What the Hitler conspiracies mean
The Nazi dictator’s death in 1945 is well evidenced, but reports of his survival and escape to Argentina continue…
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Crashed
What Denmark’s mink cull reveals about the dangers of fur farming
Consumer demand is unlikely to die along with the 17 million mink culled in Denmark over coronavirus fears. Can anything…
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Virtuous Italy. Reckless Italy
In Milan, we were told defeating Covid-19 depended on following the rules. Amid a second wave and further tough restrictions, Italy’s…
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The year that shook the economy
Why was the UK hit harder than any other G7 economy? And what does the pandemic mean for its future model?
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Jimi Hendrix’s demons
Beneath the guitarist’s flamboyant virtuosity lay a life scarred by childhood neglect and depression.
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NS Recommends: New books from William Boyd, Sarah Maslin Nir, Daisy Lafarge, Siobhán McGuirk and Adrienne Pine
Boyd’s Trio, Nir’s Horse Crazy, Lafarge’s Life Without Air, and Asylum for Sale edited by McGuirk and Pine.
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The NS Poem: Trojan
A new poem by Paul Bailey.
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How Britain changed under Elizabeth II
Andrew Marr’s Elizabethans is a history of the British national spirit from 1953 to the present day.
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Barack Obama: the well-adjusted president
Obama is too comfortable in his own skin to make a revelatory biographer.
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How Joan Eardley painted the hard way
To depict the elements properly, Eardley immersed herself in them.
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Happiest Season is a warm, light-hearted festive romp
This Kristen Stewart-Mackenzie Davis romcom asks “What if Meet the Parents had been 90 per cent gayer?”
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Kirstie’s Handmade Christmas is a weird hybrid of Bake Off and Blue Peter
I know some people find this sort of thing, rope initials and all, comforting. But it doesn’t soothe me.
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How the Brits stole history
A new podcast from the Australian Broadcasting Company begins with a very simple premise: throughout the history of the…
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How pandemics shape town planning
Tuberculosis led to the rise of modernist public architecture. What will our cities look like after Covid-19?
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Why the English left should be wary of devolution
The creation of the Scottish parliament precipitated the collapse of more radical forms of territorial dissent, while failing to address…
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Philip Green: the emperor runs out of clothes
The mogul’s retail empire has crumbled. Is it all his fault?
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First Thoughts: Carole Cadwalladr vs Arron Banks, the truth about The Crown and no more full stops
A courtroom drama about the meaning of lies – and “inaccuracies” on Netflix.
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“The English believe their elites are a treacherous class”: James Hawes on his short history of England
The British author discusses the long shadow of the Norman Conquest – and how England never recovered from it.
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Commons Confidential: The puppet and puppeteer
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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No single word can sum up 2020 – a truth I have acknowledged while sub-editing this magazine
For the first time, the Oxford English Dictionary chose not to pick a Word of the Year – but Covid-19 has…
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As Christmas approaches, we should remember the pagan rituals that came before it
Now more than ever, we should learn from our prehistoric ancestors’ reverence for the Earth.
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Seeing a cat in a window was my Proustian moment, taking me back to the pub of my youth
The Green Dragon! The years roll away with a crash, and suddenly it’s 1984 again, and I’m getting pickled.
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This England: Given up the goose
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s Richard II, refers to the whole of Britain – has…
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I find myself in a garage, having lunch with the man who taught doctors how to talk to patients
My mentor, Peter Tate, dedicated his career to changing the poor culture of communication in medicine in the 1970s.
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Carmen Callil Q&A: “Everyone says: ‘Carmen, do stop’”
The publisher discusses the leaders of the French Revolution, watching Call My Agent and reading Charles Dickens.
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What the New Atheists got wrong
At a retreat centre that was once Buddhist, I realise the human yearning for religion can take us to…
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How the UK’s economic problems began long before the pandemic
The government’s “build back better” narrative renders the pandemic an opportunity – but ignores the fact that prior to Covid-19, something…
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Alan Rusbridger’s Diary: Robert Fisk, my struggles to sleep and what matters most about journalism
Does Rupert Murdoch tell his editors what to write? Did the late Robert Fisk make things up? Is objectivity…
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What a Biden administration means for the prospects of multilateralism
In rejecting the League of Nations, the US turned away from the world – but the president-elect could change…
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Is Keir Starmer a strategic mastermind or an opportunist driven by events?
