Investigating insomnia: on living with sleeplessness
Marina Benjamin explores the semiotics of sleep and its absence.
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How the Brexit fantasy died
The complex roots of populism
Populism succeeds by separating us into “the people” and “the corrupt elite” – but its causes are deeper and…
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Heart and soul: why the human heart is more than its mechanics
Most languages are littered with references to the heart as the seat of the soul and emotion. This is…
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BBC One drama Mrs Wilson is excellent: understated, beautifully acted and lovely to look at
Plus: David Attenborough’s Dynasties.
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What the struggle to automate housework tells us about the limits of the robot revolution
Since the washing machine and the dishwasher, engineers have had a hard time realising the perennial dream of a…
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On BBC World Service, it’s fake news season
The station’s latest campaign attempts to tackle the spread and rise of fake news.
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Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma finds beauty in the details of ordinary life in Mexico City
It’s the director’s first film since Gravity – and there are deeper connections between these superficially dissimilar movies.
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Turkey goes with almost anything, so you can really have fun with your Christmas dinner wine
I may not choose to eat turkey but since we do, I can I have fun choosing what everyone drinks.
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Cold comfort in Copenhagen
The Danes are considered to be among the happiest people in the world. But they can be clannish –…
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Why Christine and the Queens makes me feel like I’m ten years old and climbing a tree
I’m sure I’m not the only woman for whom Héloïse Letissier stirs up a half-forgotten feeling of wanting to be…
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How the right’s Brexit dream died
Free marketeers believed that EU withdrawal could be used as a Trojan horse to impose a new economic model…
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How London became a city where luxury flats sit empty and the homeless shiver in railway arches
Rough sleeping is only the most visible symptom of a larger crisis.
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Alan Johnson’s Diary: Why I can’t see much wrong with Theresa May’s Brexit agreement
It seems to me to be the kind of deal that a 52/48 referendum result requires.
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Brexit’s power-broker: how DUP leader Arlene Foster rose to the top
Despite one-dimensional media coverage, Foster is no theocrat – and is the only politician whom Paxman has subjected to a…
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Why Michelle Obama’s vapid liberalism is a dead end for the left
To defeat a resurgent right, we need rupture, not syrupy memoirs on a better yesterday.
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Paul Collier: “Move left on the economy and talk the language of belonging”
The Oxford University professor and author of The Future of Capitalism on how to heal deep rifts in society.
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Commons Confidential: May’s “economic shit cliff”
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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How fracking is radicalising rural voters in the Tory heartlands
Whatever its future in England, fracking has already left a troubled legacy and created a new type of activist.
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Letter of the Week: English amnesia over Ireland
A selection of the best letters received from our readers this week. Email letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced…
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Helen was convinced she had a cold but her symptoms suggested something more
Her sister had come with her to surgery. We exchanged a glance.
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Peter Lord Q&A: “Follow your interests and something good will turn up“
The founder of Aardman Animations on the Magic Roundabout, Tudor portraits and Trump.
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Netflix’s documentary series Dogs is a surprisingly human portrait of people and their pets
The show reveals, to moving effect, how humans rely on dogs for more than just companionship.
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First Thoughts: How Leave and Trump voters are more likely to believe in conspiracy theories
Nearly half of Trump’s voters think that global warming is a hoax “invented to deceive people”.
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Matters of life and death: Rowan Williams and John Gray in conversation
Two of our greatest thinkers tackle humanity’s key questions.
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Leader: The opportunity cost of Brexit
The lamentable irony of the project is that it has left Britain ever less capable of addressing the very discontent…
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The first signs of the next recession
After a long period of economic expansion, a slowdown has begun. But in an era of high debt and low…
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