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Keir Starmer’s mildly authoritarian streak chimes perfectly with these troubled times

Unlike the right, the left is comfortable using state power – and government intervention is exactly what Britain needs.

By Andrew Marr

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What do China’s lockdown protests mean for Xi Jinping?

What do China’s lockdown protests mean for Xi Jinping?

Katie Stallard

What Chantal Mouffe gets wrong

Oliver Eagleton

Why Brexit is back

The quiet revolution in black British identity

Tomiwa Owolade

The Tories’ unpopularity among the young isn’t a woke conspiracy

The Tories’ unpopularity among the young isn’t a woke conspiracy

Rachel Cunliffe

Most UK businesses see no benefit in post-Brexit deregulation

Emma Haslett

Quickfire

Museums like the Wellcome Collection miss the middle ground in the culture wars

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Museums like the Wellcome Collection miss the middle ground in the culture wars

Kristina Murkett

Why the Daily Mail’s defence of private schools doesn’t add up

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Why the Daily Mail’s defence of private schools doesn’t add up

Sam Freedman

Politics

“You don’t trash your neighbours”: David Lammy on global Britain under Labour

How does the shadow foreign secretary see the UK’s role after Brexit?

By Harry Lambert

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Rishi Sunak needs more than a good tone to beat Labour

Rishi Sunak needs more than a good tone to beat Labour

Freddie Hayward

Keeping quiet on Brexit is a shrewd move for Labour now, but a strategic disaster in the long term

Andrew Marr

Supreme Court defeat should be a signal for Nicola Sturgeon to move on, but she won’t

Brexit has made us poorer – but we’re trapped by a conspiracy of silence

Anand Menon and Jonathan Portes

"Nobody took her seriously": the rise, fall and rise of Suella Braverman

“Nobody took her seriously”: the rise, fall and rise of Suella Braverman

Martin Fletcher

Labour disowns “patronising and paternalistic” foreign aid

Rachel Wearmouth

From Our Writers

David Gauke

Why Brexit is back

Pippa Bailey

What Charles and Camilla’s dirty phone call taught us about the English language

Bruno Maçães

Inside the Twittering machine

Jonathan Liew

The Qatar World Cup is a moral disaster – is it braver to step away, or step inside?

World

Is Volodymyr Zelensky losing the support of the West?

The Ukrainian president's response to the Poland missile incident highlighted tensions with some Western leaders at a time when the risk of war fatigue is growing.

By Katie Stallard

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

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

Megan Gibson

The brutal methods of Russia’s Wagner Group

Ido Vock

What a strong US midterms performance means for Joe Biden

Emily Tamkin

Joe Biden and Xi Jinping try to avoid a “new Cold War”

Katie Stallard

The reality of Sweden’s far-right future

The reality of Sweden’s far-right future

Karin Pettersson

Will America’s Gen Z save the world?

Jeremy Cliffe

Ideas

“Justice cannot be the lodestar of a new society”

Gavin Jacobson

Bruno Latour and the philosophy of life

Adam Tooze

The left’s patient gardener

The left’s patient gardener

Richard Seymour

When finance and oil collide

Helen Thompson

Why are Americans dying so early?

Nick Burns

Elon Musk’s useful philosopher

Elon Musk’s useful philosopher

Paris Marx

Books and Culture

Nick Cave: “I don’t think art should be in the hands of the virtuous”

The musician on why Morrissey matters, his deepening faith and grieving for his sons.

By Kate Mossman

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What Don DeLillo saw coming

What Don DeLillo saw coming

Chris Power

The radical bookshops shaping Britain’s literary culture

Luca Guadagnino’s Bones and All is a Gen Z-friendly cannibal romance

David Sexton

Hugo Blick’s masterful drama The English has left me in slack-jawed awe

Rachel Cooke

The Light We Carry: Michelle Obama’s self-help slogans

The Light We Carry: Michelle Obama’s self-help slogans

Lola Seaton

The Wonder: Florence Pugh is controlled and commanding in this brilliant film

Pippa Bailey

Podcasts

Why are so many Conservative MPs standing down? With Charlotte Ivers

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Why are so many Conservative MPs standing down? With Charlotte Ivers

Are 'Substackademics' the new public intellectuals? - Audio Long Reads

Audio Long Reads

Are ‘Substackademics’ the new public intellectuals? – Audio Long Reads

Chris Bickerton and Adrian Bradley

Can politics survive a post-truth world? with Armando Iannucci | Westminster Reimagined

Westminster Reimagined

Can politics survive a post-truth world? with Armando Iannucci | Westminster Reimagined

Why is Brexit back to haunt the Tory party?

Why is Brexit back to haunt the Tory party?

Business and Economics

Why the Conservatives will lose their war on working from home

Emma Haslett

How the Chinese takeover of the UK’s largest semiconductor factory unravelled

Oscar Williams

Behind the collapse of Made.com

Behind the collapse of Made.com

Emma Haslett

The UK economy is shrinking: only investment will save it

Emma Haslett

Elon Musk’s mismanagement suggests a dark future for Twitter

Will Dunn

Britain's racing inflation has a hidden cause: corporate greed

Britain’s racing inflation has a hidden cause: corporate greed

Will Dunn

Spotlight on Policy

Energy and Climate Change

“This is not new stuff”: the verdict on the government’s home insulation scheme

Samir Jeraj

Regional Development

Was Great British Railways ever the answer to the UK’s transport woes?

Johnbosco Nwogbo

What are the latest updates to the Online Safety Bill?

What are the latest updates to the Online Safety Bill?

Sarah Dawood

The Chancellor’s funding won’t treat the NHS’s financial headache

Sally Warren

Orbiting debris is making satellite missions uninsurable

Samir Jeraj

How Johnson, Truss and the Tory rebels learned to love onshore wind

Energy and Climate Change

How Johnson, Truss and the Tory rebels learned to love onshore wind

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 great attention deficit: what’s behind the rise in adult ADHD?

The great attention deficit: what’s behind the rise in adult ADHD?

No longer confined to “problem children”, ADHD diagnoses are booming – yet it’s a condition that remains widely misunderstood.

By Sophie McBain

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Is Volodymyr Zelensky losing the support of the West?

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