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How the popular artist flattered his country with an image of itself as an American Aracadia.
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The Great Reckoning
The magic of Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret Garden has enchanted readers for more than a century. But few pay attention to the remarkabe life…
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The new Spitting Image is all crudeness – not satire
The new series just shouts “bum” a lot, and hopes its audience is desperate enough to titter.
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The human stories of Philippa Perry’s Families in Crisis
The names have been changed, but over each half-hour podcast episode individual personalities emerge with striking clarity.
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Borat Subsequent Moviefilm brings outrage back to comedy
Fourteen years after the first film, but mere months in the making, Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat returns in this biting…
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An elegy for the ash tree
Fifty years after the English elm succumbed to Dutch elm disease, another of our cherished natives is disappearing, due to…
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A fractured United States
Donald Trump’s brazen violations of democratic norms are not new, but a continuation of a political culture built on…
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America and the politics of pain
Gravely ill in hospital with sepsis, our writer had a revelation on how Donald Trump transformed the US’s inequalities…
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How the New Romantics transformed British culture
As Margaret Thatcher’s political revolution unfolded, a group of style-obsessed misfits brightened troubled times.
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American unreality
In breaking the link between politics and objective truth, the United States seeks to fashion a new world –…
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The rise and resolve of Arsène Wenger
How football’s auteur transformed the English game.
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Don DeLillo’s echo chamber
How the American novelist ceased to find meaning in the world’s white noise.
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NS Recommends: New books from Andrew O’Hagan, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Madeleine Bunting and Giles Tremlett
O’Hagan’s Mayflies, Bunting’s Labours of Love, wa Thiong’o’s The Perfect Nine and Giles Tremlett’s The International Brigades.
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The NS Poem: Pressed
A new poem by Blake Morrison.
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Can you be too old to be president?
How gerontocracy rules in the age of decline.
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Caleb Femi: “Poetry is the art of the people”
The poet and former Young People’s Laureate for London discusses police racism, growing up on the North Peckham estate, and…
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First Thoughts: Why I fear Biden won’t win, my friend Jeffrey Archer, and the Daily Mail after Dacre
Despite leading in the polls by double digits, Biden still may not get a landslide. Then an even dirtier…
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Commons Confidential: Boris Johnson’s own goal
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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James Rebanks’ Diary: The future of English farming, Tosh the sheepdog puppy, and lockdown parenting
Our postwar society was built on bullying 1 per cent of the population into producing the cheapest food in history.
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Without reviews – even the scathing ones – we’d be left with a paltry, loveless cultural landscape
To apply the concept of “if you haven’t got anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all” to…
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How BBC drama Roadkill exposes David Hare’s shrunken view of politics
Hare’s writing is witty but lazy – his Conservatives are all monsters, who are venal and venial at every turn.
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Why I’m starting to doubt my long-held belief that Trump will win the US election
Two unexpected developments have forced me (tentatively) to reconsider my initial prediction about how 3 November will end.
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The best reason to root for Joe Biden and celebrate if he wins? Climate change
Without the participation of the federal US government, achieving the Paris agreement’s goal is near inconceivable.
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The greatest danger to Rishi Sunak comes not from his enemies but from his allies
This month, for the first time in his career, the Chancellor has had to experience, if not mortality, then at…
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Letter of the Week: Speaking from experience
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: Why Trump and his clan must go
If US democracy is to survive, the removal of Trump and his enablers from office is not just desirable…
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Mary McAleese Q&A: “No one comes close to John Hume’s unerring leadership“
The former president of Ireland discusses the legacy of John Hume, Catholic canon law and New Tricks.
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This England: Fast and loose
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain…
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I thought my football treasures would ease me into old age. But now I am tired of the clutter
It’s time for my collection to go to the auction house, and I can finally experience the thrill of the…
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A hard winter is coming – but in the garden, autumn’s pleasures are still there for the taking
Feeling a bit unproductive, I put on my boots and head outside to push broad beans into the earth.
