The wild pictures of Rosa Bonheur
The unconventional “tomboy” lived and painted with the animals in the open air.
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Vaccine nation
Steve McQueen’s Small Axe films tell forgotten, hidden or hitherto ignored stories
The performances are wonderful, especially those of the women.
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The Telegraph’s Bed of Lies explores crimes of the British state
Feature writer Cara McGoogan says the show investigates “one of the biggest scandals in recent British history”.
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Love & Basketball is more than a chick flick
Gina Prince-Bythewood’s 2000 debut film is clear-eyed and serious about female ambition and gender roles.
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Lionel Barber: “The issue for me was, can I ever be as good as my father?”
The former Financial Times editor on Brexit, learning from his father, and the crisis of liberalism.
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Commons Confidential: Dom lost in space
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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How QAnon conspiracy theorists entered the US Congress
Professional purveyors of falsehoods are now among America’s trusted lawmakers.
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Why sick strongmen find refuge in a myth of invincibility
After contracting Covid-19, Donald Trump, Boris Johnson and Jair Bolsonaro revived the ideology of state immortality.
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How to save the United Kingdom
The pandemic has brutally exposed the dysfunctional British state. Nationalism is not the solution – but big change is…
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Have we reached peak London?
How Covid-19 halted the relentless rise of the capital.
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GPs are excitedly preparing for a Covid-19 vaccine – but will everyone take it?
The UK is set to obtain sufficient quantities to begin immunising the 20 million most vulnerable people before the…
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Why Covid-19 vaccines offer cause for hope and concern
Many are optimistic after news of two vaccines claiming 90 per cent efficacy. But the global search for the most…
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Peter Sutcliffe’s long shadow across the north
Some might say that the Yorkshire Ripper’s death marks the closing of a chapter, but in the north of…
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What the cat knows
How our feline companions can teach us to exist in the world.
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Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet: a brilliantly observed historical novel
O’Farrell’s remarkable novel about Shakespeare’s son is both painful and satisfying.
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Vivian Gornick’s conversations with communists
How the American essayist captured the left’s awakening and disillusionment through the power of talk.
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Delusions of failure
We are drawn to the idea that we can turn our mistakes into milestones – but there are no…
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NS Recommends: new books from Julian Baggini, Eavan Boland, Thomas McMullan and Wendy A Woloson
Baggini’s The Godless Gospel, Boland’s The Historians, McMullan’s The Last Good Man, and Woloson’s Crap.
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The NS Poem: I Was Woken by the Leader of the Free World
A new poem by Maurice Riordan.
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Rosena Allin-Khan’s Diary: Pandemic loneliness, and my shifts on the NHS front line
At food banks, people aren’t just turning up for food, but company too.
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We are fascinated by women who kill – because when women go bad they go bad in their own way
If the neonatal nurse Lucy Letby, charged with killing eight babies, is found guilty, she will attract a very…
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Why Scotland qualifying for Euro 2021 matters to the SNP
At this moment, the country’s sporting success feels more relevant to its politics than at any point in recent…
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The links between Trumpism and George W Bush go far beyond a contested election
The effects of the 2000 presidential election are still being felt, 20 years on.
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Why Dominic Cummings’s departure from No 10 won’t change Boris Johnson
The world will not come off its axis because Cummings has left his post. But, his exit could be…
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Editor’s Note: Boris Johnson’s elite cadre of fallen intellectuals, and Rabbi Sacks and the common good
Last week, in an unedifying spectacle, the clercs in and around the Court of Boris in Westminster were tearing…
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Boris Johnson yearns for the time when, as London mayor, he was popular. But those days are gone
The world the PM wants to reclaim is one when the UK had yet to be divided by Brexit.
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I know the story of Joy Division well – yet I was still moved by a new podcast on the band
Transmissions takes in Factory Records, Unknown Pleasures, and Ian Curtis’s suicide, with interviews from Peter Hook, Stephen Morris, Bernard Sumner and…
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Why Beaujolais wine – like the region’s forgotten princess – is woefully underappreciated
Made from the Gamay grape, these wines are fruity and delicious lightly chilled: unashamedly different from the big boys…
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In lockdown, video calls taunt me with showcases of other people’s homes
One of the unfortunate side-effects of the Covid-19 pandemic is we have seen, paradoxically, a lot more of the…
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This England: Escape to the country
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s Richard II, refers to the whole of Britain – has…
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Skin Q&A: “I’ve fallen in love with cacti“
The Skunk Anansie singer discusses life as an RAF kid, Roots, and advice from Alexander McQueen.
