Violence has infected our politics
The murder of Ann Widdecombe has one lesson: both left and right need to detoxify our public discourse
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David Mendelsohn: “The Odyssey is a blueprint for all comedy”
The Odyssey’s translator on Christopher Nolan’s new blockbuster
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Tennis is great – and it’s even better on the telly
Since a woman in her fifties exposed my service game,
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Count Binface’s theory of democracy
Continuous referenda and “ostracism” – this is the Athenian style of government
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Desperado’s last stand
June 2008: David Davis gives his all for a noble cause – and for himself
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Singburi of Shoreditch: If you can’t handle the heat, get out of the Thai kitchen
This is perfect food for a heatwave: spicy and light
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The anti-woke Westerners fleeing to Russia
Since 2024, thousands of “moral migrants” have gone looking for a different, and more conservative, kind of civilisation
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The Odyssey is more Hollywood than Homeric
Christopher Nolan’s film is an epic return to old-fashioned studio excess
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What did women want?
In the early-modern period, as in our own, the category of “woman” could take many shapes
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How is your metabolic health?
Modern lifestyles have made our most basic systems dysfunctional
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The fables and failures of Édouard Louis
Édouard Louis has become famous for mining his troubled family for material. Is he still as candid as before?
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Beer and Sandwiches: The Mill in Cambridge
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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Diane Morgan’s very human robot
Ann Droid is sadder and sweeter than the comedian’s famous work
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Madam President, Marine Le Pen?
With Marine Le Pen now free to run in next year’s election, France is entering uncharted political territory
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Strangers in our midst
Colin Grant once more brings us the voices of the British migrant experience too often ignored
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The reformed George Cottrell
Nigel Farage’s friend does him no favours by unveiling the dark art of money laundering
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The road to Nowhereville
“Build, baby, build”, yes – but Andy Burnham’s “place first” politics will need more thought than that
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America’s original biggest loser
The abuse suffered 250 years ago by Thomas Hutchinson for upholding the law has echoes in US governance today
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Vladimir Putin has no way out
But he may not want one
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Could Iran be America’s next Vietnam?
Then, the key to American failure was naivety – now, it is Donald Trump’s personal hubris
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