The chaos in the Tory party is down to Theresa May’s inadequacies
Amateurish attempts to trick Tory activists has damaged her, and her party’s prospects, dramatically.
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The Trump-Putin pact
We dismiss the threat of populist blowhards at our peril
Why the likes of Nigel Farage and Piers Morgan aren’t funny any more.
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Trump vs the world
He has antagonised the EU and insulted Theresa May – while cosying up to Putin and Kim. But the US…
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Loki’s Diary: Now I’ve won an Orwell Prize I’m mixing with the literati
The Scottish rapper and author on the madness of the media circuit, meeting Orwell’s son and refusing to pronounce…
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Putin and the wrecking ball
It caused anger and unease across the West, but the meeting between the Russian president and Donald Trump was not…
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The new Illiberal International
The dream of a united, integrated Europe is collapsing under the pressure of mass migration and the rise of…
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Meet Steve Baker, the Brexiteers’ shop steward
Forget the Tory big beasts, David Davis’s former deputy at DexEU is the man May really fears.
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The BBC can’t shut out Brexiteer voices, whether Remainers like it or not
The analogy of climate-change deniers is of little use.
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A victorious World Cup team made in the multiracial Paris banlieues
Football is the bit of French society where I’ve seen integration work best.
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How the bottled water industry conned us all
Figures show that in 2017, sales of bottled water overtook those of fizzy drinks in the US.
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What The War of the Worlds means now
Why the Victorian anxieties that underlie HG Wells’s masterpiece have never gone away.
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Richard Barbrook, the man war-gaming a Corbyn government
The Labour activist and founder of Class Wargames reveals how the left is preparing for power.
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Annie Ernaux: the objective, unseen reporter of her times
Ernaux’s The Years draws not only on her own life but on her long “communal memory”.
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In praise of the pollinators: why bees are even more important than you think
The public is obsessed with the domestic bee, but most people don’t know how many different kinds of bee…
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President Erdogan’s republic of fear
Turkish parliament has been stripped of crucial functions and many state institutions dissolved.
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Laurence Scott’s Picnic Comma Lightning: how to read modern life
On selfies and Nabokov, Fitbit and Brexit, Scott’s book veers between the superficial and the illuminating.
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How to crack consciousness
It’s what makes us human – but despite the best efforts of philosophy and science, the nature of our experience of…
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The Weight
The NS Poem: The Weight, in memoriam Danuta Danielsson
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Excess, abundance and addiction: the garish, ugly world of Lauren Greenfield’s Generation Wealth
This documentary heaves with Venice Beach brats with four-figure allowances, and strippers writhing around inhundred-dollar bills.
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Commons Confidential: Why Boris Johnson is likely to be left disappointed by coup against May
Your weekly dose of gossip from Westminster.
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Remembering the combative, charismatic director Claude Lanzmann
I met Lanzmann 15 years ago when I worked at the ICA in London. He brought his own temperature.
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The delicious, sticky darkness of HBO’s Sharp Objects
Dead girls, wrap-around porches and enervating humidity: this crime drama is like the bastard child of Carson McCullers and…
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Letter of the week: Counting Scotland’s wildcats
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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Hannah Gadsby’s Netflix special Nanette is a comedy show that hopes you don’t leave laughing
The show is a series of misdirections: a tricksy, self-conscious beast, full of sleight of hand.
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The Lehman Trilogy at the National: spectacular, elegant perfection
Simon Russell Beale, Ben Miles and Adam Godley play a whole host of men, women, babies and a range…
ByCampari’s gorgeous but politically flawed adverts show how bitterness and beauty can coexist
Leonetto Cappiello’s 1920s designs show the ambivalence of the times – perhaps of alcoholic gratification in any era.
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There’s a peculiar kind of pain in a farewell gig – especially if it’s Paul Simon
More family groups – baby boomer parents with adult children – than I have ever seen before fill Hyde Park…
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The contradictory desires of 17.4m Brexit voters can’t be satisfied by one deal
Worse, the flavour of Brexit that is most popular with Conservative MPs has no significant following in the country.
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I am happier than I’ve been in years. I am also extremely nauseous
Funny thing, nausea; when you’re in the grip of it you can’t think of anything else, and when it’s…
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Sherin Khankan Q&A: “If I had to define myself by one title, it would be activist“
The imam talks activists as politicians, her Syrian refugee father, and a non-digital world.
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The Telegraph is back to being the Daily Borisgraph
Paper not only published Johnson’s Pravda-style piece but ran a summary as the front-page splash.
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Leader: The summer of Southgate
A new sense of hope about what the English experience can be.
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Leader: Trump is more than a boastful buffoon
An America First nationalist, a protectionist, a xenophobe and the leader of a new Illiberal International.
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