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Does Inter Alia understand the manosphere?

Suzie Miller’s play takes the debate and turns it on its head – but the message is muddled

By Faye Curran

Will the Birmingham bin strike ever end?

More than a year since the conflict began, strikers are waiting on the picket line for resolution

By Rhi Storer

After Iran, America may turn against Israel

The real special relationship is unravelling

By Freddie Hayward

Scottish Labour’s campaign is already starting to fall apart

For all their self-confidence, Anas Sarwar’s team surely cannot believe they’re marching to victory

By Chris Deerin

Anna Wintour can’t let go of Vogue

The ex-editor on the cover? For spring? Groundbreaking.

By Zoë Huxford

The Green Party is using housing inequality to punish Labour

Swing voters in the local elections are drifting away from the government over this issue

By Megan Kenyon

Capping interest on student loans won’t help most graduates

Ministers will no doubt spin this as a major intervention to help struggling young people

By Rachel Cunliffe

The silent coup

How AI captured Westminster

By Will Dunn

Patrick Radden Keefe’s obituary for Britain

He believes London is a dying, amoral city

By Nicholas Harris

From the archive: An oral history of Suez

February 1987: How did the British state react to humiliation?

By Peter Hennessy

John Lanchester’s personal venom

John Lanchester’s new novel offers a darkly funny vision of bitter London professionals

By Zoe Guttenplan

Please, come in to my apartment. No, I don’t have any chairs

The London housing market forces the urgent question: what if you ate that ricotta on the floor

By Finn McRedmond

How to paint a new country

Konrad Mägi mined various early-20th-century styles to create a restless national vision for Estonia

By Michael Prodger

Albert Camus, estranged

François Ozon subtly updates The Stranger and its author’s attitudes to French colonialism

By David Sexton

Kathleen Stock, born-again conservative

The philosopher’s new book on assisted dying is part of a developing critique of moral libertarianism

By Tom Whyman

Can Green councils avoid austerity?

Campaigners are concerned the party will have to make cuts after the May elections

By Megan Kenyon

Unlike France, Britain’s roads practically sparkle with litter

At least we don’t have a borderline sociopath in charge

By Tom McTague

Beer and sandwiches: At Big John’s Biltong Bar in Deptford

This column is our weekly pub review, written by pintsmen, women and children across the nation. Suggestions to letters@newstatesman.co.uk

By New Statesman

Jan Morris’s defiant life

The transgender travel writer was both temperamentally conservative and deeply unconventional

By Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Gwendoline Riley is haunted by herself

The author’s new novel, Palm House, lacks her usual virtuosity

By Lola Seaton