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Could Sunak be the Tories’ new Pitt the Younger?

A new radicalism can inspire the cross-class electoral alliance that delivered victory to the Tories in 2019.

By Danny Kruger

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Is this the end of newspapers?

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Is this the end of newspapers?

Tim de Lisle

John Gray on 110 years of the New Statesman: “I regret I didn’t criticise Tony Blair more”

Gavin Jacobson

Jeremy Hunt’s economic optimism will collide with voters’ realities

Quickfire

Comment and analysis from our writers

Marie Le Conte

Elon Musk has laid bare the devil’s bargain we all make with the internet

Jonn Elledge

The Tories need to get over their obsession with the “I’m afraid there’s no money” note

Sophie McBain

How the Daily Mail blames women for the downfall of Tupperware – and everything else

Will Dunn

AI threatens to take the fun out of work

Nick Ferris

Ireland booms while Brexit Britain whimpers next door

Pravina Rudra

Do straight men punch above their weight?

Finn McRedmond

The real reason Joe Biden is accused of being anti-British

Politics

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.

By Andrew Marr

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Austerity regret – the new Tory gambit

Austerity regret – the new Tory gambit

Anoosh Chakelian

Preparing for Power

Labour’s foreign policy begins at home

Freddie Hayward

Labour’s Sunak adverts show Keir Starmer has finally decided to gamble

Preparing for Power

Emily Thornberry: Jeremy Corbyn’s treatment is “very sad”

Rachel Wearmouth

Rosie Duffield: “You never change sex”

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Rosie Duffield: “You never change sex”

Harry Lambert

Rishi Sunak is going to have a Donald Trump problem

David Gauke

World

Macron’s interior minister signals his authoritarian shift

As the French president endures weekly protests, Gérald Darmanin has emerged as his most prominent law and order hard-liner.

By Ido Vock

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The view from Switzerland, where big business rules

The view from Switzerland, where big business rules

Matthew Engel

The meaning of Sanna Marin’s defeat

Megan Gibson

The meaning of the battle for Bakhmut

Lawrence Freedman

Letter from Kinmen: Taiwan is already under attack

Katie Stallard

Graham Allison: “American politics is driving towards a provocation that China could not avoid”

Graham Allison: “American politics is driving towards a provocation that China could not avoid”

Jeremy Cliffe

This could be the end of Benjamin Netanyahu

Alona Ferber

Ideas

The Weekend Essay

Gramsci in Florida

Alberto Toscano

The Weekend Essay

The Washington consensus is dead

Angela Nagle

Who is afraid of Martin Heidegger?

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Who is afraid of Martin Heidegger?

Lyndsey Stonebridge

Stop posting

Justin EH Smith

The Weekend Essay

Going native

Oliver Eagleton

The revolution will not be brought to you by ChatGPT

The revolution will not be brought to you by ChatGPT

Aaron Benanav

Books and Culture

The decline of the Literary Bloke

In featuring just four men, Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists confirms what we already knew: the literary male has…

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Derek Parfit: the perfectionist at All Souls

Derek Parfit: the perfectionist at All Souls

David Edmonds

The last great Beatles gig

How Christopher Wren built Britain

Michael Prodger

How Succession created TV’s first irredeemable leading man

Fergal Kinney

Ali Smith on the groundbreaking art of Lucie Rie

Ali Smith on the groundbreaking art of Lucie Rie

Ali Smith

The best books of 2023 so far

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Podcasts

Confessions of a philosopher: Bryan Magee’s final interview

Confessions of a philosopher: Bryan Magee’s final interview

Jason Cowley

Joe Biden’s visit exposes the UK’s Brexit impasse

Joe Biden’s visit exposes the UK’s Brexit impasse

What should Europe’s position on Taiwan be?

What should Europe’s position on Taiwan be?

The New Statesman political editors’ reunion: covering Westminster from Thatcher to Sunak

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The New Statesman political editors’ reunion: covering Westminster from Thatcher to Sunak

Business and Economics

Silicon Valley Bank unmasks the hypocrisy of libertarian tech bros

Emma Haslett

Fear grips the markets

Will Dunn

Elon Musk is building an Internet of Losers

Elon Musk is building an Internet of Losers

Emma Haslett

Why recessions make the rich richer

Will Dunn

There is no chance the government will regulate AI

Will Dunn

“I put 7,000 oysters in the skip”: the fishing industry fights for survival in polluted waters

“I put 7,000 oysters in the skip”: the fishing industry fights for survival in polluted waters

Emma Haslett

Spotlight on Policy

This is how GPT-4 will be regulated

Greg Noone

Energy and Climate Change

Why G7 climate leadership is on the line in Japan

India Bourke

Why do women still pay for HRT?

Why do women still pay for HRT?

Sarah Dawood

The Policy Ask with Kamila Hawthorne: “GPs should be caring for patients, not ticking boxes”

Spotlight

The government has broken its promises on social care

Chris Thomas

More than £2bn of government funding for retrofitting homes remains unspent

Energy and Climate Change

More than £2bn of government funding for retrofitting homes remains unspent

Polly Bindman

The Long Read

Is the future of Christianity African?

Is the future of Christianity African?

How immigration is revitalising British churches.

By Tomiwa Owolade

From Our 110-Year Archive

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Christopher Hitchens

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EH Carr

The upside-down world of Lewis Carroll

The upside-down world of Lewis Carroll

Virginia Woolf

“For what am I fighting?”: George Orwell on Arthur Koestler’s “Darkness at Noon”

George Orwell

From the NS archive: The Tuscan holiday

Quentin Letts

From the NS archive: Do you dare like this book?

From the NS archive: Do you dare like this book?

Ian McEwan

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