
Why I wept at spring’s arrival
Winter is about stasis, but spring brings change and progress – and dear God, never have we all needed…
ByWinter is about stasis, but spring brings change and progress – and dear God, never have we all needed…
ByEvolution has always been indifferent to the myth of inevitable human progress. Now, in the age of Covid-19, it…
ByThe creativity and technological development seen by many as essential to economic growth come with hidden costs to society.
ByDespite his immense success as an illustrator of children’s classics, the artist longed for respect as a painter.
ByAlthough it covers important and sensitive issues, Chloe Combi’s “You Don’t Know Me” can feel exploitative in its approach.
ByThough I felt physically ill after the first episode, Peter Moffat’s new legal drama is a mesmerising, albeit gory,…
BySet in the 1950s, the movie is a lesson in the suffocating domesticity that women of that time faced.
ByFrom their plush "Digital Concert Hall" you can listen to Thomas Søndergård conduct the magnificent orchestra.
ByThis detailed, academic book argues flawed leadership led to military disaster in Iraq and Afghanistan.
ByBy focusing on fairy tales, Dyhouse gives a sense of narrative cohesion to the fitful, complex, uneven revolution in postwar…
ByChannon was a snobbish, sexually voracious Tory who revered Hitler – and a new edition of his journals shines a startling…
ByThe Nobel winner’s cryptic new novel is the result of a decades-long rejection of “well-formed” fiction.
ByThe Assault on Truth by Oborne, Aftershocks by Owusu, Mouthpieces by McBride, and Bolt from the Blue by Cooper.
ByA new poem by Tamsin Hopkins.
ByAfter Greenslade’s declaration of support for the IRA, his high-minded media columns for the Guardian now look shabby.
ByYour weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
ByPrivate trauma has been overshadowed by the public health emergency, leading many to feel their individual troubles count for less.
ByAfter 36 years of working in the NHS, the surgeon warns that his colleagues on Covid-19 wards need more support.
ByA selection of the best letters received from our readers this week. Email letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced…
ByKeir Starmer’s party seems to have lost confidence in what it is, what it wants and for whom it…
BySadly, I realised that these unintended sanctuaries were temporary and would soon fall to the developers.
ByAs we battle with lockdown fatigue, I remember that those who live with disability or chronic illness always operate within such…
ByEmail emily.bootle@newstatesman.co.uk if you would like to be the New Statesman's Subscriber of the Week.
ByThis column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s Richard II, refers to the whole of Britain…
ByThe founder of Starling Bank discusses classroom rivalry, robots of the future and the Welsh painter Ceri Richards.
ByAfter me only two people have ever been inside my home, largely because it is rarely in a fit…
ByThe disastrous move is as close to snatching food from the mouths of babes as politics ever gets.
BySocial media entices public figures with its promises of stardom – but there too lies its danger.
ByWe will soon see the UK is better out of the EU than in it.
ByWith no pubs or restaurants, it’s as if we’ve returned to Thomas Hardy’s Wessex, where awkward young farmhands called on…
ByResearchers have discovered that heavy use of social media, for adolescent girls, is correlated more strongly with anxiety and…
ByI had visions of book burnings and scarlet letters, but then I remembered: parents are adults, too...
ByThe Chancellor’s hope is that the country may now have an appetite to reduce debt, leaving Labour in a potentially disastrous…
ByEmail emily.bootle@newstatesman.co.uk if you would like to be the New Statesman's Subscriber of the Week.
ByThis column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s Richard II, refers to the whole of Britain…
ByThe founder of Starling Bank discusses classroom rivalry, robots of the future and the Welsh painter Ceri Richards.
ByAs we battle with lockdown fatigue, I remember that those who live with disability or chronic illness always operate within such…
ByAfter me only two people have ever been inside my home, largely because it is rarely in a fit…
BySadly, I realised that these unintended sanctuaries were temporary and would soon fall to the developers.
ByAlthough it covers important and sensitive issues, Chloe Combi’s “You Don’t Know Me” can feel exploitative in its approach.
ByThough I felt physically ill after the first episode, Peter Moffat’s new legal drama is a mesmerising, albeit gory,…
BySet in the 1950s, the movie is a lesson in the suffocating domesticity that women of that time faced.
ByAfter Greenslade’s declaration of support for the IRA, his high-minded media columns for the Guardian now look shabby.
ByYour weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
ByFrom their plush "Digital Concert Hall" you can listen to Thomas Søndergård conduct the magnificent orchestra.
ByPrivate trauma has been overshadowed by the public health emergency, leading many to feel their individual troubles count for less.
ByI had visions of book burnings and scarlet letters, but then I remembered: parents are adults, too...
BySocial media entices public figures with its promises of stardom – but there too lies its danger.
ByResearchers have discovered that heavy use of social media, for adolescent girls, is correlated more strongly with anxiety and…
ByWe will soon see the UK is better out of the EU than in it.
ByThe Assault on Truth by Oborne, Aftershocks by Owusu, Mouthpieces by McBride, and Bolt from the Blue by Cooper.
ByThe disastrous move is as close to snatching food from the mouths of babes as politics ever gets.
ByWith no pubs or restaurants, it’s as if we’ve returned to Thomas Hardy’s Wessex, where awkward young farmhands called on…
ByA selection of the best letters received from our readers this week. Email letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced…
ByA new poem by Tamsin Hopkins.
ByThe Chancellor’s hope is that the country may now have an appetite to reduce debt, leaving Labour in a potentially disastrous…
ByKeir Starmer’s party seems to have lost confidence in what it is, what it wants and for whom it…
ByAfter 36 years of working in the NHS, the surgeon warns that his colleagues on Covid-19 wards need more support.
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