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Must the Tories choose between Liz Truss and Boris Johnson?

The question that troubles Conservatives as they ponder regicide is whether the former prime minister could yet return.

By Andrew Marr

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Leader: Vladimir Putin’s game of nuclear blackmail

Leader: Vladimir Putin’s game of nuclear blackmail

New Statesman

Joe Biden’s marijuana pardons prove he can change with the times

Emily Tamkin

The true cost of Liz Truss’s energy plan is dizzying

Why do the Tories hate voters so much?

Philip Collins

How to wage a class war

How to wage a class war

Jerome Roos

Abolish true crime

Anna Leszkiewicz

Quickfire

Does Liz Truss actually want the UK to face blackouts this winter?

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Does Liz Truss actually want the UK to face blackouts this winter?

Rachel Cunliffe

There’s no such thing as being straight

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There’s no such thing as being straight

Marc Burrows

Politics

The Tories are trapped – what can they possibly do now?

MPs have overwhelmingly concluded that Liz Truss is not up to it, but there is no consensus about who should succeed her.

By David Gauke

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Britain braces itself for the devastation of austerity 2.0

Britain braces itself for the devastation of austerity 2.0

Anoosh Chakelian

The problem with Liz Truss’s attack on the “anti-growth coalition”

Freddie Hayward

Will Tanner’s Diary: Conservative conference blues, Michael Gove on manoeuvres, and the joys of insomnia

What does Michael Gove want?

Rachel Wearmouth

The Brexit revolution devours its children

The Brexit revolution devours its children

Andrew Marr

Liz Truss’s strident rhetoric cannot disguise her political weakness

Rachel Wearmouth

From Our Writers

Anoosh Chakelian

As Britain faces a hard winter, the 1 per cent will get richer

Martin Fletcher

Liz Truss has already proved to be the worst Tory prime minister yet

Jonn Elledge

History shows why the Tories have become addicted to regicide

Pravina Rudra

Swapping hotels for hostels and luggage for a backpack has recharged my love of travel

Ideas

On the eradication of species

Richard Seymour

Red love, for all

Erin Maglaque

Is America worth keeping?

Is America worth keeping?

Thomas Nagel

What is to be done about money?

Geoff Mann

Writing in the age of Big Data

Ryan Ruby

Metaverse in retrograde

Metaverse in retrograde

Justin EH Smith

World

Even an abortion scandal might not stop “pro-life” candidate Herschel Walker

The anti-abortion Republican running for a Senate seat in Georgia has been accused of paying for a former girlfriend’s termination.

By Emily Tamkin

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How should the US respond to a Russian nuclear attack?

How should the US respond to a Russian nuclear attack?

Anusar Farooqui

Ukrainians stand firm in the face of Putin’s threats

Alix Kroeger

How Mahsa Amini’s death set Iran on fire

Megan Gibson

Ukraine’s army makes a mockery of Vladimir Putin’s annexation

Lawrence Freedman

Brazil's election proves it - the pandemic did not kill nationalist populism

Brazil’s election proves it – the pandemic did not kill nationalist populism

Jeremy Cliffe

What could happen if Russia used nuclear weapons?

Emily Tamkin

Books and Culture

How Dr No made James Bond a global brand

Sixty years ago today, the first Bond film transformed Ian Fleming's hero from a humourless brute to an icon of…

By David Sexton

The degradation of Marilyn Monroe

The degradation of Marilyn Monroe

Tanya Gold

Why cheating in chess does not pay

The Lost King: a sly, subversive take on the discovery of Richard III

David Sexton

How Pharoah Sanders played against reality

Philip Clark

The cutting wit of Alan Rickman

The cutting wit of Alan Rickman

Anna Leszkiewicz

Radio & Podcasts

The podcast Hoaxed packages suburban trauma as grim entertainment

Anna Leszkiewicz

Podcasts

Navigating nuclear menace

Navigating nuclear menace

“The party leads everything” | China under Xi

“The party leads everything” | China under Xi

You Ask Us: submit your questions for New Statesman podcasts

You Ask Us: submit your questions for New Statesman podcasts

Rebellious Tory MPs look for Liz Truss’s successor

Rebellious Tory MPs look for Liz Truss’s successor

Business and Economics

Bruce Daisley: “Twitter wasn’t set up to be about anger and rage”

Oscar Williams

“There’s only so much money you can spend”: why high fliers hate the top-rate tax cut

Emma Haslett

Could a house price crash tame the UK's depraved rental market?

Could a house price crash tame the UK’s depraved rental market?

Emma Haslett

Why Amazon is raising the price of Prime in a cost-of-living crisis

Oscar Williams

Financial markets have rejected the Tories’ economic vandalism

Will Dunn

The Bank of England is right to hold its nerve

The Bank of England is right to hold its nerve

Will Dunn

Spotlight on Policy

Sally Davies: “Anti-microbial resistance could kill us before the climate crisis does”

Sally Davies: “Anti-microbial resistance could kill us before the climate crisis does”

Alona Ferber

David Cameron's "Big Society" is still very much with us

Regional Development

David Cameron’s “Big Society” is still very much with us

Nick Ferris

I am a care worker – I've had enough of being mistreated and underpaid

I am a care worker – I’ve had enough of being mistreated and underpaid

Anonymous

“I would not leave the house”: how PMS sufferers are getting a raw deal from doctors

“I would not leave the house”: how PMS sufferers are getting a raw deal from doctors

Zoë Grünewald

Environment

Five reasons Jacob Rees-Mogg is unfit to tackle the climate emergency

India Bourke

Can we save the Amazon rainforest from environmental destruction?

Nick Ferris

Mapped: UK fracking licences could impact one in four Tory constituencies

Mapped: UK fracking licences could impact one in four Tory constituencies

Ben van der Merwe and India Bourke

Save the planet by saving the pandas

Martha Gill

For king and countryside: William must surpass his father’s green legacy

India Bourke

Fracking and oil drilling doesn't just fail Britain, it fails the world

Fracking and oil drilling doesn’t just fail Britain, it fails the world

India Bourke

The Long Read

Liz Truss and the rise of the libertarian right

Liz Truss and the rise of the libertarian right

The free-market thinkers and ideas behind the most radical economic experiment in Britain for 40 years.

By Jeremy Cliffe

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The Brexit revolution devours its children

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How Liz Truss crashed to earth

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Vladimir Putin’s land grab is an act of desperation

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The struggle for Italy

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