A continent drifts
Europe’s politics have stalled. In an age of crisis, the EU needs a new generation of far-sighted leaders.
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Letter of the week: The wrong kind of growth
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Labour minister gets an apology over “no money” note – 13 years late
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Why Elon Musk killed the Twitter bird
The tech billionaire wants “X” to become the centre of the internet.
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America’s real-life crime thriller
Also this week: why journalists should back Hollywood’s strikes.
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Dale Vince: “The unions don’t get it”
The green energy entrepreneur on why he funds Just Stop Oil.
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Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer are both trapped
The Prime Minister is hemmed in by the Conservative Party, and the Labour leader is a prisoner of public…
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What happens if the Russian state collapses?
The West yearns for Vladimir Putin to fall – yet this could trigger mayhem in Russia, and instability throughout…
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Developers are selling even the sky above our heads
Also this week: why Ulez decided the Uxbridge election, and the death of “silly season”.
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Keir Starmer, take note: voters want conviction, not austerity redux
On election day, will we think that he fought with passion or shrugged and gave up?
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With its impossible rents, London is trying to spit me out
In June I replied to 22 adverts on SpareRoom and made it through to five viewings. The competition is…
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How not to drown
Growing up as a fish out of water.
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Watching Carlos Alcaraz at Wimbledon, I witnessed something startlingly new
From ball one the 20-year-old was in ebullient battle mode – tearing up the grass and flipping defiant defence…
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Tony Blair: “If I was back in front-line politics…”
Labour’s former prime minister on the AI revolution, the curse of Brexit and what Keir Starmer must do to…
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Dog days and shadows of loss
Summer is precious and fleeting. But so, I reflect as I watch the dog I’ve loved for 15 years,…
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The end of globalisation
With war in Ukraine and China’s Belt and Road project faltering, the era of open commerce is over. Who…
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Why biological sex matters
Some argue that lived experience and personal choice trump biology – but they are wrong.
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The gender binary is false
We should question a mindset that viciously excludes whole groups of people.
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The escape artist
The climate crisis is terrifying. But kayaking off the coast of Britain, I still find joy.
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George Orwell in an age of moralists
Should we stop measuring the great English writer by today’s standards?
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In at the deep end
The long struggle to save the art deco lido at Grange-over-Sands.
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In defence of “what if?”
Why counterfactual history is an essential tool for understanding the present.
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Simone de Beauvoir and the art of loss
Sixty years ago, the French writer’s unflinching memoir of her mother’s death tested the limits of her existentialism.
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Mysteries of the owl and octopus
A new school of natural history seeks to understand the deep intelligence of the Earth’s most enigmatic creatures.
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The age of digital outrage
The internet was once seen as a tool to promote empathy – so how did it come to amplify…
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Virginia Woolf’s living book
The writer’s diaries reveal a mind striving to capture the elusive moment.
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The best children’s books for summer 2023
Essential holiday reading, from vivid picture books to gripping wartime adventures.
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The 15 best books for summer 2023
The New Statesman’s selection of essential recent releases.
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Summer of Light: a tale of art and betrayal in 1920s Venice
A new short story by the prize-winning novelist Jonathan Coe.
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The NS Poem: Country Icon (a riddle)
A new poem by AE Stallings.
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The Virgin Suicides is a defining text of adolescent pain
Both Jeffrey Eugenides’ novel and Sofia Coppola’s film have endured through the decades, resonating with new generations of teenagers.
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The Picasso problem
Fifty years after the artist’s death, the cult of genius that hid his flaws offers less protection.
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Greta Gerwig’s Barbie: the art of selling out
The director has achieved her ambition of becoming a blockbuster director – but at what cost?
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The Power of Parker captures the particular quirks of Nineties northern England
Sian Gibson and Paul Coleman’s new series is comic perfection – but perhaps not everyone will find it funny.
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A baffling but brilliant ride through Birmingham’s surrealist scene
Stewart Lee’s Radio 4 documentary on the city’s artistic past is jarring, hard to follow and utterly engaging.
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A brief history of “woke drinks”
In declaring a negroni the signature drink of the woke, GB News has forgotten about craft beers and natural…
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Two nights in Manchester, and my summer is complete
A sublime evening of torch songs, and managing not to ruin Maxine Peake’s one-woman show – that’s my idea…
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An eight-hour lunch puts the passing of time in perspective
Catching up with the cartoonist Martin Rowson provided valuable insights into friendship, satire and immortality.
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This England: Collars and cuffs
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain…
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Julia Donaldson Q&A: “I have wonderful memories of busking in Siena”
The author of The Gruffalo on Schubert, her love of botany, and the importance of never being caught short.
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