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ByA female leader and sex symbol, played by a 74-year-old woman? Has this happened before?
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ByYour weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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ByThe United team that lost to West Ham this season were devoid of identity and unacquainted with swagger.
ByA desire to change your body could drag all of that history back.
ByThis was about ruling that Johnson cannot set a precedent for prime ministers to close parliament to force through their…
ByTransforming the PLP is an essential prerequisite to maintaining the Corbynites’ control of the party, and yet they have managed…
ByWhenever there’s race to be debated, just page Barnes and up he pops, effortlessly filling airtime.
ByThe Blondie singer is a reluctant memoirist and what drove her to write this is unclear – but thank…
ByThe United team that lost to West Ham this season were devoid of identity and unacquainted with swagger.
ByA desire to change your body could drag all of that history back.
ByThe world’s largest international institutions continue to insist that “private financing” is the only way to avert climate apocalypse…
ByLearning from the Germans is a formidable account of how Germany and America have come to terms with (or…
ByYour weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
ByJoaquin Phoenix’s performance makes this film seem better than it is – but Joker remains insubstantial and inconsistent.
ByThe programme delves deep with frank interviews with old colleagues and archive recordings of Garland’s sublime voice and sparkling…
ByThe late president’s popularity across French society is in marked contrast to that of Emmanuel Macron, who is deemed to…
ByA female leader and sex symbol, played by a 74-year-old woman? Has this happened before?
ByA selection of the best letters received from our readers this week. Email letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced…
ByIt comes down to basic botany.
ByHow is it possible that I still keep forgetting, this many years after her death, that I can’t call…
ByThis was about ruling that Johnson cannot set a precedent for prime ministers to close parliament to force through their…
ByPerhaps I am becoming a breatharian, whose adherents claim to be able to survive for years without eating, subsisting…
ByTransforming the PLP is an essential prerequisite to maintaining the Corbynites’ control of the party, and yet they have managed…
ByTen years ago I could get physiotherapy appointments in weeks; now people wait months. As we struggle to control their…
ByIn the UK and the US, conservative politicians are moving leftwards as they confront market failure and excessive austerity.
ByThe author talks Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the work of Jane Austen, and Schitt’s Creek.
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