The moonshot delusion
Why the left is too starry-eyed on economics.
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The unlikely radical
The misrepresenting of Monica Jones
Why Philip Larkin’s lover deserved better than to be the butt of abusive caricatures.
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The dark side of our age of fitness
What is the link between neoliberalism and working out?
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Reviewed in short: New books by Margaret Reynolds, Michio Kaku, AK Blakemore and Jay Griffiths
The Wild Track by Reynolds, The God Equation by Kaku, The Manningtree Witches by Blakemore and Why Rebel by Griffiths.
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The NS Poem: When a story tells itself to stop
A new poem by Sarah Lasoye.
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Scott Galloway: the wolf at Big Tech’s door
How the maverick US academic took on Silicon Valley.
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America’s race to net zero
Does Joe Biden’s climate plan go far enough?
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Annalena Baerbock: the woman who could become Germany’s first Green chancellor
Baerbock embodies the once-fringe party’s emergence as a force capable of conquering the German political centre.
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Stravinsky the shapeshifter
Fifty years after his death, the Russian iconoclast remains indefinable – a stylistic chameleon who continues to confound his audiences.
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The cameraless images of Anna Atkins
How Atkins’s striking cyanotypes found wonders in the minutiae of the natural world.
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The Apology Line is a curious, compelling listen
Confessional voicemails recorded by strangers in Eighties New York are at the centre of this strange story.
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Kate Winslet gives a fierce, fearless performance in Mare of Easttown
Some people will doubtless watch this series for her alone. But there are other reasons why you might want…
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Chloé Zhao’s Oscar-nominated Nomadland is a powerful drama-documentary hybrid
Frances McDormand plays a flinty, 60-something widow, but is surrounded by real figures from the non-fiction book, playing themselves.
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This England: Gnome-where to be seen
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s Richard II, refers to the whole of Britain…
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“Long Covid” has spurred a big research effort, which promises to do more than help sufferers
A year ago, Covid was considered a binary disease: recovery or death. But for 10 per cent of those…
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My rock and hard place: the price to pay for loving the pub is the price of going to the pub
To put it brutally, the only way I have managed to remain financially afloat this year is because my local…
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I finally understand the importance of serendipity – something Champagne makers knew all along
As I try Italian wines that blend the familiar and the unknown, I reflect on how many unexpected encounters with…
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As I enter my empty office building, I feel a strange mix of elation, anticipation and anxiety
Last summer I didn’t take advantage of the loosening of rules and I regretted it; but this time I am allowing…
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Ibram X Kendi Q&A: “Racism is harming white people and they don’t notice it“
The author discusses the writings of WEB Du Bois, watching Lovecraft Country and his admiration for Malcolm X.
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Stephen Pollard’s Diary: I have leukaemia, my immune system is in pieces, and so the vaccine is entirely useless for me
For everyone suffering with compromised immune systems, lockdown easing remains a source of great anxiety.
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Joe Biden’s first 100 days have been action-packed, but on foreign policy he is moving more slowly
One cutting example is that children are still being locked away in jail-like facilities at the US-Mexico border.
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We should be more generous to our former prime ministers – and, yes, that includes David Cameron
The US reveres its past presidents, while we banish our leaders into a purgatory of forced retirement.
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I’m a middle-class millennial and intermittent vegan, yet I find Extinction Rebellion insufferable
Flashy stunts are not the answer to the climate crisis stalemate.
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What the West can learn from Alexei Navalny
By revealing and fighting kleptocracy, even with next to no resources, Navalny shows a way to expose the corruption…
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The furore over the proposed European Super League is about one question: who runs our lives?
This is how power operates in its most unaccountable form: a hand grenade tossed into the heart of European…
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In trying to end uncertainty, the Premier League’s Big Six showed they know nothing of their sport
The owners of these clubs betrayed football’s meaning by rendering the players’ effort and the fans’ passion void.
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Letter of the week: A concept that could work
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: A man of action
The US president’s economic radicalism shows how conservative orthodoxies are crumbling.
