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Liz Truss wants to govern a country that does not exist

The Prime Minister’s ideology blinds her to reality: Britain wants stability, not free-market revolution.

By George Eaton

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Liz Truss’s strident rhetoric cannot disguise her political weakness

Liz Truss’s strident rhetoric cannot disguise her political weakness

Rachel Wearmouth

Could a house price crash tame the UK’s depraved rental market?

Emma Haslett

The true cost of Liz Truss’s energy plan is dizzying

The Conservatives’ Great Leap Forward

James Meadway

Football’s data delusion

Book of the Day

Football’s data delusion

Simon Kuper

The meaning of North Korea’s nuclear opportunism

Katie Stallard

Quickfire

Suella Braverman dreams of a flight to Rwanda because it could never come true

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Suella Braverman dreams of a flight to Rwanda because it could never come true

Jonn Elledge

Why is Elon Musk wasting the goodwill he's built up over Ukraine?

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Why is Elon Musk wasting the goodwill he’s built up over Ukraine?

Oz Katerji

Politics

Liz Truss’s tax U-turn has emboldened Tory dissenters

The party conference is a festival of discord and the next fight is brewing over plans to cut benefits.

By Freddie Hayward

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Kwasi Kwarteng’s speech only revealed his contradictions

Kwasi Kwarteng’s speech only revealed his contradictions

Freddie Hayward

Kwasi Kwarteng forgot that radicalism needs to be matched by credibility

John McDonnell

Will Liz Truss’s U-turn on the 45p tax rate be enough to save her premiership?

Liz Truss and the rise of the libertarian right

Jeremy Cliffe

Fear and loathing at the Tory conference

Fear and loathing at the Tory conference

Charlotte Ivers

Behind Keir Starmer’s plan for a national green energy firm

Rachel Wearmouth

From Our Writers

Anoosh Chakelian

As Britain faces a hard winter, the 1 per cent will get richer

Martin Fletcher

Liz Truss has already proved to be the worst Tory prime minister yet

Jonn Elledge

History shows why the Tories have become addicted to regicide

India Bourke

The Tory “attack on nature” will undermine UK security

Ideas

Would there still have been climate change under socialism?

Leigh Phillips

Silence reigns

Rory Scothorne

Red love, for all

Red love, for all

Erin Maglaque

What is to be done about money?

Geoff Mann

Writing in the age of Big Data

Ryan Ruby

Metaverse in retrograde

Metaverse in retrograde

Justin EH Smith

World

How should the US respond to a Russian nuclear attack?

We are entering the most dangerous nuclear crisis since the 1980s.

By Anusar Farooqui

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Brazil's election proves it - the pandemic did not kill nationalist populism

Brazil’s election proves it – the pandemic did not kill nationalist populism

Jeremy Cliffe

Lula vs Bolsonaro: Brazil’s 2022 presidential election explained

Phil Clarke Hill

Ukrainians stand firm in the face of Putin’s threats

Alix Kroeger

How Mahsa Amini’s death set Iran on fire

Megan Gibson

Ukraine’s army makes a mockery of Vladimir Putin’s annexation

Ukraine’s army makes a mockery of Vladimir Putin’s annexation

Lawrence Freedman

What could happen if Russia used nuclear weapons?

Emily Tamkin

Books and Culture

We can’t consign Boris Johnson to history yet

Andrew Gimson’s biography of the former prime minister describes a man who can pull off a miracle. With the Tories…

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The cutting wit of Alan Rickman

The cutting wit of Alan Rickman

Anna Leszkiewicz

Lucian Freud’s pitiless style

The raucous return of Pussy Riot

Ellen Peirson-Hagger

Inside Man is the TV equivalent of a game of chess

Rachel Cooke

Why “Jerusalem” is the anthem England needs

Why “Jerusalem” is the anthem England needs

Billy Bragg

Industry is porn posing as prestige TV

Ann Manov

Podcasts

“The party leads everything” | China under Xi

“The party leads everything” | China under Xi

You Ask Us: submit your questions for New Statesman podcasts

You Ask Us: submit your questions for New Statesman podcasts

Rebellious Tory MPs look for Liz Truss’s successor

Rebellious Tory MPs look for Liz Truss’s successor

Labour is in an anti-London "Tory trap": Sadiq Khan vs Andy Burnham

Labour is in an anti-London “Tory trap”: Sadiq Khan vs Andy Burnham

Business and Economics

Bruce Daisley: “Twitter wasn’t set up to be about anger and rage”

Oscar Williams

“There’s only so much money you can spend”: why high fliers hate the top-rate tax cut

Emma Haslett

Is your pension safe?

Is your pension safe?

Emma Haslett

Why Amazon is raising the price of Prime in a cost-of-living crisis

Oscar Williams

Financial markets have rejected the Tories’ economic vandalism

Will Dunn

The Bank of England is right to hold its nerve

The Bank of England is right to hold its nerve

Will Dunn

Spotlight on Policy

Fracking is a distraction that won’t lower gas prices

Energy and Climate Change

Fracking is a distraction that won’t lower gas prices

Ruth Edwards

The Policy Ask with Clare Moriarty: “Renters have fewer options for lowering energy bills”

Energy and Climate Change

The Policy Ask with Clare Moriarty: “Renters have fewer options for lowering energy bills”

Spotlight

As prices rise, support for disabled people faces a £1bn shortfall

As prices rise, support for disabled people faces a £1bn shortfall

Polly Bindman

"We’re touchy about the term ‘managed decline’”: Joanne Anderson on being mayor of Liverpool

Regional Development

“We’re touchy about the term ‘managed decline’”: Joanne Anderson on being mayor of Liverpool

Jonny Ball

Environment

Five reasons Jacob Rees-Mogg is unfit to tackle the climate emergency

India Bourke

Can we save the Amazon rainforest from environmental destruction?

Nick Ferris

Mapped: UK fracking licences could impact one in four Tory constituencies

Mapped: UK fracking licences could impact one in four Tory constituencies

Ben van der Merwe and India Bourke

Save the planet by saving the pandas

Martha Gill

For king and countryside: William must surpass his father’s green legacy

India Bourke

Fracking and oil drilling doesn't just fail Britain, it fails the world

Fracking and oil drilling doesn’t just fail Britain, it fails the world

India Bourke

The Long Read

Notes on a mourning nation

Notes on a mourning nation

On the streets of London after the Queen’s death, our writer found grief, apathy – and a startling sense of…

By Matthew Engel

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The Truss Delusion

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Liz Truss and the rise of the libertarian right

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The unravelling of Vladimir Putin

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Metaverse in retrograde

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How Mahsa Amini’s death set Iran on fire

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