The New Statesman: A New Direction
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Jason Cowley
Jason Cowley is editor-in-chief of the New Statesman.
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Editor’s note: Football’s forgotten fans, hybrid Tories, and why Labour keeps missing the bigger picture
In squaring up to the European Super League, Boris Johnson confirmed the Conservatives’ communitarian turn. Is Labour paying attention?
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Editor’s Note: Salmond vs Sturgeon, in praise of the Oxford vaccine and why we must cherish Melvyn Bragg
The hatred between Salmond and Sturgeon has Shakespearean depths, and beyond their personal struggle the unity of the kingdom is at…
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Editor’s note: Our national mourning and the future of newspapers
A death toll of 100,000 is a moment of mourning and of national shame. But amid all the uncertainty a consensus is…
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From the NS Archive: The secrets of John le Carré
5 February 1999: John le Carré: A literary barbarian? Or a writer to whom future generations will turn for insights…
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The Secret Life: John le Carré
In the end, one suspects, John le Carré remained an enigma even to himself.
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George Orwell and the road to revolution
Orwell wrote Animal Farm at a time of global crisis as a warning about oppressive state power. Its message…
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Editor’s Note: A new politics of the common good and Jonathan Van-Tam’s mixed metaphors
The public have been reassured by the deputy chief medical officer's folksy analogies and "Mum test".
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“The English believe their elites are a treacherous class”: James Hawes on his short history of England
The British author discusses the long shadow of the Norman Conquest – and how England never recovered from it.
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