The Tory war without end
The Brexit negotiations are unravelling and Conservative MPs are more convinced than ever the Prime Minister is finished – but they can’t…
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The Tory Brexit crisis
The Wife is the Glenn Close show through and through, and it’s a treat
Close finds so many variations on the tight smile of the long-suffering spouse.
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As my anxiety-induced boils resurface, I wonder if so much travelling is good for one man
Scotland to London; London to Brighton; Brighton to Salisbury; Salisbury to London; and tomorrow, assuming the trains are running,…
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Inside the small and tedious mind of Charles Manson
Most “astonishing” documentaries rarely are that. But Manson: The Lost Tapes really is disquieting.
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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead: Olga Tokarczuk’s grimly comic tale of death and vengeance
Translated with virtuosic precision by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, Tokarczuk’s fiction seethes with the cleansing power of rage
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Palaces for the people: how shared spaces improve lives
The centuries-old idea of sharing space is today a furious call to action.
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The body takes the stage in Christine and the Queens new record, Chris
Having chopped off that feminine last syllable and most of her hair, “Chris” places the body at the centre…
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Drinking Amontillado sherry in Andalusia, my mind turns to Queen Isabella of Castile
Would a few sips have made her a more tolerant ruler?
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Peter Hitchens’s Eurosceptic take on the Second World War is riddled with errors and bizarre theories
The Mail on Sunday columnist, relying on a handful of eccentric studies, argues that September 1939 was the wrong…
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Leaving the familiar city behind, I descend on to the Thames foreshore, a very different place
There is sand and pebbles and shells, but also the detritus of hundreds of years, stuff that has been…
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Lisa Appignanesi’s brave memoir explores what happens when grief gives way to anger
“I should have felt sorrow and pity,” Appignanesi writes. Instead, she felt rage.
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They used to be mocked and shunned – but now goalies are going for serious cash
They sat on their own at the back of the bus, considered either stupid or mad.
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Ian Rankin Q&A: “Would John Smith have shaped the UK differently? We’ll never know“
The crime novelist on Joe 90, Muriel Spark and the late Labour leader.
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Lily Allen’s memoir is uniquely candid about the dark side of fame
Allen details countless horrors, including a stalker entering her bedroom at night, waking up as a record industry executive…
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Fat activists want to reclaim their bodies but it is not “fatphobia” to recognise the risks of obesity
How ridiculous, how self-deluding to suggest that any problem with fat is irrational and not because being fat is…
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Sarah Moss’s sixth novel Ghost Wall is a thriller with a nuanced understanding of history
Moss’s sensual writing recalls the late Helen Dunmore.
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The agony and the destiny: Friedrich Nietzsche’s descent into madness
Nietzsche was overlooked for most of his career. By the time his genius was discovered, his health had rapidly…
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Divided we stand: identity politics and the threat to democracy
As the far right rises across Europe, how can liberal democracies confront populist nationalism? New books by Francis Fukuyama and…
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Bringing up Winnie: Winston Churchill’s revealing letters to his mother
It was a relationship that, as Churchill once remarked, was more like brother and sister than mother and son.
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Geoff Dyer’s book about the war film Where Eagles Dare is about much more than just one movie
Dyer has always been a writer for whom talking about something properly and honestly means talking about a lot…
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Moon Jae-in’s diplomatic dance towards peace with North Korea
South Korea’s president has to negotiate the competing demands of Trump, Kim Jong-un and China.
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The Tories’ great moving right show
Still haunted by the spectre of Margaret Thatcher, the Conservative Party has become increasingly reckless as it is pushed towards…
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How Tony Blair is still revered as the saviour of the Kosovan Albanians
Many Kosovan children, now aged 18, were named “Tonibler” by grateful parents in honour of our former PM.
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Two decades after Anita Hill, the promise of #MeToo is that women can stop paying a “creep tax“
Parallels between Hill’s case and that of Christine Blasey Ford, who has accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexual harrrassment, are…
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Steve Perry of Journey: “Things happened to me as a child. There was nowhere to talk it out, so I sang it out instead”
Journey wrote “Don’t Stop Believin’”, the most downloaded song from the 20th century. When their lead singer quit, the band spent…
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Springwatch host Chris Packham’s radical quest to end “the war on wildlife”
An Attenborough for the Anthropocene age.
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Macron’s black September: how the French president fell to Earth
To the outside world, Macron still appears something of a success. But in France, his approval rating has dropped…
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Commons Confidential: Bruisers and bodyguards at Labour conference
The pick of the best gossip from the 2018 Labour party conference in Liverpool.
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Letter of the week: McDonnell’s vision
A selection of the best letters received from our readers this week. Email [email protected] to have your thoughts voiced…
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The paradox of Corbyn is that he has succeeded as leader by ignoring his belief in grass-roots rule
The successful policy announcements of 2017 did not emanate from the collective deliberations of party members, but from on high.
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Intrigue: The Ratline: a new ten-part podcast about a Nazi hunt.
This is a “real-life mystery” that begins in a 14th century Austrian castle.
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Why John McDonnell’s plan for a £500 dividend to workers will prove to be a vote-loser
The public will resent the idea of neighbours who work for big companies getting the extra cash.
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Turning over a new leaf: the New Statesman’s autumn books special
From an epic life of Nietzsche to Lily Allen’s brutally honest memoir, the big new releases reviewed.
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Leader: The question for Theresa May is now whether Brexit is deliverable at all
Her Chequers plan commands neither the support of her party nor the European Union.
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