By Leader: A plan for Britain
The Covid-19 pandemic has worsened existing divides, and time is now running out to save the Union.
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Letter of the week: What liberals want
A selection of the best letters received from our readers this week. Email [email protected] to have your thoughts voiced in the New…
By NS Recommends: new books from Julian Baggini, Eavan Boland, Thomas McMullan and Wendy A Woloson
Baggini’s The Godless Gospel, Boland’s The Historians, McMullan’s The Last Good Man, and Woloson’s Crap.
By Love & Basketball is more than a chick flick
Gina Prince-Bythewood’s 2000 debut film is clear-eyed and serious about female ambition and gender roles.
By Steve McQueen’s Small Axe films tell forgotten, hidden or hitherto ignored stories
The performances are wonderful, especially those of the women.
By Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet: a brilliantly observed historical novel
O’Farrell’s remarkable novel about Shakespeare’s son is both painful and satisfying.
By Commons Confidential: Dom lost in space
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
By Vivian Gornick’s conversations with communists
How the American essayist captured the left’s awakening and disillusionment through the power of talk.
By Why Scotland qualifying for Euro 2021 matters to the SNP
At this moment, the country’s sporting success feels more relevant to its politics than at any point in recent…
By We are fascinated by women who kill – because when women go bad they go bad in their own way
If the neonatal nurse Lucy Letby, charged with killing eight babies, is found guilty, she will attract a very…
By Delusions of failure
We are drawn to the idea that we can turn our mistakes into milestones – but there are no…
By Why Dominic Cummings’s departure from No 10 won’t change Boris Johnson
The world will not come off its axis because Cummings has left his post. But, his exit could be…
By The Telegraph’s Bed of Lies explores crimes of the British state
Feature writer Cara McGoogan says the show investigates “one of the biggest scandals in recent British history”.
By The links between Trumpism and George W Bush go far beyond a contested election
The effects of the 2000 presidential election are still being felt, 20 years on.
By Rosena Allin-Khan’s Diary: Pandemic loneliness, and my shifts on the NHS front line
At food banks, people aren’t just turning up for food, but company too.
By Letter of the week: What liberals want
A selection of the best letters received from our readers this week. Email [email protected] to have your thoughts voiced in the New…
By Why Beaujolais wine – like the region’s forgotten princess – is woefully underappreciated
Made from the Gamay grape, these wines are fruity and delicious lightly chilled: unashamedly different from the big boys…
By In lockdown, video calls taunt me with showcases of other people’s homes
One of the unfortunate side-effects of the Covid-19 pandemic is we have seen, paradoxically, a lot more of the…
By The NS Poem: I Was Woken by the Leader of the Free World
A new poem by Maurice Riordan.
By I know the story of Joy Division well – yet I was still moved by a new podcast on the band
Transmissions takes in Factory Records, Unknown Pleasures, and Ian Curtis’s suicide, with interviews from Peter Hook, Stephen Morris, Bernard Sumner and…
By This England: Escape to the country
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s Richard II, refers to the whole of Britain – has…
ByEmail [email protected] if you would like to be the New Statesman‘s Subscriber of the Week.
By Boris Johnson yearns for the time when, as London mayor, he was popular. But those days are gone
The world the PM wants to reclaim is one when the UK had yet to be divided by Brexit.
By Skin Q&A: “I’ve fallen in love with cacti“
The Skunk Anansie singer discusses life as an RAF kid, Roots, and advice from Alexander McQueen.
By Editor’s Note: Boris Johnson’s elite cadre of fallen intellectuals, and Rabbi Sacks and the common good
Last week, in an unedifying spectacle, the clercs in and around the Court of Boris in Westminster were tearing…
By Leader: A plan for Britain
The Covid-19 pandemic has worsened existing divides, and time is now running out to save the Union.
By How QAnon conspiracy theorists entered the US Congress
Professional purveyors of falsehoods are now among America’s trusted lawmakers.
By Why sick strongmen find refuge in a myth of invincibility
After contracting Covid-19, Donald Trump, Boris Johnson and Jair Bolsonaro revived the ideology of state immortality.
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