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Even in a season of goodwill, I look back in anger at the Tory mess that was 2022

It will take us a long time – far more than a single parliamentary term – to recover.

By Andrew Marr

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Keir Starmer: “Am I aiming to be just a one-term prime minister? No, of course not”

The Politics Interview

Keir Starmer: “Am I aiming to be just a one-term prime minister? No, of course not”

Rachel Wearmouth

Why is my rent so high?

Michael Walker

Why Brexit is back

Am I unwoke for not wanting an open relationship?

Pravina Rudra

Matt Hancock’s Pandemic Diaries are a delusional piece of self-aggrandising fan fiction

Book of the Day

Matt Hancock’s Pandemic Diaries are a delusional piece of self-aggrandising fan fiction

Rachel Cunliffe

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

Katie Stallard

Quickfire

We have not “run out of money” to pay strikers

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We have not “run out of money” to pay strikers

Tony Yates

Don't replace the House of Lords – do away with a second chamber altogether

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Don’t replace the House of Lords – do away with a second chamber altogether

James Snell

Politics

PMQs: Keir Starmer’s strategy is working

In today’s Conservative Party, MPs feel free to pick and choose which government policies to support. That makes Rishi Sunak look weak.

By Freddie Hayward

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House of Commons launches consultation on excluding MPs charged with sexual assault

House of Commons launches consultation on excluding MPs charged with sexual assault

Zoë Grünewald

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

Alona Ferber

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

Labour adds £5m to its election war chest

Rachel Wearmouth

Labour’s constitutional radicalism is what a broken system needs

Labour’s constitutional radicalism is what a broken system needs

Andrew Marr

Mhairi Black expected to stand for SNP Westminster deputy leader

Rachel Wearmouth

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

Regional Development

To forge a “New Britain”, Labour must rethink our economic system

Sarah Longlands

How Ukraine's energy grid teeters on the brink of collapse

Energy and Climate Change

How Ukraine’s energy grid teeters on the brink of collapse

Samir Jeraj

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

Anonymous

Energy and Climate Change

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

India Bourke

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

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Keir Starmer: “Am I aiming to be just a one-term prime minister? No, of course not”

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Winter Reflection: Fellowship of the flock

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