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Down at the shoreline at night, the navigation lights on the horizon start speaking to me
During my evening jaunts, I revel in the crashing waves at my feet and the inscrutable Morse code of…
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I despaired when I heard that the venerable Bath Oliver biscuit had ceased production
And I know I do not grieve alone for the loss of this salty yin to the Rich Tea’s yang.
By The new Spitting Image is all crudeness – not satire
The new series just shouts “bum” a lot, and hopes its audience is desperate enough to titter.
By The human stories of Philippa Perry’s Families in Crisis
The names have been changed, but over each half-hour podcast episode individual personalities emerge with striking clarity.
By NS Recommends: New books from Andrew O’Hagan, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Madeleine Bunting and Giles Tremlett
O’Hagan’s Mayflies, Bunting’s Labours of Love, wa Thiong’o’s The Perfect Nine and Giles Tremlett’s The International Brigades.
By Don DeLillo’s echo chamber
How the American novelist ceased to find meaning in the world’s white noise.
By I despaired when I heard that the venerable Bath Oliver biscuit had ceased production
And I know I do not grieve alone for the loss of this salty yin to the Rich Tea’s yang.
By Down at the shoreline at night, the navigation lights on the horizon start speaking to me
During my evening jaunts, I revel in the crashing waves at my feet and the inscrutable Morse code of…
By A hard winter is coming – but in the garden, autumn’s pleasures are still there for the taking
Feeling a bit unproductive, I put on my boots and head outside to push broad beans into the earth.
By The rise and resolve of Arsène Wenger
How football’s auteur transformed the English game.
By This England: Fast and loose
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain…
By First Thoughts: Why I fear Biden won’t win, my friend Jeffrey Archer, and the Daily Mail after Dacre
Despite leading in the polls by double digits, Biden still may not get a landslide. Then an even dirtier…
By I thought my football treasures would ease me into old age. But now I am tired of the clutter
It’s time for my collection to go to the auction house, and I can finally experience the thrill of the…
By Caleb Femi: “Poetry is the art of the people”
The poet and former Young People’s Laureate for London discusses police racism, growing up on the North Peckham estate, and…
ByEmail [email protected] if you would like to be the New Statesman‘s Subscriber of the Week.
By Commons Confidential: Boris Johnson’s own goal
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
By Can you be too old to be president?
How gerontocracy rules in the age of decline.
By Without reviews – even the scathing ones – we’d be left with a paltry, loveless cultural landscape
To apply the concept of “if you haven’t got anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all” to…
By Why I’m starting to doubt my long-held belief that Trump will win the US election
Two unexpected developments have forced me (tentatively) to reconsider my initial prediction about how 3 November will end.
By How BBC drama Roadkill exposes David Hare’s shrunken view of politics
Hare’s writing is witty but lazy – his Conservatives are all monsters, who are venal and venial at every turn.
By James Rebanks’ Diary: The future of English farming, Tosh the sheepdog puppy, and lockdown parenting
Our postwar society was built on bullying 1 per cent of the population into producing the cheapest food in history.
By The NS Poem: Pressed
A new poem by Blake Morrison.
By The best reason to root for Joe Biden and celebrate if he wins? Climate change
Without the participation of the federal US government, achieving the Paris agreement’s goal is near inconceivable.
By Mary McAleese Q&A: “No one comes close to John Hume’s unerring leadership“
The former president of Ireland discusses the legacy of John Hume, Catholic canon law and New Tricks.
By The greatest danger to Rishi Sunak comes not from his enemies but from his allies
This month, for the first time in his career, the Chancellor has had to experience, if not mortality, then at…
By Letter of the Week: Speaking from experience
A selection of the best letters received from our readers this week. Email [email protected] to have your thoughts voiced…
By Leader: Why Trump and his clan must go
If US democracy is to survive, the removal of Trump and his enablers from office is not just desirable…
By Borat Subsequent Moviefilm brings outrage back to comedy
Fourteen years after the first film, but mere months in the making, Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat returns in this biting…
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