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At the free speech festival, people were prophesying a race-fuelled civil war
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Doom Loop
France and the UK are declining together
They’re in a worse state than my old Ford C-Max
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Sane Tories fear Rupert Lowe recruit
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster
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University’s all French to me
Also this week: losing to my daughter, and puffed-out Paris policemen
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Piers Morgan on monarchy, Rupert Murdoch and Paul Marshall
How did the broadcaster become the most successful hack in Britain?
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Letter of the week: Why not means-test pensions?
Write to [email protected] to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine
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The Trump regime wants to make America white again
Maga is calling for naturalised citizens to be denied the same rights as US-born ones
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How the Prince Andrew saga overshadowed Virginia Giuffre’s tragic life
Amid the royal fallout, we should not forget Jeffrey Epstein’s victims
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Keir Starmer’s circle of friends is perilously small
Is karaoke club the answer?
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Exclusive: Racist attacks on public transport rise 67 per cent in three years
The British public are no longer ashamed of their bigotry
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I thought Labour would fix everything. I was wrong
Britain has become ungovernable
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Why I am not a post-liberal
Hobbesian liberalism is the only way to rescue British society
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Welcome to Viagra Town
How did a small former fishing village in rural Ireland come to be responsible for maintaining the world’s erections?
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Jon Fosse’s war on convention
In his first novel since winning the Nobel Prize, the Norwegian author heads a radical counter-movement in publishing that…
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Surviving 491 days in Hamas captivity
Eli Sharabi’s agonising memoir explores how the world nearly forgot the Gaza hostages
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Britain’s Fawlty state of mind
Fifty years after it was first aired, Fawlty Towers now looks ahead of its time
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Klaus Kinski, wrath of god
Benjamin Myers’ new novel follows the actor trailing both chaos and charisma in one infamous theatre production about Christ
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The NS Poem: Beaded Chestnut
A new poem by Simon Armitage
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How to sell priceless stolen jewels
The Mona Lisa won fame by being stolen, but returned, will the same happen to the Louvre jewels?
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Jeremy Allen White is wasted as Bruce Springsteen
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere is let down by simplistic storytelling
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Harlan Coben’s Lazarus will make you feel a bit queasy
Coben’s new Amazon show is utterly implausible, absurdly pacy, and has more twists and turns than Thorpe Park
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The timeless triumph of Cymande, godfathers of hip-hop
For a band that disbanded in 1975, it is glorious to see them get the recognition they deserve
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Wine and mussels in Reform’s boozy heartland
Every political movement has its scene. I found Nigel Farage’s in Belgravia
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Maga’s distrust of paracetamol is a distrust of science
The new American right equates correlation with causation
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Six hours in hospital was a test of my rich inner resources
You can’t help but have a torrid time when waiting for six hours and only being seen by the…
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How do I know if I want children enough?
Watching my friends get married and buy houses and have babies reminds me I once imagined these things for…
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This England: How do you like them apples?
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain…
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Sucking up to China has failed before
December 1998: Jonathan Mirsky calls on Western leaders to challenge China on human rights
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