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First Thoughts: Full time for football, mushroom magic, and the meaning of Generation Buy
“Following the science” shouldn’t just be for lockdown – ministers have a moral duty to take note of research into…
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Zara Mohammed interview: “Muslims are never the heroes on TV”
At 29, Mohammed is the youngest secretary-general of the Muslim Council of Britain – and the first woman in the…
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Commons Confidential: Banished from the boozer
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Is the Dogecoin bubble as irrational as it looks?
The joke currency is able to exploit the group psychology of the internet in ways that other investments cannot.
By The dark side of our age of fitness
What is the link between neoliberalism and working out?
By Reviewed in short: New books by Margaret Reynolds, Michio Kaku, AK Blakemore and Jay Griffiths
The Wild Track by Reynolds, The God Equation by Kaku, The Manningtree Witches by Blakemore and Why Rebel by Griffiths.
By The NS Poem: When a story tells itself to stop
A new poem by Sarah Lasoye.
By The Apology Line is a curious, compelling listen
Confessional voicemails recorded by strangers in Eighties New York are at the centre of this strange story.
By Kate Winslet gives a fierce, fearless performance in Mare of Easttown
Some people will doubtless watch this series for her alone. But there are other reasons why you might want…
By Chloé Zhao’s Oscar-nominated Nomadland is a powerful drama-documentary hybrid
Frances McDormand plays a flinty, 60-something widow, but is surrounded by real figures from the non-fiction book, playing themselves.
By First Thoughts: Full time for football, mushroom magic, and the meaning of Generation Buy
“Following the science” shouldn’t just be for lockdown – ministers have a moral duty to take note of research into…
By Zara Mohammed interview: “Muslims are never the heroes on TV”
At 29, Mohammed is the youngest secretary-general of the Muslim Council of Britain – and the first woman in the…
By Commons Confidential: Banished from the boozer
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
By I finally understand the importance of serendipity – something Champagne makers knew all along
As I try Italian wines that blend the familiar and the unknown, I reflect on how many unexpected encounters with…
By My rock and hard place: the price to pay for loving the pub is the price of going to the pub
To put it brutally, the only way I have managed to remain financially afloat this year is because my local…
By As I enter my empty office building, I feel a strange mix of elation, anticipation and anxiety
Last summer I didn’t take advantage of the loosening of rules and I regretted it; but this time I am allowing…
By This England: Gnome-where to be seen
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s Richard II, refers to the whole of Britain…
By I’m a middle-class millennial and intermittent vegan, yet I find Extinction Rebellion insufferable
Flashy stunts are not the answer to the climate crisis stalemate.
By We should be more generous to our former prime ministers – and, yes, that includes David Cameron
The US reveres its past presidents, while we banish our leaders into a purgatory of forced retirement.
By “Long Covid” has spurred a big research effort, which promises to do more than help sufferers
A year ago, Covid was considered a binary disease: recovery or death. But for 10 per cent of those…
By Stephen Pollard’s Diary: I have leukaemia, my immune system is in pieces, and so the vaccine is entirely useless for me
For everyone suffering with compromised immune systems, lockdown easing remains a source of great anxiety.
ByEmail [email protected] if you would like to be the New Statesman‘s Subscriber of the Week.
By Ibram X Kendi Q&A: “Racism is harming white people and they don’t notice it“
The author discusses the writings of WEB Du Bois, watching Lovecraft Country and his admiration for Malcolm X.
By What the West can learn from Alexei Navalny
By revealing and fighting kleptocracy, even with next to no resources, Navalny shows a way to expose the corruption…
By Letter of the week: A concept that could work
A selection of the best letters received from our readers this week. Email [email protected] to have your thoughts voiced…
By Joe Biden’s first 100 days have been action-packed, but on foreign policy he is moving more slowly
One cutting example is that children are still being locked away in jail-like facilities at the US-Mexico border.
By Leader: A man of action
The US president’s economic radicalism shows how conservative orthodoxies are crumbling.
By The furore over the proposed European Super League is about one question: who runs our lives?
This is how power operates in its most unaccountable form: a hand grenade tossed into the heart of European…
By In trying to end uncertainty, the Premier League’s Big Six showed they know nothing of their sport
The owners of these clubs betrayed football’s meaning by rendering the players’ effort and the fans’ passion void.
By Is the Dogecoin bubble as irrational as it looks?
The joke currency is able to exploit the group psychology of the internet in ways that other investments cannot.
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