Putin plans to break Ukraine – with Trump’s help
Donald Trump has reached the screaming-into-the-void phase of this presidency. This is Europe’s war now
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Magistrates’ courts can’t fix our justice deadlock
Despite the fanfare about Burnham saving jury trials, the core of Starmer and Lammy’s proposals remain
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Steven Pinker: “Something that’s arbitrary can be highly rational”
The cognitive psychologist on violence, the Enlightenment and the reasons we never say what we mean
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The end of Andy Burnham’s beginning
The Prime Minister has proved he can reunite Labour’s 2024 coalition – but he has more work to do
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Confessions of a dissident Jew
Even as their humanity is threatened, Palestinians are using literature to preserve it
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What Holborn and St Pancras voters wanted
Exclusive polling reveals residents rejected the Greens in order “not to undermine the Labour government”
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The Green Party has urgent work to do
The “Zionism is racism” motion crossed a very significant red line
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Why the Greens lost
Zack Polanski can’t simply blame Andy Burnham – his brand is more toxic than it used to be
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Zack Polanski has disappointed his party
His defeat in Holborn and St Pancras will be read by internal critics as a failure of leadership and strategy
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Did Jeffrey Archer ever write a good novel?
The late author’s first-hand knowledge of politics and roguery makes for entertaining reading
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Night owls aren’t lazy – we’re being punished for our biology
Society rewards early risers. But what if our body clocks have other ideas?
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Brighton and Hove City Council is ruining my life
Maybe East Finchley isn’t so bad after all
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Beer and sandwiches: At the Prince Albert in Brighton
This column is our weekly pub review, written by pintsmen, women and children across the nation. Suggestions to letters@newstatesman.co.uk
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My quest for London’s best croissant
Is an artisanal pastry really eight times better than one from a Tesco Metro?
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Who’s afraid of a perfect revival?
Gillian Anderson is all hard angles and edges in an electric production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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Emmanuel Carrère betrays his parents
The French novelist and screenwriter’s new book is an unsparing yet seductive portrait of his parents
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Was Britain really better off in the 1980s?
Andy Burnham and Nigel Farage are obsessed with the decade for different reasons
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Could I survive the apocalypse?
How to eat well during a national disaster
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Romancing the French Riviera
In the 19th century, painters found an untouched and utopian new subject in the Mediterranean coastline
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East of Eden is an Atlantic crossing
The new Netflix adaptation is epic, if epic means slow
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