
Personal Story: How I learned to exist as prey
With a stranger’s throwaway comment, my entire connection to the natural world had been recalibrated.
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ByFor the majority of Scottish nationalists, independence is a goal that overrides all failures.
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ByAnnegret Kramp-Karrenbauer has resigned as CDU leader, destroying the chancellor’s carefully laid succession plan.
ByNo other major Western country has allowed so many of its strategic industries, assets and pre-eminent companies to fall…
ByTory MPs fear that the party’s ideologically incoherent December manifesto was not just for Christmas but for life.
ByWould I have followed the moral norms of a hundred years ago?
ByIn his third novel, Thayil turns his attention to the “New India” of Hindu nationalism and high-rise luxury apartments.
ByThe account tweets out the combination codes for cubicles across the capital.
ByEnright’s new novel about the daughter of an actress finds itself in a biographical straitjacket.
ByIn her richly observed cultural history, Roberts tracks down the stories behind Siberia’s most socially significant pianos.
ByThis is not a memoir for anyone looking for a lengthy statement of values or a fly-on-the-wall account of…
ByThe party is peculiarly contaminated by the legacy of abandoning its Leave voters and by a leader many voters…
ByYou may argue the corporation got its election mix wrong, but you cannot deny it is the broadest free-speech…
ByAnnegret Kramp-Karrenbauer has resigned as CDU leader, destroying the chancellor’s carefully laid succession plan.
ByHow Irish politics has been transformed.
ByHow one person can accelerate a pandemic.
ByA new BBC Radio 4 show about the poet is incredibly dense and atmospheric.
ByAfter five years of Boris Johnson’s comically ill-conceived projects, voters will want unflamboyant competence.
ByBeneath its soapy subplots and shiny locations lies something far messier.
ByThe French economist and author of Capital and Ideology on Brexit, Labour’s defeat and the next crisis.
ByThe latest in a long line of adaptations of Austen’s novel doesn’t attempt anything too radical.
ByYour weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
ByFor the majority of Scottish nationalists, independence is a goal that overrides all failures.
ByFaced with a health scare, I couldn’t believe how angry I felt at being powerless.
ByA selection of the best letters received from our readers this week. Email letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced…
ByOur divorce from the EU will leave us, like characters in a Dantean parable, lapping frantically at a lake of English…
ByThe moral of the story is this: look at the menu carefully before ordering.
ByImagine swine flu-levels of population panic plus a virus capable of causing millions of hospitalisations, overlaid on an NHS…
ByNo other major Western country has allowed so many of its strategic industries, assets and pre-eminent companies to fall…
ByTory MPs fear that the party’s ideologically incoherent December manifesto was not just for Christmas but for life.
ByThe author talks re-runs of Would I Lie To You?, Clement Attlee and getting advice from Ted Hughes.
ByThe farcical arrangement of our rail network is symptomatic of the weaknesses of Britain’s economic model.
ByAlice’s Adventures Under Ground has vitality, inventiveness and – as Barry likes to insist – tunes coming out of its…
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