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

After failing to secure a victory in battle, the Russian president’s options are dwindling.

By Lawrence Freedman

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Philosophy's gentle giant

Philosophy’s gentle giant

Jeremy Waldron

Could a four-day week stop the next recession?

Will Dunn

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

The Tories have fallen into a housing black hole of their own making

Jonn Elledge

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

Book of the Day

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

Soumya Bhattacharya

Kendrick Lamar’s Mr Morale and the Big Steppers first listen: a brutally honest record

Musa Okwonga

From Our Writers

Philip Collins

The Conservative Party is lost

Rachel Cunliffe

Raise a spliff to Sadiq Khan, a politician brave enough to get real on drug reform

David Gauke

The economic cost of Brexit is only getting worse

Philippa Nuttall

Is the BBC misrepresenting climate change?

Politics

Is Jeremy Hunt Johnson’s most dangerous Tory rival?

As Hunt hints at a second leadership bid, he may emerge as the viable alternative many Conservatives are looking for.

By Harry Lambert

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What if Keir Starmer’s gamble backfires?

What if Keir Starmer’s gamble backfires?

Andrew Marr

Northern Ireland

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

Martin Fletcher

Why Keir Starmer is still on course to become prime minister

Commons Confidential: Tories fear a kamikaze election

Kevin Maguire

Scotland’s cosmopolitan turn

Scotland’s cosmopolitan turn

Rory Scothorne

How much peril is Boris Johnson in?

Harry Lambert

World

Hong Kong’s authoritarian future is already here

The selection of the former security chief John Lee as the city’s leader signals its repressive new reality.

By Katie Stallard

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

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

Jeremy Cliffe

Why is Finland joining Nato?

Ido Vock

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

Lawrence Freedman

“The Russians didn’t expect it”: Ukraine drones unit is the new face of warfare

Dominic Selwood

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

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

Nick Ferris

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

Jack Crosbie

Ideas

The rise of “rentier nationalism”

Political Economy Research Centre

The war in Ukraine will only deepen the climate crisis

Anatol Lieven

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

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

Adam Tooze

How the Greek revolution made the modern world

Nick Burns

What does Europe’s right want?

David Broder

Tell us who you really are, Keir Starmer

Tell us who you really are, Keir Starmer

Richard Seymour

Books and Culture

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

A new book by Bill Browder reveals the bravery of a young lawyer who uncovered a £185m state-sponsored tax fraud.

By Katie Stallard

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

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

Ellen Peirson-Hagger

Book of the Day

The infinite art of John Donne

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

Emily Bootle

Michelle Yeoh flits between universes in the hyperactive Everything Everywhere All at Once

Ryan Gilbey

Farewell to the iPod – and the age of the personal music library

Farewell to the iPod – and the age of the personal music library

Tom Gatti

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

Will Emmanuel Macron finally turn green rhetoric into radical action?

Philippa Nuttall

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

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

Tim Lang

Why climate doomism is not an option

Philippa Nuttall

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

Nick Ferris

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

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

Bernice Lee

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

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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

Andy Burnham: "I wouldn't rule out running for Labour leader"

Regional Development

Andy Burnham: “I wouldn’t rule out running for Labour leader”

Zoë Grünewald

The unacknowledged trauma epidemic

The unacknowledged trauma epidemic

Zoë Grünewald

Will "levelling up" outlast Boris Johnson?

Regional Development

Will “levelling up” outlast Boris Johnson?

Jonny Ball

How ransomware shut down an English council

How ransomware shut down an English council

Samir Jeraj

Quickfire

Cutting 91,000 civil servants is crude gesture politics

3 days ago

Cutting 91,000 civil servants is crude gesture politics

Len Shackleton

Why can't Labour get behind a woman leader?

3 days ago

Why can’t Labour get behind a woman leader?

Alona Ferber