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As UK inflation hammers the poor, we need a revolution in policy

Labour should back a plan to cap prices and rents, and cut profits not wages.

By Paul Mason

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Did the UK perform better than thought on Covid-19?

Did the UK perform better than thought on Covid-19?

Philip Ball

Book of the Day

Against the Bolaño industry

Chris Power

Partner content

Why now is the time to propel healthcare into the next era

Why Stoicism isn’t just about you

Nancy Sherman

For only the second time, France has a female prime minister

French Election 2022

For only the second time, France has a female prime minister

Ido Vock

Invasion of Ukraine forces a reckoning for the Orthodox world

Kathryn David

Quickfire

Don’t give us “menstrual leave”, destigmatise sick leave

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Don’t give us “menstrual leave”, destigmatise sick leave

Emma Haslett

Zahawi misunderstands why Oxbridge lowers grades for students like me

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Zahawi misunderstands why Oxbridge lowers grades for students like me

Lauren Shirreff

From Our Writers

Freddie Hayward

Can the UK really afford a trade war with the EU?

Katie Stallard

Shaming mothers for not breastfeeding won’t solve formula shortages

Martin Fletcher

Boris Johnson’s government is morally and intellectually bankrupt

Anoosh Chakelian

“IT problems” don’t stop Rishi Sunak raising benefits, says Universal Credit creator

Politics

The Conservative Party is lost

By trying to please both free-marketeers and protectionists, the Tories will satisfy neither.

By Philip Collins

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David Miliband: “Only brilliant people win from the centre left”

David Miliband: “Only brilliant people win from the centre left”

Harry Lambert

The economic cost of Brexit is only getting worse

David Gauke

What if Keir Starmer’s gamble backfires?

Commons Confidential: Tories fear a kamikaze election

Kevin Maguire

Can Scottish Labour ever hope to challenge the SNP?

Can Scottish Labour ever hope to challenge the SNP?

Chris Deerin

Is Jeremy Hunt Johnson’s most dangerous Tory rival?

Harry Lambert

World

China’s repression of Uyghurs extends far beyond its own borders

Urgent action needs to be taken to combat Beijing’s transnational campaign against the ethnic minority.

By Bradley Jardine

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When will Vladimir Putin realise it is time to cut his losses in Ukraine?

When will Vladimir Putin realise it is time to cut his losses in Ukraine?

Lawrence Freedman

Rage against the regime: the Belarus ultras who stood up to Lukashenko

Maria Wilczek

China’s global coal machine won’t be stopped so easily

Nick Ferris

Europe’s new Iron Lady: Estonian prime minister Kaja Kallas

Jeremy Cliffe

Hong Kong’s authoritarian future is already here

Hong Kong’s authoritarian future is already here

Katie Stallard

The Democrats are in power – so why are they so powerless?

Jack Crosbie

Ideas

The war in Ukraine will only deepen the climate crisis

Anatol Lieven

How the Greek revolution made the modern world

Nick Burns

After the Zeitenwende: Jürgen Habermas and Germany's new identity crisis

After the Zeitenwende: Jürgen Habermas and Germany’s new identity crisis

Adam Tooze

What does Europe’s right want?

David Broder

Tell us who you really are, Keir Starmer

Richard Seymour

Philosophy's gentle giant

Philosophy’s gentle giant

Jeremy Waldron

Books and Culture

Where the internet went wrong – and how we can reboot it

The online world is run by tech companies that we depend on but deeply distrust. New books by Justin EH…

By William Davies

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What rocks teach us about the human condition

Book of the Day

What rocks teach us about the human condition

Kathleen Jamie

Rebels Against the Raj: A morality tale for Modi’s nationalist India

Thom Yorke’s the Smile sound a lot like Radiohead – and that’s no bad thing

Ellen Peirson-Hagger

Book of the Day

How Sergei Magnitsky paid with his life for exposing Vladimir Putin’s financial corruption

Katie Stallard

Florence and the Machine’s Dance Fever is a timeless, euphoric record

Florence and the Machine’s Dance Fever is a timeless, euphoric record

Emily Bootle

Netflix’s Clark is a failed attempt at self-aware true crime

Imogen West-Knights

Podcasts

Armando Iannucci: Is politics just a game to today's leaders?

Westminster Reimagined

Armando Iannucci: Is politics just a game to today’s leaders?

Armando Iannucci and Anoosh Chakelian

Will the Red Wall or beergate seal Keir Starmer’s fate?

The New Statesman podcast

Will the Red Wall or beergate seal Keir Starmer’s fate?

Anoosh Chakelian, Freddie Hayward and Ben Walker

Why the US Supreme Court is going backwards on abortion rights

Why the US Supreme Court is going backwards on abortion rights

Emily Tamkin, Katie Stallard and Rachel Cunliffe

A year inside GB News: "What the hell have we done?"

Audio Long Reads

A year inside GB News: “What the hell have we done?”

Stuart McGurk and Chris Stone

Business and Economics

How “time theft” became a popular idea ⁠— and why it’s dangerous nonsense

Will Dunn

“You’re made to feel like the criminal”: why victims of romance scams feel let down by banks

Sarah Dawood

Inflation is eating away at Britain’s schools and hospitals

Inflation is eating away at Britain’s schools and hospitals

Chart of the Day

How Right to Buy fuelled the housing crisis

Nicu Calcea

Are the Bank of England’s inflation experts fit for purpose?

Emma Haslett

"They have no respect for anything": the quiet remorse of the man who sold London to Putin's oligarchs

The Business Interview

“They have no respect for anything”: the quiet remorse of the man who sold London to Putin’s oligarchs

Emma Haslett

Environment

The Environment Interview

England on fire? Stephen Ellcock and the need for radical, noisy art

India Bourke

Wrong-headed food policies will lose the Tories their rural voters

Tim Lang

Why the world underestimates China's climate action at its peril

Why the world underestimates China’s climate action at its peril

Bernice Lee

Why climate doomism is not an option

Philippa Nuttall

UK offshore wind will be “more valuable” than North Sea oil ever was

Nick Ferris

George Monbiot: “Agriculture is arguably the most destructive industry on Earth”

George Monbiot: “Agriculture is arguably the most destructive industry on Earth”

Philippa Nuttall

The Long Read

Is a united Ireland now inevitable?

Is a united Ireland now inevitable?

As Sinn Féin surges with voters, Irish reunification seems closer than ever. But the real debate over what the new…

By Martin Fletcher

Magazine

Stalling Starmer

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Stalling Starmer

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What if Keir Starmer’s gamble backfires?

By Andrew Marr

Could Michelle O’Neill be Northern Ireland’s final first minister?

By Martin Fletcher

Europe’s new Iron Lady: Estonian prime minister Kaja Kallas

By Jeremy Cliffe

Spotlight

Pothole politics: A Tory councillor on Croydon in crisis

Regional Development

Pothole politics: A Tory councillor on Croydon in crisis

Samir Jeraj

NSA cyber chief: Even the good hactivists are problematic

NSA cyber chief: Even the good hactivists are problematic

Sarah Dawood

Economic growth won't fix the cost-of-living crisis

Regional Development

Economic growth won’t fix the cost-of-living crisis

Sarah Longlands

It’s not you – it’s your toxic corporate culture

It’s not you – it’s your toxic corporate culture

Alona Ferber