Leader: Western disunity is a gift to Putin
The Russian president’s dream of an illberal world order must be thwarted.
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The Light that Failed
Letter of the week: What Chamberlain got right
Email letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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Boris Johnson’s refusal to resign shows his utter shamelessness
Rather than respecting “the will of the people”, the Prime Minister is using all possible forms of political skulduggery…
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Andrew Marr: Why I’m joining the New Statesman as political editor
Now I have a chance to speak to readers in my own voice, what species of hack, after more…
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UK wages fall below 2008 level
Real earnings are now lower than on the eve of the financial crisis.
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David Chalmers: “I’d love to come back every 100 years to take a look”
The techno-philosopher on why life may be a simulation.
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What would a Sunak government look like? Even the Chancellor doesn’t know
Sunak has swung from a self-proclaimed fiscal conservative to the Treasury’s biggest spender – who knows what Tory orthodoxy…
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As bruised as Boris Johnson is, Keir Starmer’s Labour knows he is still a formidable foe
Starmer’s strengthened party would still be better off removing the Prime Minister than facing him in another election.
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How Covid shook the West’s faith in itself and changed normal life forever
Lockdowns restricted people’s lives beyond recognition – but why did governments defer to the Chinese method of pandemic management?
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Why the ruthlessly brilliant, widely unpopular Man City deserve our respect
Pep Guardiola has created a team that defends in swarms, manipulates space and restricts their opponents options – yet…
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Why liberalism is in crisis
John Gray and Ross Douthat debate the decline of the West.
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Dispatch: Instead of panicking, Ukraine prepares for Putin
As Russian aggression increases, Kyiv readies itself for a possible full invasion. Yet the mood remains measured and calm
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“Just relax!” and other infuriating fertility advice
When friends and family repeatedly told me to stay calm, it had the opposite effect. But linking women’s chances…
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Why the wounds of Bloody Sunday have not healed, 50 years on
The murders of 14 civilians by the British Army in Northern Ireland in 1972 was covered up for decades…
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“Going for it” in the 1920s: how Cyril Power and Sybil Andrews captured an accelerated age
Jenny Uglow’s subtle and nuanced account follows two talented artists caught up in the whirl of postwar urban life.
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A Black Boy at Eton: a memoir that still shocks 50 years on
Revisiting Dillibe Onyeama's groundbreaking account of being one of the first black Africans to study at the elite school.
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The NS Poem: Invisible Hand Sings Carpe Diem
A new poem by Kathleen Winter.
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How animals are adapting to climate change
Books by Thor Hanson and Emma Marris offer new insights into how species are surviving and what we must…
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Labour needs to think small
Jonathan Rutherford’s urgent call for the party to focus on everyday life still falls prey to abstractions.
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Reviewed in short: New books by Tessa Hadley, Nadia Wassef, Cradle Community and Penelope Corfield
Free Love by Hadley, Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller by Wassef, Brick by Brick: How We Build a World…
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The rural fantasies of Helen Allingham
How the Victorian painter and illustrator excised the hard reality of country life and replaced it with poetry.
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“Deplorable things have happened”: inside Britain’s Second World War internment camps
Thousands of Germans were interned on the Isle of Man during the war – including the New Statesman’s chess…
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Pedro Almodóvar reaches new heights of sophistication with Parallel Mothers
In the director’s seventh film with Penélope Cruz, the personal and political combine in a mystery about motherhood and…
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The BBC’s The Responder: Not just another police drama
Martin Freeman gives a remarkable performance as a Merseyside bobby with a secret in this brilliant new BBC commission.
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BBC Radio 4’s Night Watch offers insight into female fear – but is it useful?
The shadow of Sarah Everard’s murder looms over this catalogue of women’s experiences of walking at night.
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On a menu of natural wines, I find a wonderland full of surprises
At Manteca our palates were cleansed between courses by a gorgeously perfumed, smoky orange wine from Primosic near the…
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Ranting, raving, and three-piece suits: a twitcher’s guide to manager-watching
Jürgen Klopp is a mix of passion and calm resignation, Pep Guardiola intellectualises it all. But it’s Antonio Conte…
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As I walk from Brighton into Hove I seem to pass through an invisible portal
If I were to make distinctions between the areas I would say that we are conceived in Kemp Town;…
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One of my old cassettes takes me back to when I was the moody girl on guitar
I hear myself giggle on the recording, but I can’t help noticing that I don’t say much. The boys…
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This England: Cheesed off
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain…
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Nick Charles Q&A: “Attaining sobriety takes permanent unlearning”
The founder of Alcohol Answers discusses his hero Lonnie Donegan, the courage of Winston Churchill and the hope he…
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