Seen one way, the Labour leader has acted decisively and with principle. Seen another, he has reacted hastily to…
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Brexit emptied so many serious political minds of sense, on both sides of the issue. Now let it be
The best position on Brexit after this week is not that it was right or wrong but that it…
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Letter of the week: Could do better
A selection of the best letters received from our readers this week. Email our contact form to have your thoughts voiced…
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Leader: Reimagine the high street
Philip Green’s humbling should mark the end of an era of corporate recklessness – but for now, it has merely…
By The NS Poem: Trojan
A new poem by Paul Bailey.
By Philip Green: the emperor runs out of clothes
The mogul’s retail empire has crumbled. Is it all his fault?
By NS Recommends: New books from William Boyd, Sarah Maslin Nir, Daisy Lafarge, Siobhán McGuirk and Adrienne Pine
Boyd’s Trio, Nir’s Horse Crazy, Lafarge’s Life Without Air, and Asylum for Sale edited by McGuirk and Pine.
By How Britain changed under Elizabeth II
Andrew Marr’s Elizabethans is a history of the British national spirit from 1953 to the present day.
By Barack Obama: the well-adjusted president
Obama is too comfortable in his own skin to make a revelatory biographer.
By First Thoughts: Carole Cadwalladr vs Arron Banks, the truth about The Crown and no more full stops
A courtroom drama about the meaning of lies – and “inaccuracies” on Netflix.
By “The English believe their elites are a treacherous class”: James Hawes on his short history of England
The British author discusses the long shadow of the Norman Conquest – and how England never recovered from it.
By How pandemics shape town planning
Tuberculosis led to the rise of modernist public architecture. What will our cities look like after Covid-19?
By Commons Confidential: The puppet and puppeteer
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
By Happiest Season is a warm, light-hearted festive romp
This Kristen Stewart-Mackenzie Davis romcom asks “What if Meet the Parents had been 90 per cent gayer?”
By Kirstie’s Handmade Christmas is a weird hybrid of Bake Off and Blue Peter
I know some people find this sort of thing, rope initials and all, comforting. But it doesn’t soothe me.
By How the Brits stole history
A new podcast from the Australian Broadcasting Company begins with a very simple premise: throughout the history of the…
By What the New Atheists got wrong
At a retreat centre that was once Buddhist, I realise the human yearning for religion can take us to…
By As Christmas approaches, we should remember the pagan rituals that came before it
Now more than ever, we should learn from our prehistoric ancestors’ reverence for the Earth.
By How the UK’s economic problems began long before the pandemic
The government’s “build back better” narrative renders the pandemic an opportunity – but ignores the fact that prior to Covid-19, something…
By Alan Rusbridger’s Diary: Robert Fisk, my struggles to sleep and what matters most about journalism
Does Rupert Murdoch tell his editors what to write? Did the late Robert Fisk make things up? Is objectivity…
By Seeing a cat in a window was my Proustian moment, taking me back to the pub of my youth
The Green Dragon! The years roll away with a crash, and suddenly it’s 1984 again, and I’m getting pickled.
By No single word can sum up 2020 – a truth I have acknowledged while sub-editing this magazine
For the first time, the Oxford English Dictionary chose not to pick a Word of the Year – but Covid-19 has…
By What a Biden administration means for the prospects of multilateralism
In rejecting the League of Nations, the US turned away from the world – but the president-elect could change…
By This England: Given up the goose
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s Richard II, refers to the whole of Britain – has…
By Is Keir Starmer a strategic mastermind or an opportunist driven by events?
Seen one way, the Labour leader has acted decisively and with principle. Seen another, he has reacted hastily to…
By I find myself in a garage, having lunch with the man who taught doctors how to talk to patients
My mentor, Peter Tate, dedicated his career to changing the poor culture of communication in medicine in the 1970s.
ByEmail our contact form if you would like to be the New Statesman’s Subscriber of the Week.
By Carmen Callil Q&A: “Everyone says: ‘Carmen, do stop’”
The publisher discusses the leaders of the French Revolution, watching Call My Agent and reading Charles Dickens.
By Letter of the week: Could do better
A selection of the best letters received from our readers this week. Email our contact form to have your thoughts voiced…
By Leader: Reimagine the high street
Philip Green’s humbling should mark the end of an era of corporate recklessness – but for now, it has merely…
By Brexit emptied so many serious political minds of sense, on both sides of the issue. Now let it be
The best position on Brexit after this week is not that it was right or wrong but that it…
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