Britain’s young communists are ready for revolution
Among the radicals at Revolution Festival
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In this week’s issue
Meet the bond vigilantes
The legacy Rachel Cooke leaves behind
“Make mischief. Enjoy every day. Life is precious.”
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David Szalay: “I think of myself as a European novelist”
The Booker Prize winner on masculinity, sex and what Keir Starmer should read
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Bruegel and cake in the splendour of Vienna
I don’t know about the mind, but travel certainly broadens the arse
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Letter of the week: Remembering Rachel Cooke
Write to [email protected] to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine
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Is Wes Streeting changing constituency?
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster
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Morgan McSweeney is pinning all his hopes on Shabana Mahmood
Her immigration policy is an internal victory for McSweeney and his kind of politics
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Who leads Maga now?
The Epstein files are splitting JD Vance from Donald Trump
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Keir Starmer could yet save himself
If only his Chancellor would explain taxes
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The Kirstie Allsopp theory of housing
It’s completely warping our view of home ownership
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Meet the bond market vigilantes
Governments are now at the mercy of unseen investors
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Is this the end of Labour?
Our political upheavals may prove lethal – and not just for Keir Starmer’s leadership
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The feminisation mystique: who ruined the West?
If we must blame something, blame capitalism
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John Updike’s intimate voice
The novelist’s collected correspondence reveals a narrative of striving, sex and success
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Islam is part of European history
Historians’ dismissal of the continent’s Muslim legacy is helping to feed contemporary divisions
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Jeanette Winterson’s thousand and one yawns
The author’s latest novel blandly reimagines the Arabian Nights tales
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Iris Murdoch’s poems were better left in the attic
A cache of newly unearthed works is not the “thrilling literary discovery” their publisher claims
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Tupac Shakur: lion or loser?
The mythologised rapper was a natural shapeshifter – who no one ever truly got to know
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NS Poem: Fauna
A new poem by Colin Bramwell
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The masochistic violence of Sisu: Road to Revenge
Jalmari Helander’s new film opens a new frontier
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Pluribus’s very polite zombies
Vince Gilligan’s new series asks whether the price of peace is worth the subordination of the individual
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Ambika Mod is luminous and feral in Porn Play
Sophia Chetin-Leuner’s new production is sure to make her a star
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Stop perving over chefs!
This is not a Benihana
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Our food portions are bigger than ever
Standard dinner plates are two to three inches larger than 50 years ago
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There’s nothing quite like lying down and thinking about death
Sometimes you can’t ignore the signs
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Why I took a week off from my week off
After a few days, I realised there’s a reason we work
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This England: Flamingone
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain…
By Re-reading the utterly original Rachel Cooke
The writer, who was the New Statesman’s TV reviewer for nearly two decades, has died aged 56
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