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Is Keir Starmer brilliant or just lucky?

The Labour leader’s advance owes more to Tory failure than to any success on his part.

By Harry Lambert

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Wealthy Russians are once more buying their way into the UK

Wealthy Russians are once more buying their way into the UK

Emma Haslett

Posh but poor? The return of the squeezed middle

Anoosh Chakelian and Nick Ferris

Why Brexit is back

Labour’s constitutional radicalism is what a broken system needs

Andrew Marr

Picture books of the year

Picture books of the year

Gerry Brakus

Is this the beginning of the end for China’s zero-Covid policy?

Katie Stallard

Quickfire

Starmer’s wrong – everyone knows we’d be better off reversing Brexit

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Starmer’s wrong – everyone knows we’d be better off reversing Brexit

Jonathan Portes

The risky genius of Ben Stokes

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The risky genius of Ben Stokes

Tim de Lisle

Politics

Labour adds £5m to its election war chest

The party’s “prawn cocktail offensive” seems to be getting results.

By Rachel Wearmouth

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Mhairi Black expected to stand for SNP Westminster deputy leader

Mhairi Black expected to stand for SNP Westminster deputy leader

Rachel Wearmouth

Ian Blackford’s resignation shows Nicola Sturgeon’s grip is slipping

Chris Deerin

How the UK’s only feminist party came out in favour of gender self-ID

Labour’s manipulation of selection contests reveals its emptiness of purpose

Neal Lawson

Growth through devolution will be Labour’s election pitch

Growth through devolution will be Labour’s election pitch

Freddie Hayward

Keir Starmer’s mildly authoritarian streak chimes perfectly with these troubled times

Andrew Marr

From Our Writers

Sarah Manavis

You’re doing it wrong: why are strangers on social media trying to micromanage my life?

Jonn Elledge

Nigel Farage and the hysterical right know they’ve lost

Tomiwa Owolade

The quiet revolution in black British identity

Hannah Rose Woods

Instead of insulating from winter, I have decided to expose myself to it

World

Europe’s far-right parties are learning from one another

With the hard right in power in Italy and Sweden, sister parties across the EU are hoping they will be next.

By Ido Vock

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Nick Fuentes: the white supremacist travelling with Kanye West

Nick Fuentes: the white supremacist travelling with Kanye West

Emily Tamkin

The brutal methods of Russia’s Wagner Group

Ido Vock

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

Megan Gibson

Is Volodymyr Zelensky losing the support of the West?

Katie Stallard

What do China’s lockdown protests mean for Xi Jinping?

What do China’s lockdown protests mean for Xi Jinping?

Katie Stallard

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

Netflix’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover is a completely pointless adaptation

This film swaps the darkness and brutality of DH Lawrence’s novel for tender scenes of dancing in the rain.

By Tomiwa Owolade

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What cells tell us about life

What cells tell us about life

Henry Marsh

Even Claudia Winkleman can’t make The Traitors watchable

The instant political histories that nobody needs

Philip Collins

The hypocrisy of Zara McDermott’s disordered eating documentary

Zoë Grünewald

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

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

Kate Mossman

How Eric Ravilious found the soul of England

Michael Prodger

Podcasts

World Prince: what drives Emmanuel Macron’s global ambitions? – Audio Long Reads

Audio Long Reads

World Prince: what drives Emmanuel Macron’s global ambitions? – Audio Long Reads

Jeremy Cliffe

Can Britain make Brexit work? With Armando Iannucci | Westminster Reimagined

Can Britain make Brexit work? With Armando Iannucci | Westminster Reimagined

Redrawing the UK’s electoral map: who’s set to win and lose?

Redrawing the UK’s electoral map: who’s set to win and lose?

Where do China’s lockdown protests go from here?

Where do China’s lockdown protests go from here?

Business and Economics

The Tories are planning to leave the housing crash for the next government

Emma Haslett

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

Oscar Williams

Most UK businesses see no benefit in post-Brexit deregulation

Most UK businesses see no benefit in post-Brexit deregulation

Emma Haslett

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

Will Dunn

Is Elon Musk too rich to fail?

Will Dunn

“What Rishi Sunak is doing is lunacy”: the City’s favourite strategist on the economy’s hidden dangers

“What Rishi Sunak is doing is lunacy”: the City’s favourite strategist on the economy’s hidden dangers

Will Dunn

Spotlight on Policy

No one will be safe online until we break Big Tech’s toxic algorithms

Susie Alegre

The next financial crisis is brewing in the UK’s corporate debt market

Charles Walker

Cop15: the most important summit you’ve never heard of

Energy and Climate Change

Cop15: the most important summit you’ve never heard of

India Bourke

I’m a paramedic – here’s why I’m striking

Anonymous

Energy and Climate Change

The UK still has some way to go to meet its renewable electricity target

Aisha Majid

Orbiting debris is making satellite missions uninsurable

Orbiting debris is making satellite missions uninsurable

Samir Jeraj

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

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

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

She is the daughter of immigrants, a Buddhist and a Francophone. Colleagues reflect on the making of the Home Secretary.

By Martin Fletcher

Magazine

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Emmanuel Macron: the man who would be king

By Jeremy Cliffe

Piers Morgan: “The TalkTV ratings ate at my soul like a flesh-eating bug”

By William Turvill

Gordon Brown: Why it’s time to take the shame out of need

By Gordon Brown

“It’s constant anxiety”: inside the crisis in child social care

By Anoosh Chakelian

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