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“Nobody took her seriously”: the rise, fall and rise of Suella Braverman

The Home Secretary is the daughter of immigrants, a Buddhist and a Francophone. Colleagues past and present reflect on her journey to the right – and top – of the Conservative Party.

By Martin Fletcher

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The Ukraine war is shifting Europe’s balance of power from west to east

The Ukraine war is shifting Europe’s balance of power from west to east

Jeremy Cliffe

Ofcom chair Michael Grade: “My opinions are valueless here – it’s liberating”

William Turvill

Why Brexit is back

Is Elon Musk too rich to fail?

Will Dunn

Nick Cave: “I don’t think art should be in the hands of the virtuous”

The Kate Mossman Interview

Nick Cave: “I don’t think art should be in the hands of the virtuous”

Kate Mossman

Book of the Day

How David Milch reinvented TV drama

Erica Wagner

Quickfire

Banning foreign students would backfire on levelling up

3 days ago

Banning foreign students would backfire on levelling up

Jonathan Portes

Black Friday’s green dilemma

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Black Friday’s green dilemma

India Bourke

Politics

Keeping quiet on Brexit is a shrewd move for Labour now, but a strategic disaster in the long term

What is the opposition’s thinking about Britain’s place in the world?

By Andrew Marr

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Supreme Court defeat should be a signal for Nicola Sturgeon to move on, but she won't

Supreme Court defeat should be a signal for Nicola Sturgeon to move on, but she won’t

Chris Deerin

How long can Suella Braverman hold on as Home Secretary?

Freddie Hayward

Brexit has made us poorer – but we’re trapped by a conspiracy of silence

Labour disowns “patronising and paternalistic” foreign aid

Rachel Wearmouth

The lessons of a housing tragedy, writing through rail chaos, and why good manners cost nowt

The lessons of a housing tragedy, writing through rail chaos, and why good manners cost nowt

Lisa Nandy

Chart of the Day

How net migration to the UK has hit record levels

Saywah Mahmood

From Our Writers

David Gauke

Why Brexit is back

Pippa Bailey

What Charles and Camilla’s dirty phone call taught us about the English language

Bruno Maçães

Inside the Twittering machine

Jonathan Liew

The Qatar World Cup is a moral disaster – is it braver to step away, or step inside?

World

Is Volodymyr Zelensky losing the support of the West?

The Ukrainian president’s political blunder over the Poland missile incident has irritated Western leaders, who are already showing signs of war fatigue.

By Katie Stallard

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Jens Stoltenberg: “We will support Ukraine for as long as it takes”

Jens Stoltenberg: “We will support Ukraine for as long as it takes”

Megan Gibson

The brutal methods of Russia’s Wagner Group

Ido Vock

What a strong midterms performance means for Joe Biden

Emily Tamkin

Joe Biden and Xi Jinping try to avoid a “new Cold War”

Katie Stallard

The reality of Sweden’s far-right future

The reality of Sweden’s far-right future

Karin Pettersson

Will America’s Gen Z save the world?

Jeremy Cliffe

Ideas

“Justice cannot be the lodestar of a new society”

Gavin Jacobson

Bruno Latour and the philosophy of life

Adam Tooze

The left’s patient gardener

The left’s patient gardener

Richard Seymour

When finance and oil collide

Helen Thompson

Why are Americans dying so early?

Nick Burns

Elon Musk’s useful philosopher

Elon Musk’s useful philosopher

Paris Marx

Books and Culture

What Don DeLillo saw coming

In 1985, White Noise captured America’s nascent attention economy. Can an $80m Netflix adaptation live up to his vision?

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The radical bookshops shaping Britain’s literary culture

The radical bookshops shaping Britain’s literary culture

Ken Worpole

Why the father-daughter drama Aftersun deserves all the awards

Luca Guadagnino’s Bones and All is a Gen Z-friendly cannibal romance

David Sexton

The Light We Carry: Michelle Obama’s self-help slogans

Lola Seaton

Hugo Blick’s masterful drama The English has left me in slack-jawed awe

Hugo Blick’s masterful drama The English has left me in slack-jawed awe

Rachel Cooke

The Wonder: Florence Pugh is controlled and commanding in this brilliant film

Pippa Bailey

Podcasts

Are 'Substackademics' the new public intellectuals? - Audio Long Reads

Audio Long Reads

Are ‘Substackademics’ the new public intellectuals? – Audio Long Reads

Chris Bickerton and Adrian Bradley

Can politics survive a post-truth world? with Armando Iannucci | Westminster Reimagined

Westminster Reimagined

Can politics survive a post-truth world? with Armando Iannucci | Westminster Reimagined

Why is Brexit back to haunt the Tory party?

Why is Brexit back to haunt the Tory party?

What’s the cost of Qatar’s World Cup?

What’s the cost of Qatar’s World Cup?

Business and Economics

Why the Conservatives will lose their war on working from home

Emma Haslett

How the Chinese takeover of the UK’s largest semiconductor factory unravelled

Oscar Williams

Behind the collapse of Made.com

Behind the collapse of Made.com

Emma Haslett

The UK economy is shrinking: only investment will save it

Emma Haslett

Elon Musk’s mismanagement suggests a dark future for Twitter

Will Dunn

Britain's racing inflation has a hidden cause: corporate greed

Britain’s racing inflation has a hidden cause: corporate greed

Will Dunn

Spotlight on Policy

The Chancellor’s funding won’t treat the NHS’s financial headache

Sally Warren

Energy and Climate Change

Meet the manager of a heat pump company who feels like starting a revolution

Samir Jeraj

Who’s in and who’s out at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities?

Regional Development

Who’s in and who’s out at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities?

Jonny Ball

The Policy Ask with Patricia Lewis: “Weapons treaties have been destroyed through political posturing”

Spotlight

Energy and Climate Change

“Tip of the shit-berg”: Surfers Against Sewage maps potentially illegal “dry spills”

India Bourke

The economic case for providing free school meals to more children

Cost-of-living Crisis

The economic case for providing free school meals to more children

James Bethell

Environment

Seven ways to make leaders act on the climate

New Statesman

Generation Greta: the school strike that went global

India Bourke

Robin Wall Kimmerer: “How strange to be a species that engineers its own demise”

Robin Wall Kimmerer: “How strange to be a species that engineers its own demise”

India Bourke

Amitav Ghosh: “Climate change is becoming an all-out war”

Philippa Nuttall

Letter from Brazil: the rainforest fights back

Andrew Downie

“Global problems must be tackled through global collaboration”: Ai Weiwei on his New Statesman cover

“Global problems must be tackled through global collaboration”: Ai Weiwei on his New Statesman cover

Ai Weiwei

The Long Read

The great attention deficit: what’s behind the rise in adult ADHD?

The great attention deficit: what’s behind the rise in adult ADHD?

No longer confined to “problem children”, ADHD diagnoses are booming – yet it’s a condition that remains widely misunderstood.

By Sophie McBain

Magazine

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Is Volodymyr Zelensky losing the support of the West?

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Jens Stoltenberg: “We will support Ukraine for as long as it takes”

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Inside the Twittering machine

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