Britain at the end of history
What Margaret Thatcher’s failures over German reunification can teach Brexit Britain 30 years on.
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Long Covid
What I’ve learned on the front line against Long Covid
At this stage, the duration of the condition is as uncertain as what underlies it.
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The rise of the Proud Boys in the US
Who are the self-styled gang of Western chauvinists Trump asked to “stand back and stand by”?
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The scars of Long Covid
What scientists are discovering about the mysterious long-term effects of coronavirus.
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How Lawrence Osborne subverts the crime genre
In The Glass Kingdom, Osborne upends our most basic assumptions about the human world.
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The longform patriarchs, and their accomplices
Beyond the white male canon: Bernardine Evaristo’s New Statesman/Goldsmiths Prize Lecture offers a manifesto for the creation of a new,…
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The brilliance and brutality of Lucian Freud
Freud could be selfish, amoral and cruel. But he lived and painted with feverish intensity.
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The scandal that changed cricket
Nick Greenslade’s The Thin White Line offers the inside story of the 2010 Pakistani cricket betting scam.
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NS Recommends: New books from Megan Hunter, Bradley Garrett, Safiya Sinclair and James Ball
Hunter’s The Harpy, Garrett’s Bunker, Sinclair’s Cannibal, and Ball’s The System.
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The myths and masterpieces of Artemisia Gentileschi
Questions of gender and sexual trauma have long confused Artemisia Gentileschi’s status as a major painter – something a new…
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Melissa Harrison’s podcast The Stubborn Light of Things brings nature to you
In each episode, Harrison walks through the nearby countryside – she might explore an arable farm, a stately home or…
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Paul Mazursky’s 1978 romcom An Unmarried Woman captures the thrill of reinvention
The joy is in watching the vulnerable Erica Benton (Jill Clayburgh) build herself back up.
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The cheap, soapy tricks of BBC One’s Life
Mike Bartlett’s new series is both mystifyingly bad and bewilderingly addictive.
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Donald Trump’s hubris in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic is pure Americana
Pretending things are fine when they are not is the American way. It’s time the president, and the rest of…
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Why sport’s new status as a purely digital product is not sustainable
Elite sport has streamlined itself to become flat-pack entertainment – but there isn’t a competition in the world that…
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Covid-19 reminds us progress is not inevitable and disease is universal
The pandemic has exposed our brittle belief in progress and undermined the assumption that science can save us from the rise-and-fall cycle of civilisation.
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Why Johnson’s Tories are fools to believe they have a new way of achieving social justice
Britain’s regional inequality is tenacious, chronic and complex. If only solving it were as simple as reversing neglect.
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John Kampfner’s Diary: The GDR’s legacy, Trump’s threat to Germany, and getting over Brexit
With Trump in the White House and Britain cutting itself off from the mainstream, will Germany put itself forward as…
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Anneliese Dodds’ biggest enemy isn’t Rishi Sunak. It’s Covid-19
The shadow chancellor is blamed for having failed to ruffle Rishi Sunak – but it’s too soon to write…
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Why the rise and decline of the AfD party in Germany is a parable for our times
The international media has often given the nationalist-nativist AfD too much credit and almost never too little.
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Mad behaviour: the psychologist Joseph Henrich on what makes us weird
The Harvard professor on how most claims about human nature are based on people from “Western, educated, industrialised, rich, democratic societies”.
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First Thoughts: All the president’s medics, and the reality of Patel’s dystopia
Donald Trump’s medical army is a typically American projection of power.
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Commons Confidential: The art of revenge
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Why states must adapt for this new age of disorder
The pandemic has illustrated the need for public authority, but at the local and international levels as much as…
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What Britain can learn from its disappearing orchards
Our farming industry has done untold damage to habitats and humans nationwide – but it’s not too late to…
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I may moan about moving house, but it seems I don’t know what stress really means
With the keys to my new abode finally in my pocket I breathe a sigh of relief, until I…
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Time seems to move at a different pace in rural Northern Ireland – and even the cats seem to sense it
When I told my friends that I was visiting my in-laws for a month they winced, but it was…
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This England: Polly-mouth
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain…
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Adam Buxton Q&A: “Does my ear need syringing, or is it something more serious?“
The comedian talks David Bowie, John Stuart Mill and 1970s New York.
