This England: Seeds of doubt
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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Three years on from lockdowns, I have finally tested positive for Covid
I was going to discuss a fictional island but I am now a virtual castaway myself.
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A guide to Berlin’s orchestral etiquette
Also: My brush with bicycle “fascism” and a sobering threat to fiction writing.
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Why are Tories so obsessed with Gary Lineker?
Also this week: a brawl at Lord’s and the US-Saudi golf rivalry.
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Heavyweight: a podcast full of humanity
The eighth season of Jonathan Goldstein’s show tells real-life stories that are compelling, empathetic and full of character.
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Ludovic Slimak: “We cannot imagine another humanity”
The French paleoanthropologist on how the Neanderthals lived.
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Peter Mandelson was omnipresent at the Labour conference
Your dose of gossip from around Westminster and the Liverpool Convention Centre.
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Letter of the week: Travelling backwards
Write to [email protected] to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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The revenge of history
How Israel forgot the lessons of the Yom Kippur War.
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A new age of volatility
Hamas’ recent brutal attack on Israel reconfirms that the post-Cold War era of Western triumphalism is over.
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The Hamas attack was driven by a brutal ideology
The atrocities committed against Israeli civilians have roots in the same fanaticism activists face in Iran.
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No 10 strategists are wrong to think Keir Starmer is weak
The Labour leader has treated past embarrassments in his party with much more ruthlessness than Rishi Sunak has done.
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From Clinton Heylin to AK Blakemore: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring The Right to Rule by Ben Riley-Smith and One Fine Day by Matthew Parker.
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The left’s slide in Germany is a warning for Labour
In power, Olaf Scholz’s coalition offers no answers for a country that has lost its competitive edge in the world.…
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Fear and glitter at the Labour Party conference
After a TV grilling, Sir Keir delivered his speech in the guise of an accountant lost in Glasto.
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How Michael Lewis fell for Sam Bankman-Fried
In Going Infinite, the author fails to see the limits of his subject’s intelligence.
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The BBC’s Jimmy Savile drama is entirely gratuitous
The Reckoning exposes a rotten culture that serves up stories about abused women for entertainment.
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The battle for China’s history
Xi Jinping controls the story of his country’s past to crush dissent. But historians are fighting to keep the truth…
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Lubaina Himid’s Q&A: “I’m bothered by my inability to destroy the patriarchy”
The artist on her hero Betye Saar, Match of the Day and being told to “Just paint”.
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As personal heart monitors, smart watches are not so smart
The popularity of wearables is muddying health data and fuelling an epidemic of scans and anxiety.
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