Leader: The Labour dilemma
If Keir Starmer is to lead a transformative government of the kind the UK needs, he must be more…
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The state we’re in
Letter of the week: from left to right
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More reality TV bookings beckon for Matt Hancock
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Morgan McSweeney – Labour’s power broker
The Irishman has become the most influential operator in Keir Starmer’s team. But what does he really want?
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Bruce Daisley’s Diary: Twitter’s death spiral, the Qatar trap, and why watching Matt Hancock in the jungle is no fun
ELon Musk has lost $100bn in 2022, and would shed an additional $44bn with the demise of Twitter.
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Ha-Joon Chang: “Talk of a ‘fiscal black hole’ is an insult to the concept”
The South Korean economist on the case against austerity and his new book Edible Economics.
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The chaos at Elon Musk’s Twitter is a parable of US power in the age of Big Tech
Silicon Valley’s plight is fundamental to one of the biggest geopolitical questions of the 21st century: can the US…
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The crash of Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX may yet strengthen the crypto industry
The 30-year-old’s crypto exchange has filed for bankruptcy, but the potential for decentralised finance remains great.
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Escaping the austerity trap
Inflation is at a 40-year high and the UK economy has stalled – now is Labour’s moment to lead…
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The coming Republican civil war
The US midterms were a setback for Donald Trump. Will his 2024 White House bid survive a brutal round…
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Letter from Kherson: The war of the villages
Ukrainian troops are becoming ever more confident as Russia endures another humiliating defeat
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The dangerous conceits of the green revolution
The climate emergency requires serious politics – not bourgeois protests that block traffic and vandalise works of art.
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Books of the year 2022
New Statesman writers and guests choose their favourite reading of the year.
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Why Diego Garcia won the 2022 Goldsmiths Prize for fiction
Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams’s collaboration is a restlessly inventive novel about colonial injustice and human connection.
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Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams: “Writers are subject to a sustained assault from the political class”
The 2022 Goldsmiths Prize-winning duo on Chagos, capitalism and collaborating on their mould-breaking novel Diego Garcia.
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Why the father-daughter drama Aftersun deserves all the awards
This story of an 11-year-old (Frankie Corio) and her dad (Paul Mescal) is a moving, memorable and astonishingly accomplished…
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Why I love SAS Rogue Heroes, a carnival of macho nonsense
Steven Knight’s new series with Dominic West strikes a tone midway between war comics and a Duran Duran video…
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Emily Ratajkowski’s new podcast is a painful listen
High Low with EmRata is both grandiose and trivial, self-absorbed and unrevealing.
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The Proclaimers are still Britain’s best male rock singers
At a recent gig in Leicester, the duo were just as much a juggernaut as they have always been.
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In partner dancing, the man leads: I should be aggrieved, but instead I feel liberated
“Relax, relax,” my partner says, and once I stop thinking about what foot I’m putting where, my body falls…
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Backing Wales for the World Cup, same old Ingerland, and a word for my sponsors
It is somehow reassuring that Wales are obviously not going to win the tournament.
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This England: One-track mind
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain…
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John Irving Q&A: “Kurt Vonnegut told me: ‘God damn it, you’ve got to be kind’”
The author of The Cider House Rules on his biggest influences: Dickens, Melville, the Brontës, and a stuffed armadillo.
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