The humbling of the SNP
After nearly two decades, the age of nationalist hegemony may be over.
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The Anniversary Issue
Letter of the week: A multipolar world
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The Labour smear machine has unintentionally revealed the split between Yvette Cooper and Steve Reed
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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We’re still living in Margaret Thatcher’s world
Ten years on from her death, the former prime minister’s free-market settlement continues to define Britain.
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The transporting effects of plane reading, how not to adapt Dickens, and why I care only for novels
I rarely see anything on television or in the cinema as adventurous as what can be found in a…
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Richard Ingrams: “Journalism is a drug: you can’t give it up”
The veteran editor on satire, libel and Private Eye.
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In 2013, few could have predicted the decade of political convulsions to come
In the ten years since our centenary edition the world has darkened considerably – and war has returned to…
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A decade on from the New Statesman’s 100th anniversary, I’m flushed with reminiscence
During the austerity decade, life at the magazine was coloured by gifted colleagues and celebrity guest edits.
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Joe Biden said “America is back”. So why are its foreign allies going their own way?
Former friends to the US are increasingly testing the forms and bounds of the shifting geopolitical geometry.
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How Labour lost the moral high ground
Attack ads are fundamental to politics. But the smear campaign against Rishi Sunak is a strategic and moral error.
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“It was an absolute riot”: nine New Statesman political editors reunite
As the magazine turns 110, its lobby team reflect on four tumultuous decades of the Westminster beat.
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Mehdi Hasan on 110 years of the New Statesman: “David Cameron didn’t like me”
The MSNBC host recalls his time as the magazine’s senior editor (politics), 2009-2012.
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Julian Barnes on 110 years of the New Statesman: “I did Martin Amis’s dirty work”
The novelist recalls his time as the magazine’s deputy literary editor and TV critic, 1976-1981.
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Andrew Marr and Jackie Ashley on 110 years of the New Statesman: “There wasn’t too much rivalry”
The married couple recall their respective times as the magazine’s political editor.
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Jemima Khan on 110 years of the New Statesman: “I felt bad about my Nick Clegg interview”
The screenwriter recalls her time as the magazine’s associate editor, 2011-2015.
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Ian Hargreaves on 110 years of the New Statesman: “Mandelson was a charmer and a bully”
The journalist and academic recalls his time as the magazine’s editor, 1996-1998.
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Ralph Steadman on 110 years of the New Statesman: “I’d enjoy drawing Trump’s demise”
The illustrator on working with the magazine since 1976.
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Rowan Williams on 110 years of the New Statesman: “I’m unrepentant about my guest-edit”
The former Archbishop of Canterbury on his time as a commissioning editor and critic, 2011-present.
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Cristina Odone on 110 years of the New Statesman: “We struck nerves”
The journalist recalls her time as the magazine’s deputy editor, 1998-2004.
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John Gray on 110 years of the New Statesman: “I regret I didn’t criticise Tony Blair more”
The philosopher on his time writing for the magazine as an essayist and critic, 1996-present.
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André Carrilho on 110 years of the New Statesman: “Putin has grown puffier”
The illustrator on working with the magazine since 2014.
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Claire Tomalin on 110 years of the New Statesman: “I felt at home”
The biographer recalls her time as the magazine’s literary editor, 1974-1977.
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The view from Switzerland, where big business rules
The streets are clean, the trains excellent, the politics consensual. But as the Credit Suisse bailout showed, Switzerland’s ruling…
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Derek Parfit: the perfectionist at All Souls
Brilliant and eccentric, the Oxford philosopher spent his career grappling with fundamental moral questions.
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Milan Kundera’s identity crisis
In renouncing his homeland and despairing of European culture, the Czech novelist walks in the footsteps of Kafka.
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From Amy Key to Tom Clark: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Eve by Claire Horn and A Stranger in Your Own City by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad.
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Gary Younge: how racism shaped my critical eye
Growing up working-class and black taught me to doubt the official narrative. If I was always lied about, where…
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Medea at Soho Place: a stunning production that rains down on the patriarchy
Sophie Okonedo’s formidable Medea will go down as a legend in theatre history.
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Ali Smith on the groundbreaking art of Lucie Rie
How the Austrian-born ceramicist changed everything possible in pottery.
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The Night of the 12th: a grim look at an unsolved murder
The director Dominik Moll is known for his tightly-plotted French thrillers. Now, he takes on an unsolved true crime.
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The limits of “female experience” TV
From Dreamland to The Power, shows are still signposting the astonishing revelation that women are complex people, too.
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The true meaning of James Bond
The ultimate GQ snob, 007 more than anything represents consumer goods becoming available to people outside of aristocracy.
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The pop starlet reinvention wheel
From Madonna to Taylor Swift, the music industry demands that its female artists stay new, young and relevant forever.
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Whether sodden bomb or swerving orb, the football has always been a dangerous item
This is a world where “concussion sports law” is already a discipline and a trade.
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Despite unhappy past experiences, I have decided to give facial hair one more go
And like every stupid thing I do it’s because of a woman.
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This England: Let’s park that
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain…
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Simon Armitage’s Q&A: “One of my faults is that I look for faults in others”
The poet on losing his father, his experience on “celebrity” Mastermind and his love of sports.
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