When people ask, “Could Trump happen here?” I often think about Dancing on Ice
Offered the chance to see skating performed by dedicated professionals, most of Britain would rather see it done badly by…
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Who’s running Britain?
Germany may pretend otherwise but it has reasons to fear a Europe without Britain
A country that long ago lost its taste for political gambles of the Cameron variety.
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The transformative rise of the smartphone in India
India’s digital revolution is being driven almost exclusively by the smartphone. But what are the effects of this love…
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Sex and death loom large in Luke Turner’s queer nature memoir, Out of the Woods
Book documents Turner moving closer and closer to Epping Forest, a site so filled with otherness and sex that…
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How do we ever escape our digital addiction when we’re checking our phones 150 times a day?
Arguably, what we’re doing online or on a screen is more important than how long we’re doing it for.
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Chigozie Obioma’s An Orchestra of Minorities combines Igbo folklore with Greek tragedy
Obioma’s second novel is a shaggy dog story about a hapless young poultry farmer.
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Yanis Varoufakis: Britain needs a People’s Debate, not a second Brexit referendum
If I had a magic wand by which to annul Brexit now, I would not use it.
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The first book from “Cat Person” author Kristen Roupenian is full of the horror of sex
Roupenian bites unsparingly into the darkest chambers of the human heart.
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William Keegan’s Diary: Bets on Brexit, cheated by Laurel and Hardy – and the loss of the subordinate clause
I confess to having placed money on Leave as a kind of pathetic insurance policy.
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How the unresolved eurozone crisis endangers us all
Germany’s commitment to austerity and its refusal to support fundamental reform of the euro is recklessly complacent.
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Anand Giridharadas interview: Why elite philanthro-capitalists do more harm than good
The author of Winners Take All on how the “fake change” offered by billionaires such as Mark Zuckerberg perpetuates “systems of…
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Reading the Odyssey on the Riviera dei Ciclopi
A new poem by Tarn MacArthur.
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Pierre Bonnard’s beauty and sadness
Pierre Bonnard painted what he remembered not what he saw, and his enigmatic pictures are ripe with the immanence…
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Danny Dyer’s Right Royal Family is brilliantly stupid fun
It’s less of a documentary, and more of an excuse to force Dyer to dress up in ridiculous costumes,…
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Sharon Van Etten’s Remind Me Tomorrow is her best work to date
In Van Etten’s new album, life’s mess is powerful and holding it all in your arms is a creative…
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Commons Confidential: Why the DUP’s next bung could be £8bn
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Breakneck montages, fantasy sequences, freeze-frames: Adam McKay’s Oscar-nominated Vice
The title has a double-meaning but I’d suggest a third: watching the film feels like having your head stuck…
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Crumbling Britain: How English schools are paying the price for austerity
Faced with rising pupil numbers, increasingly complex needs and inherited social work from stricken councils, teachers feel profoundly neglected.
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Great Lives: BBC Radio 4’s marvellous, witty tribute to Freddie Mercury
It is a joy to hear Matt Lucas and Matthew Parris delivering facts about Mercury fast and openly, without…
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Netflix’s Americanised British teen comedy Sex Education is deeply weird
Plus: Bandersnatch.
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Letter of the week: The EU’s socialist credentials
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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Food in 2019: this year’s defining flavours are tipped to be sour and bitter… or cannabis
CBD oil, a non-psychoactive cannabis extract, has been described as “the new avocado toast… much bigger than kale, much bigger…
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I really did it. I told two people in the Quiet Coach to stop talking
When you get into the noisy coach, though, your expectations are different. You resign yourself to pandemonium.
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Forget the cough sweets and folksy eulogies, George W Bush is to blame for the rise of Trump
If you disappear from the scene, people will start to miss you.
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She’s a creature only just alive, only just out of the darkness. And I’m her great aunt
A new baby is better than any mindfulness app for dragging you fully into the present moment.
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Rachel thought she’d had a heart attack. Could Brexit be to blame for her “broken heart syndrome”?
Curiously, Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, also known as broken heart syndrome, has a predilection for women, but occasionally occurs in men…
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First Thoughts: Diane Abbott vs Question Time, Prince Philip’s missing seat belt and Corbyn the caretaker PM
Two things are guaranteed to raise a laugh with TV audiences: one is Boris Johnson, the other is Labour’s…
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Clare Balding Q&A: “Sir Alex Ferguson is a good name to drop“
The broadcaster talks Killing Eve, Shirley Williams, and Stop Drifting, Start Rowing by Roz Savage.
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Philip May: the Prime Minister’s closest political adviser
Theresa May’s husband of nearly 40 years is her sounding board for every significant decision and speech.
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Leader: Ill fares the land
As a consequence of Brexit, the UK faces the prospect not merely of an independent Scotland but also a…
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