Why Helen Mirren’s sexy Catherine the Great is game-changing television
A female leader and sex symbol, played by a 74-year-old woman? Has this happened before?
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The Brexit revolutionaries
Judy Garland: The Final Rainbow: a tender portrait of an icon
The programme delves deep with frank interviews with old colleagues and archive recordings of Garland’s sublime voice and sparkling…
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Todd Phillips’s Joker: a grim, controversial but ultimately flimsy origin story
Joaquin Phoenix’s performance makes this film seem better than it is – but Joker remains insubstantial and inconsistent.
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Face It: Debbie Harry’s cool and forthright memoir
The Blondie singer is a reluctant memoirist and what drove her to write this is unclear – but thank…
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Why we need a Green New Deal to solve humanity’s greatest challenge
The world’s largest international institutions continue to insist that “private financing” is the only way to avert climate apocalypse…
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Susan Neiman: “Neither the US nor the UK has a grown-up relationship to their pasts”
Learning from the Germans is a formidable account of how Germany and America have come to terms with (or…
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The last true Gaullist: how Jacques Chirac charmed France
The late president’s popularity across French society is in marked contrast to that of Emmanuel Macron, who is deemed to…
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Commons Confidential: Theresa May in the soup queue
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Letter of the Week: Scientists against Brexit
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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Leader: The new right economics
In the UK and the US, conservative politicians are moving leftwards as they confront market failure and excessive austerity.
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Why gardening is the one area of life where gender discrimination may be permissable
It comes down to basic botany.
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Even with my mother gone, I get the urge to tell her things that would make her proud of me
How is it possible that I still keep forgetting, this many years after her death, that I can’t call…
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My new diet plans – and how to lose weight with the Global Lezardian Institute
Perhaps I am becoming a breatharian, whose adherents claim to be able to survive for years without eating, subsisting…
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How austerity is linked to a decade-long rise in the use of addictive prescription drugs
Ten years ago I could get physiotherapy appointments in weeks; now people wait months. As we struggle to control their…
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Jessie Burton Q&A: “What’s bugging me? The anxiety of social media“
The author talks Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the work of Jane Austen, and Schitt’s Creek.
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John Barnes, football race rows and the soul-corrupting economy of today’s new media
Whenever there’s race to be debated, just page Barnes and up he pops, effortlessly filling airtime.
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Watching West Ham defeat Man Utd, I was saddened by how far Fergie’s old club have fallen
The United team that lost to West Ham this season were devoid of identity and unacquainted with swagger.
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Health is about exercise and green veg. But if you’ve had an eating disorder, it’s not that easy
A desire to change your body could drag all of that history back.
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Gina Miller’s Diary: Tears of victory, Trump tactics – and why the Supreme Court ruling wasn’t about Brexit
This was about ruling that Johnson cannot set a precedent for prime ministers to close parliament to force through their…
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Many Labour MPs will be happy for Corbyn to lose if they can reclaim the party from the left
Transforming the PLP is an essential prerequisite to maintaining the Corbynites’ control of the party, and yet they have managed…
By John Barnes, football race rows and the soul-corrupting economy of today’s new media
Whenever there’s race to be debated, just page Barnes and up he pops, effortlessly filling airtime.
By Face It: Debbie Harry’s cool and forthright memoir
The Blondie singer is a reluctant memoirist and what drove her to write this is unclear – but thank…
By Watching West Ham defeat Man Utd, I was saddened by how far Fergie’s old club have fallen
The United team that lost to West Ham this season were devoid of identity and unacquainted with swagger.
By Health is about exercise and green veg. But if you’ve had an eating disorder, it’s not that easy
A desire to change your body could drag all of that history back.
By Why we need a Green New Deal to solve humanity’s greatest challenge
The world’s largest international institutions continue to insist that “private financing” is the only way to avert climate apocalypse…
By Susan Neiman: “Neither the US nor the UK has a grown-up relationship to their pasts”
Learning from the Germans is a formidable account of how Germany and America have come to terms with (or…
By Commons Confidential: Theresa May in the soup queue
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
By Todd Phillips’s Joker: a grim, controversial but ultimately flimsy origin story
Joaquin Phoenix’s performance makes this film seem better than it is – but Joker remains insubstantial and inconsistent.
By Judy Garland: The Final Rainbow: a tender portrait of an icon
The programme delves deep with frank interviews with old colleagues and archive recordings of Garland’s sublime voice and sparkling…
By The last true Gaullist: how Jacques Chirac charmed France
The late president’s popularity across French society is in marked contrast to that of Emmanuel Macron, who is deemed to…
By Why Helen Mirren’s sexy Catherine the Great is game-changing television
A female leader and sex symbol, played by a 74-year-old woman? Has this happened before?
By Letter of the Week: Scientists against Brexit
A selection of the best letters received from our readers this week. Email letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced…
By Why gardening is the one area of life where gender discrimination may be permissable
It comes down to basic botany.
By Even with my mother gone, I get the urge to tell her things that would make her proud of me
How is it possible that I still keep forgetting, this many years after her death, that I can’t call…
By Gina Miller’s Diary: Tears of victory, Trump tactics – and why the Supreme Court ruling wasn’t about Brexit
This was about ruling that Johnson cannot set a precedent for prime ministers to close parliament to force through their…
By My new diet plans – and how to lose weight with the Global Lezardian Institute
Perhaps I am becoming a breatharian, whose adherents claim to be able to survive for years without eating, subsisting…
By Many Labour MPs will be happy for Corbyn to lose if they can reclaim the party from the left
Transforming the PLP is an essential prerequisite to maintaining the Corbynites’ control of the party, and yet they have managed…
By How austerity is linked to a decade-long rise in the use of addictive prescription drugs
Ten years ago I could get physiotherapy appointments in weeks; now people wait months. As we struggle to control their…
By Leader: The new right economics
In the UK and the US, conservative politicians are moving leftwards as they confront market failure and excessive austerity.
By Jessie Burton Q&A: “What’s bugging me? The anxiety of social media“
The author talks Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the work of Jane Austen, and Schitt’s Creek.
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