Britain at the end of history
What Margaret Thatcher’s failures over German reunification can teach Brexit Britain 30 years on.
ByWhat Margaret Thatcher’s failures over German reunification can teach Brexit Britain 30 years on.
ByAt this stage, the duration of the condition is as uncertain as what underlies it.
ByWho are the self-styled gang of Western chauvinists Trump asked to “stand back and stand by”?
ByWhat scientists are discovering about the mysterious long-term effects of coronavirus.
ByIn The Glass Kingdom, Osborne upends our most basic assumptions about the human world.
ByBeyond the white male canon: Bernardine Evaristo’s New Statesman/Goldsmiths Prize Lecture offers a manifesto for the creation of a new,…
ByFreud could be selfish, amoral and cruel. But he lived and painted with feverish intensity.
ByNick Greenslade's The Thin White Line offers the inside story of the 2010 Pakistani cricket betting scam.
ByHunter's The Harpy, Garrett's Bunker, Sinclair's Cannibal, and Ball's The System.
ByQuestions of gender and sexual trauma have long confused Artemisia Gentileschi's status as a major painter – something a new…
ByIn each episode, Harrison walks through the nearby countryside – she might explore an arable farm, a stately home or…
ByThe joy is in watching the vulnerable Erica Benton (Jill Clayburgh) build herself back up.
ByMike Bartlett's new series is both mystifyingly bad and bewilderingly addictive.
ByPretending things are fine when they are not is the American way. It's time the president, and the rest of…
ByElite sport has streamlined itself to become flat-pack entertainment – but there isn't a competition in the world that…
ByThe pandemic has exposed our brittle belief in progress and undermined the assumption that science can save us from the rise-and-fall cycle of civilisation.
ByBritain’s regional inequality is tenacious, chronic and complex. If only solving it were as simple as reversing neglect.
ByWith Trump in the White House and Britain cutting itself off from the mainstream, will Germany put itself forward as…
ByThe shadow chancellor is blamed for having failed to ruffle Rishi Sunak – but it’s too soon to write…
ByThe international media has often given the nationalist-nativist AfD too much credit and almost never too little.
ByThe Harvard professor on how most claims about human nature are based on people from “Western, educated, industrialised, rich, democratic societies”.
ByDonald Trump's medical army is a typically American projection of power.
ByYour weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
ByThe pandemic has illustrated the need for public authority, but at the local and international levels as much as…
ByOur farming industry has done untold damage to habitats and humans nationwide – but it's not too late to…
ByWith the keys to my new abode finally in my pocket I breathe a sigh of relief, until I…
ByWhen I told my friends that I was visiting my in-laws for a month they winced, but it was…
ByThis column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain…
ByEmail emily.bootle@newstatesman.co.uk if you would like to be the New Statesman’s Subscriber of the Week.
ByThe comedian talks David Bowie, John Stuart Mill and 1970s New York.
ByA selection of the best letters received from our readers this week. Email letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced…
ByThe age of liberal triumphalism has ended, but it should not be replaced by one of progressive defeatism.
ByFreud could be selfish, amoral and cruel. But he lived and painted with feverish intensity.
ByNick Greenslade's The Thin White Line offers the inside story of the 2010 Pakistani cricket betting scam.
ByDonald Trump's medical army is a typically American projection of power.
ByThe Harvard professor on how most claims about human nature are based on people from “Western, educated, industrialised, rich, democratic societies”.
ByHunter's The Harpy, Garrett's Bunker, Sinclair's Cannibal, and Ball's The System.
ByYour weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
ByThe pandemic has illustrated the need for public authority, but at the local and international levels as much as…
ByElite sport has streamlined itself to become flat-pack entertainment – but there isn't a competition in the world that…
ByThe pandemic has exposed our brittle belief in progress and undermined the assumption that science can save us from the rise-and-fall cycle of civilisation.
ByThe joy is in watching the vulnerable Erica Benton (Jill Clayburgh) build herself back up.
ByBritain’s regional inequality is tenacious, chronic and complex. If only solving it were as simple as reversing neglect.
ByMike Bartlett's new series is both mystifyingly bad and bewilderingly addictive.
ByIn each episode, Harrison walks through the nearby countryside – she might explore an arable farm, a stately home or…
ByOur farming industry has done untold damage to habitats and humans nationwide – but it's not too late to…
ByPretending things are fine when they are not is the American way. It's time the president, and the rest of…
ByWith the keys to my new abode finally in my pocket I breathe a sigh of relief, until I…
ByWith Trump in the White House and Britain cutting itself off from the mainstream, will Germany put itself forward as…
ByWhen I told my friends that I was visiting my in-laws for a month they winced, but it was…
ByThe international media has often given the nationalist-nativist AfD too much credit and almost never too little.
ByThis column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain…
ByThe shadow chancellor is blamed for having failed to ruffle Rishi Sunak – but it’s too soon to write…
ByEmail emily.bootle@newstatesman.co.uk if you would like to be the New Statesman’s Subscriber of the Week.
ByA selection of the best letters received from our readers this week. Email letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced…
ByThe comedian talks David Bowie, John Stuart Mill and 1970s New York.
ByThe age of liberal triumphalism has ended, but it should not be replaced by one of progressive defeatism.
By