Why I wept at spring’s arrival
Winter is about stasis, but spring brings change and progress – and dear God, never have we all needed…
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Humanity vs the virus
Can humanity conquer the virus?
Evolution has always been indifferent to the myth of inevitable human progress. Now, in the age of Covid-19, it…
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The innovation trap: how the economy of ideas creates inequality
The creativity and technological development seen by many as essential to economic growth come with hidden costs to society.
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The hidden disappointment of NC Wyeth
Despite his immense success as an illustrator of children’s classics, the artist longed for respect as a painter.
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A new podcast promises to provide insight into Gen Z life – but proves an infuriating, outdated listen
Although it covers important and sensitive issues, Chloe Combi’s “You Don’t Know Me” can feel exploitative in its approach.
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Sky’s Your Honor is a gripping reinterpretation of law and order
Though I felt physically ill after the first episode, Peter Moffat’s new legal drama is a mesmerising, albeit gory,…
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Why Bill Forsyth’s Housekeeping is a stranger, sadder film than it first appears
Set in the 1950s, the movie is a lesson in the suffocating domesticity that women of that time faced.
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The Berlin Philharmonic’s “The Golden Twenties” brings to life the city of that decade
From their plush “Digital Concert Hall” you can listen to Thomas Søndergård conduct the magnificent orchestra.
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Simon Akam’s The Changing of the Guard exposes the failures of the British army
This detailed, academic book argues flawed leadership led to military disaster in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Carol Dyhouse’s Love Lives examines how Cinderella stories have shaped women’s expectations
By focusing on fairy tales, Dyhouse gives a sense of narrative cohesion to the fitful, complex, uneven revolution in postwar…
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Sex, scandal and high society in Chips Channon’s uncensored diaries
Channon was a snobbish, sexually voracious Tory who revered Hitler – and a new edition of his journals shines a startling…
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How Ishiguro rewrote himself
The Nobel winner’s cryptic new novel is the result of a decades-long rejection of “well-formed” fiction.
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NS Recommends: New books from Peter Oborne, Nadia Owusu, Eimear McBride and Jeremy Cooper
The Assault on Truth by Oborne, Aftershocks by Owusu, Mouthpieces by McBride, and Bolt from the Blue by Cooper.
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The NS Poem: In praise of skinny lads
A new poem by Tamsin Hopkins.
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First Thoughts: Roy Greenslade, Fleet Street editor, preacher of media ethics, and IRA apologist
After Greenslade’s declaration of support for the IRA, his high-minded media columns for the Guardian now look shabby.
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Commons Confidential: Yearning for Dom
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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How Covid-19 created a new hierarchy of suffering
Private trauma has been overshadowed by the public health emergency, leading many to feel their individual troubles count for less.
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“Help for my junior doctors isn’t there”: Dr Hilali Noordeen on burnout in the NHS
After 36 years of working in the NHS, the surgeon warns that his colleagues on Covid-19 wards need more support.
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Letter of the week: Johnson the game-player
A selection of the best letters received from our readers this week. Email [email protected] to have your thoughts voiced…
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Leader: Lost Labour
Keir Starmer’s party seems to have lost confidence in what it is, what it wants and for whom it…
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Growing up in industrial towns, I followed the tracks of animals to seek out small pockets of woodland
Sadly, I realised that these unintended sanctuaries were temporary and would soon fall to the developers.
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For most of us, lockdown life will pass. But for some, there is no “getting back to normal”
As we battle with lockdown fatigue, I remember that those who live with disability or chronic illness always operate within such…
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This England: Get into jail free
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s Richard II, refers to the whole of Britain…
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Anne Boden Q&A: “I come from a long line of strong, determined women“
The founder of Starling Bank discusses classroom rivalry, robots of the future and the Welsh painter Ceri Richards.
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I’m not sure which I fear more, Legionnaires’ disease or the thought of a stranger in the flat
After me only two people have ever been inside my home, largely because it is rarely in a fit…
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Why the government must reverse the drastic cuts in aid to Yemen
The disastrous move is as close to snatching food from the mouths of babes as politics ever gets.
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Why Twitter is a trap for politicians
Social media entices public figures with its promises of stardom – but there too lies its danger.
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Why my New Statesman reviewer is wrong to fear Brexit
We will soon see the UK is better out of the EU than in it.
