Steven Spielberg goes home
The director has returned to his adolescent roots in science fiction
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Trump is making America’s 250th birthday all about himself
The celebration has become a monument to monomania
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EU again?
Rejoiners trek to Brussels in search of redemption
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What Makerfield believes
Exclusive: focus groups reveal the values that will determine the by-election
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This is a by-election driven by despair
Residents feel let down by politicians on the left and on the right
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The British aristocracy has never been so wretched
Savage House is a perfect satire of upper-class social climbers, fraudsters and wannabes
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Flesh, death and bohemia
Peter Hujar and Paul Thek were at the heart of New York’s 1960s art scene but preferred the fringes
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Beer and sandwiches: At the Boot Inn in Tisbury
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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I’m surrounded by coppers for the first time since my LSD arrest
Free bottles of water are political correctness gone mad
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How to trivialise Brexit
This new documentary about the referendum is a very British waste of time
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I am filled with a menacing fear for the future
The Titanic on the horizon haunts my imagination
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The examined life of Brian Dillon
The cult writer’s new memoir describes a life lived in citation, in proximity to other minds
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World War III is here
The Arab Spring was the spark that lit the fuse of a global conflict Europe cannot escape
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Only a Burnham-Streeting alliance can save Labour
It’s not impossible
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Gisèle Pelicot’s battle isn’t over
Shame is changing sides, but it’s a work in progress
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PMQs: Starmer clashes with Farage over Henry Nowak
The Prime Minister insisted that “we must not allow this tragedy to be hijacked”
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Banning people for their ideas will backfire on Britain
No serious person believes that Hasan Piker or Cenk Uygur are a risk to public safety
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At SXSW London, politicians and Paddington’s dad take to the stage
The festival of AI optimism comes to London once again
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Peter Mandelson could not solve Labour’s woes
The former US ambassador was a morbid symptom of his party’s lack of direction
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Andy Burnham’s door-knock to Downing Street
On the campaign trail with the Manchester mayor in Makerfield
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