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

The biggest danger facing the First Minister now is that all this upheaval could poison her legacy.

By Chris Deerin

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

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

William Turvill

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

Katie Stallard

Why Brexit is back

What Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie gets wrong about free speech

Tomiwa Owolade

Emmanuel Macron: the man who would be king

Emmanuel Macron: the man who would be king

Jeremy Cliffe

The Tories’ unpopularity among the young isn’t a woke conspiracy

Rachel Cunliffe

Quickfire

By protecting private schools, Rishi Sunak is chasing voters who don’t exist

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By protecting private schools, Rishi Sunak is chasing voters who don’t exist

John Oxley

The innocent insidiousness of "Where are you from?"

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The innocent insidiousness of “Where are you from?”

Ariane Sherine

Politics

Rishi Sunak braces for electoral defeat in the Chester by-election

If the Tory vote in the constituency collapses today, it will be a sharp reminder of the kind of voters the party is losing.

By Rachel Wearmouth

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PMQs: Rishi Sunak on the ropes over tax breaks for private schools

PMQs: Rishi Sunak on the ropes over tax breaks for private schools

Rachel Wearmouth

How long can Rishi Sunak hold on to No 10?

Rachel Wearmouth

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

Commons Confidential

Andy Burnham burnishes his brand on Labour’s left

Kevin Maguire

Lib Dems target Labour over failure to promise electoral reform

Lib Dems target Labour over failure to promise electoral reform

Freddie Hayward

“You don’t trash your neighbours”: David Lammy on global Britain under Labour

Harry Lambert

From Our Writers

Martin Fletcher

Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer have capitulated to the Brexit zealots

Pippa Bailey

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

Bruno Maçães

Inside the Twittering machine

Tomiwa Owolade

The quiet revolution in black British identity

World

China’s Jiang Zemin has died. That could be a problem for Xi Jinping

The deaths of former senior leaders have led to mass protests in the country before.

By Katie Stallard

Photo of China’s Jiang Zemin has died. That could be a problem for Xi Jinping

Is Volodymyr Zelensky losing the support of the West?

Is Volodymyr Zelensky losing the support of the West?

Katie Stallard

The brutal methods of Russia’s Wagner Group

Ido Vock

What a strong US midterms performance means for Joe Biden

Emily Tamkin

The reality of Sweden’s far-right future

Karin Pettersson

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

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 cells tell us about life

Siddharta Mukherjee’s new study of how cells work reveals the complexities of the human body – and the science that…

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

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

Tomiwa Owolade

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”

The Kate Mossman Interview

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

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?

Why are so many Conservative MPs standing down? With Charlotte Ivers

The New Statesman podcast

Why are so many Conservative MPs standing down? With Charlotte Ivers

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

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

Energy and Climate Change

“This is not new stuff”: the verdict on the government’s home insulation scheme

Samir Jeraj

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

Charles Walker

What are the latest updates to the Online Safety Bill?

What are the latest updates to the Online Safety Bill?

Sarah Dawood

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

Sally Warren

Orbiting debris is making satellite missions uninsurable

Samir Jeraj

Labour’s target of net zero by 2030 is impossible without planning reform

Energy and Climate Change

Labour’s target of net zero by 2030 is impossible without planning reform

Sam Dumitriu

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

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Emmanuel Macron: the man who would be king

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

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

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

By Anoosh Chakelian

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