At Oxfordshire’s waste mountain, a national monument to greed
Ed Davey had to make do with expressing vigorous concern from a distance
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The Last Stand
Starmer needs to lead
If we are lost at sea, it will not be long before a mutiny is led by the crew
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Jeremy Corbyn: my apology to Your Party members
Labour’s former leader has turned his back on his old party – and is ready to lead a new…
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Under siege in Ukraine, I mourn our little dog
The death of our Chihuahua, Quicky, brings home the importance of friendship
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Is Kevin Hollinrake now home alone?
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster
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Letter of the week: A crisis of statecraft
Write to [email protected] to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine
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China and Japan are on the verge of a breakdown
The war of words over Taiwan is escalating
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JD Vance has two obstacles to the White House
One of them is Donald Trump
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In car-boot Britain, “petty crime” has turned professional
Robert Jenrick is wrong – the problem is organised crime
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Blue Labour is fighting for its future
Labour’s slow fracture is leaving space for organised insurgent factions
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The Budget of last resort
Inside Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves’ fight for survival
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How the left misread Gramsci
We are living in the Italian Marxist thinker’s interregnum
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Twilight in Kyiv
Donald Trump’s ultimatum to Volodymyr Zelensky threatens to scatter the Western alliance and hand Ukraine to Vladimir Putin
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In the autumn of Salman Rushdie
The author’s late style in The Eleventh Hour, his new collection of fiction, reveals a venerable writer displaced by…
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England’s literary Catholic converts
Oscar Wilde, Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene thought it was the “real” faith even when they disliked it
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Inside the mind of Luigi Mangione
A biography of the man on trial for anti-corporate murder seeks to disrupt the hero narrative that has grown…
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Radiohead restored
The band’s first tour in seven years drifts seamlessly through their discography, filling the arena with a sense of…
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William Nicholson and the pleasure in the paint
The artist’s refusal to swim with the currents of his times cost him the reputation he deserves
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Pillion is the film Fifty Shades failed to be
Harry Lighton’s debut feature tests the boundaries of queer cinema without a hint of judgement
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The triumph of The Death of Bunny Munro
The bruising TV adaptation of Nick Cave’s 2009 novel is more palatable than the book – but still not…
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BBC Radio 4’s Small Boat reveals our lack of empathy
Inspired by real transcripts, the programme focuses on the French navy radio operator who failed to send help to…
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What we can learn from Beaujolais nouveau
It’s not just the cold, dismal months of winter that can be lit up by this Hello Kitty wine
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Would anyone work if they didn’t have to?
We need to get creative with how to encourage people to work
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I receive a message from beyond the grave. It comes dressed in Nordic socks
In memory of Ian Marchant, a brilliant writer and creative smuggler
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It’s 3am and I can’t stop thinking of Dad
Is my grief a self-indulgence?
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This England: Lend an ear
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain…
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Alasdair MacIntyre’s absent centre
August 1971: Terry Eagleton reviews Alasdair MacIntyre
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