghosh: “Climate change is becoming an all-out war”

Philippa Nuttall

Letter from Brazil: the rainforest fights back

Andrew Downie

“Global problems must be tackled through global collaboration”: Ai Weiwei on his New Statesman cover

“Global problems must be tackled through global collaboration”: Ai Weiwei on his New Statesman cover

Ai Weiwei

The Long Read

The year woke broke: a brief history of a contested word

The year woke broke: a brief history of a contested word

From Suella Braverman to Elon Musk, war has been declared on liberalism. How did one word come to mean so…

By Stuart McGurk

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Christmas Special

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Keir Starmer: “Am I aiming to be just a one-term prime minister? No, of course not”

By Rachel Wearmouth

Winter Reflection: Fellowship of the flock

By Helen Macdonald

The restoration of the coffeehouse

By Jeremy Cliffe

The year woke broke: a brief history of a contested word

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