Rachel Reeves’ rage-bait Budget
The Chancellor’s set piece was a masterclass in political humiliation
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In this week’s issue
Books of the Year
What we read when politics has no narrative
There is still much to discover from the great show of life
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Leah Williamson: “We haven’t been brought up like boys in the Arsenal academy”
The England captain on the rapid changes of women’s football
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The thousand-amendment bill
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster
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A life altered by Alzheimer’s
Also this week: rediscovering a lost diary, and trying to complete my book in time
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Letter of the week: What would Harold Wilson do?
Write to [email protected] to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine
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Angela Rayner is Wes Streeting’s biggest obstacle to PM
But would she even want to be leader?
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The Budget has pushed Starmer and Reeves closer to the edge
The real threat is not a leadership challenge but parliamentary anarchy
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Americans don’t care about Britain
From the vast American planet, we are a distant satellite
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What baby books taught me about the British state
The Bookstart scheme, which gives books to newborns, is a remnant from a more beneficent political era
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Inside the battle to lead Your Party
The rivalry between Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana has devolved into factionalism and feuding
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Assisted dying’s disgraceful delay
While peers obstruct the bill, many like my brother Nicholas are condemned to suffer
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Donald Trump is making peace in Ukraine harder
America’s chaotic negotiations risk prolonging the chaos not ending it
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The book is dead? Long live the book!
We announce the New Statesman’s fiction and non-fiction books of the year
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Books of the year 2025
New Statesman writers and guests – including Jonathan Franzen, Jacqueline Rose, Marina Warner and Slavoj Žižek – choose their…
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It Was Just an Accident is a reckoning with the Iranian regime
Jafar Panahi’s experience as a prisoner makes his film a potent political statement
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The Abandons needs a better idea than “girlboss Western”
In an already stuffed TV Western market, this Gillian Anderson and Lena Headey version doesn’t offer much that’s new
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CMAT’s subversive hoedown
The Irish singer deftly bends the country genre to her will while blending her innermost thoughts with comedy
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Welcome to the supermarket class war
How Britain’s upper middle class learned to love expensive carrots
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There is no medical treatment for a radically altered body image
Sometimes all doctors have to offer patients is shared humanity
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Never recommend Philip Roth to your mother
Her face was a mask of horror
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This was the first Godless year of my life
But I am not quite done with Him yet
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This England: Up, up and away
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain…
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Looking-glass world
October 1977: Tom Stoppard on the trial of Havel, Lederer, Pavlicek and Ornest, for dissent against the republic.
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