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Letter of the week: Defining a nation
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: After the end of history
The age of liberal triumphalism has ended, but it should not be replaced by one of progressive defeatism.
By The brilliance and brutality of Lucian Freud
Freud could be selfish, amoral and cruel. But he lived and painted with feverish intensity.
By The scandal that changed cricket
Nick Greenslade’s The Thin White Line offers the inside story of the 2010 Pakistani cricket betting scam.
By First Thoughts: All the president’s medics, and the reality of Patel’s dystopia
Donald Trump’s medical army is a typically American projection of power.
By Mad behaviour: the psychologist Joseph Henrich on what makes us weird
The Harvard professor on how most claims about human nature are based on people from “Western, educated, industrialised, rich, democratic societies”.
By NS Recommends: New books from Megan Hunter, Bradley Garrett, Safiya Sinclair and James Ball
Hunter’s The Harpy, Garrett’s Bunker, Sinclair’s Cannibal, and Ball’s The System.
By Commons Confidential: The art of revenge
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
By Why states must adapt for this new age of disorder
The pandemic has illustrated the need for public authority, but at the local and international levels as much as…
By Why sport’s new status as a purely digital product is not sustainable
Elite sport has streamlined itself to become flat-pack entertainment – but there isn’t a competition in the world that…
By Covid-19 reminds us progress is not inevitable and disease is universal
The pandemic has exposed our brittle belief in progress and undermined the assumption that science can save us from the rise-and-fall cycle of civilisation.
By Paul Mazursky’s 1978 romcom An Unmarried Woman captures the thrill of reinvention
The joy is in watching the vulnerable Erica Benton (Jill Clayburgh) build herself back up.
By Why Johnson’s Tories are fools to believe they have a new way of achieving social justice
Britain’s regional inequality is tenacious, chronic and complex. If only solving it were as simple as reversing neglect.
By The cheap, soapy tricks of BBC One’s Life
Mike Bartlett’s new series is both mystifyingly bad and bewilderingly addictive.
By Melissa Harrison’s podcast The Stubborn Light of Things brings nature to you
In each episode, Harrison walks through the nearby countryside – she might explore an arable farm, a stately home or…
By What Britain can learn from its disappearing orchards
Our farming industry has done untold damage to habitats and humans nationwide – but it’s not too late to…
By Donald Trump’s hubris in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic is pure Americana
Pretending things are fine when they are not is the American way. It’s time the president, and the rest of…
By I may moan about moving house, but it seems I don’t know what stress really means
With the keys to my new abode finally in my pocket I breathe a sigh of relief, until I…
By John Kampfner’s Diary: The GDR’s legacy, Trump’s threat to Germany, and getting over Brexit
With Trump in the White House and Britain cutting itself off from the mainstream, will Germany put itself forward as…
By Time seems to move at a different pace in rural Northern Ireland – and even the cats seem to sense it
When I told my friends that I was visiting my in-laws for a month they winced, but it was…
By Why the rise and decline of the AfD party in Germany is a parable for our times
The international media has often given the nationalist-nativist AfD too much credit and almost never too little.
By This England: Polly-mouth
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain…
By Anneliese Dodds’ biggest enemy isn’t Rishi Sunak. It’s Covid-19
The shadow chancellor is blamed for having failed to ruffle Rishi Sunak – but it’s too soon to write…
ByEmail [email protected] if you would like to be the New Statesman’s Subscriber of the Week.
By Letter of the week: Defining a nation
A selection of the best letters received from our readers this week. Email [email protected] to have your thoughts voiced…
By Adam Buxton Q&A: “Does my ear need syringing, or is it something more serious?“
The comedian talks David Bowie, John Stuart Mill and 1970s New York.
By Leader: After the end of history
The age of liberal triumphalism has ended, but it should not be replaced by one of progressive defeatism.
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