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Stuart Maconie’s Diary: Grief in lockdown, the rise of canal-side courting and why I’m still quizzing
With no pubs or restaurants, it’s as if we’ve returned to Thomas Hardy’s Wessex, where awkward young farmhands called on…
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The suicide rate among girls is higher than ever, as toxic social media becomes all-consuming
Researchers have discovered that heavy use of social media, for adolescent girls, is correlated more strongly with anxiety and…
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Why I’m no longer worried about family reading the sex scenes in my novel
I had visions of book burnings and scarlet letters, but then I remembered: parents are adults, too…
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Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer are asking the same old question: Labour spending or Tory austerity?
The Chancellor’s hope is that the country may now have an appetite to reduce debt, leaving Labour in a potentially disastrous…
ByEmail [email protected] if you would like to be the New Statesman‘s Subscriber of the Week.
By This England: Get into jail free
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s Richard II, refers to the whole of Britain…
By Anne Boden Q&A: “I come from a long line of strong, determined women“
The founder of Starling Bank discusses classroom rivalry, robots of the future and the Welsh painter Ceri Richards.
By For most of us, lockdown life will pass. But for some, there is no “getting back to normal”
As we battle with lockdown fatigue, I remember that those who live with disability or chronic illness always operate within such…
By I’m not sure which I fear more, Legionnaires’ disease or the thought of a stranger in the flat
After me only two people have ever been inside my home, largely because it is rarely in a fit…
By Growing up in industrial towns, I followed the tracks of animals to seek out small pockets of woodland
Sadly, I realised that these unintended sanctuaries were temporary and would soon fall to the developers.
By A new podcast promises to provide insight into Gen Z life – but proves an infuriating, outdated listen
Although it covers important and sensitive issues, Chloe Combi’s “You Don’t Know Me” can feel exploitative in its approach.
By Sky’s Your Honor is a gripping reinterpretation of law and order
Though I felt physically ill after the first episode, Peter Moffat’s new legal drama is a mesmerising, albeit gory,…
By Why Bill Forsyth’s Housekeeping is a stranger, sadder film than it first appears
Set in the 1950s, the movie is a lesson in the suffocating domesticity that women of that time faced.
By First Thoughts: Roy Greenslade, Fleet Street editor, preacher of media ethics, and IRA apologist
After Greenslade’s declaration of support for the IRA, his high-minded media columns for the Guardian now look shabby.
By Commons Confidential: Yearning for Dom
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
By The Berlin Philharmonic’s “The Golden Twenties” brings to life the city of that decade
From their plush “Digital Concert Hall” you can listen to Thomas Søndergård conduct the magnificent orchestra.
By How Covid-19 created a new hierarchy of suffering
Private trauma has been overshadowed by the public health emergency, leading many to feel their individual troubles count for less.
By Why I’m no longer worried about family reading the sex scenes in my novel
I had visions of book burnings and scarlet letters, but then I remembered: parents are adults, too…
By Why Twitter is a trap for politicians
Social media entices public figures with its promises of stardom – but there too lies its danger.
By The suicide rate among girls is higher than ever, as toxic social media becomes all-consuming
Researchers have discovered that heavy use of social media, for adolescent girls, is correlated more strongly with anxiety and…
By Why my New Statesman reviewer is wrong to fear Brexit
We will soon see the UK is better out of the EU than in it.
By NS Recommends: New books from Peter Oborne, Nadia Owusu, Eimear McBride and Jeremy Cooper
The Assault on Truth by Oborne, Aftershocks by Owusu, Mouthpieces by McBride, and Bolt from the Blue by Cooper.
By Why the government must reverse the drastic cuts in aid to Yemen
The disastrous move is as close to snatching food from the mouths of babes as politics ever gets.
By Stuart Maconie’s Diary: Grief in lockdown, the rise of canal-side courting and why I’m still quizzing
With no pubs or restaurants, it’s as if we’ve returned to Thomas Hardy’s Wessex, where awkward young farmhands called on…
By Letter of the week: Johnson the game-player
A selection of the best letters received from our readers this week. Email [email protected] to have your thoughts voiced…
By The NS Poem: In praise of skinny lads
A new poem by Tamsin Hopkins.
By Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer are asking the same old question: Labour spending or Tory austerity?
The Chancellor’s hope is that the country may now have an appetite to reduce debt, leaving Labour in a potentially disastrous…
By Leader: Lost Labour
Keir Starmer’s party seems to have lost confidence in what it is, what it wants and for whom it…
By “Help for my junior doctors isn’t there”: Dr Hilali Noordeen on burnout in the NHS
After 36 years of working in the NHS, the surgeon warns that his colleagues on Covid-19 wards need more support.
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