Andy Burnham knows our nostalgia
Would my grandparents have been able to build such lives today?
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In this week’s issue
After Keir Starmer
Meet the people who handle the King’s billions
The Crown Estate exists to spare us the humiliation of recognising that the King owns the sea
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Labour’s iron discipline
Also: interviewing Binface, and why I prefer Shostakovich to the World Cup
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Aunt Sally, Oxfordshire’s secret addiction
Watching the world singles final of England’s strangest and most mysterious field sport
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Inside Tucker Carlson’s homespun HQ
Also: Havana’s fight against sanctions, and the classroom I can’t forget
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Letter of the week: Defence, but at what cost?
Write to our contact form to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine
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With Burnham’s cabinet picks still unknown, MPs are struggling to control their anxieties
Culture change will require some “heads on spikes”, as one insider puts it
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Could Iran be America’s next Vietnam?
Then, the key to American failure was naivety – now, it is Donald Trump’s personal hubris
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King Charles’ decency is irrelevant
Andrew is no abberation. None of the royals deserve their moral authority
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The road to Nowhereville
“Build, baby, build”, yes – but Andy Burnham’s “place first” politics will need more thought than that
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After Keir Starmer
Can we move past our decade of failure?
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Madam President, Marine Le Pen?
With Marine Le Pen now free to run in next year’s election, France is entering uncharted political territory
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Vladimir Putin has no way out
But he may not want one
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America’s original biggest loser
The abuse suffered 250 years ago by Thomas Hutchinson for upholding the law has echoes in US governance today
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The fables and failures of Édouard Louis
Édouard Louis has become famous for mining his troubled family for material. Is he still as candid as before?
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What George Cottrell knows about money laundering
Nigel Farage’s friend does him no favours
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What did women want?
In the early-modern period, as in our own, the category of “woman” could take many shapes
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Strangers in our midst
Colin Grant once more brings us the voices of the British migrant experience too often ignored
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The Odyssey is more Hollywood than Homeric
Christopher Nolan’s film is an epic return to old-fashioned studio excess
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Diane Morgan’s very human robot
Ann Droid is sadder and sweeter than the comedian’s famous work
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The anti-woke Westerners fleeing to Russia
Since 2024, thousands of “moral migrants” have gone looking for a different, and more conservative, kind of civilisation
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Mick and Keith’s album is reassuringly Rolling and serviceably Stones
Richards doesn’t know how Robert Smith got on the band’s new record, Foreign Tongues
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Singburi of Shoreditch: If you can’t handle the heat, get out of the Thai kitchen
This is perfect food for a heatwave: spicy and light
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Beer and Sandwiches: The Mill in Cambridge
This column is our weekly pub review, written by pintsmen, women and children across the nation. Suggestions to our contact form
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Watching England is agony. Why do we do it?
Should we get past Argentina, and even win the final, expect Andy Burnham to take full credit
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Count Binface’s theory of democracy
Continuous referenda and “ostracism” – this is the Athenian style of government
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How is your metabolic health?
Modern lifestyles have made our most basic systems dysfunctional
ByDesperado’s last stand
June 2008: David Davis gives his all for a noble cause – and for himself
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Tennis is great – and it’s even better on the telly
Since a woman in her fifties exposed my service game,
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