This England: Taking the biscuit
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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Trailing Liz Truss on the Maga speaking circuit
Also this week: reflecting on Wilde, and American political lingo
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Big tech’s futile attempt to kill death
Silicon Valley is pursuing immortality with religious zeal – but what’s the point?
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Down Cemetery Road: a hugely enjoyable ride
The whole thing is a delectable blend of intrigue and jokes, often at the expense of identity politics
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Nigel Farage can be stopped
Reform’s onward march is not inevitable. Across the world, progressives are actually winning
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Inside the Send class war
Parents detect an element of divide and rule from politicos
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I have gallstones and cannot eat my favourite things
Why does everything always get worse?
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The men of Sheffield used to race pigeons – now they eat wings
Thorstein Veblen once condemned the “leisure class” and I think in 2025 he may have had a point
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Rewilding Rory Stewart
Deeply rooted in the landscape of the Borders, The Rest Is Politics co-host is a rural romantic at heart
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Macron cannot accept how impotent he has become
If Marine Le Pen wins power, much of the blame will fall on Macron
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Bugonia shows Yorgos Lanthimos’ mastery of the grotesque
Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons match each other in ferocity
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Labour now knows Reform is beatable
Starmer has cast defeating Farage as a moral obligation. So if he falls short, must he make way?
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Ringo Starr, the god with feet of clay
A new book about the drummer reveals a Beatle who felt like he never quite fit
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Letter of the week: Where is Labour’s fire?
Write to [email protected] to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine
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The radical in me has been stirred
The rumbling revelations about the Duke of York have forced us all to start thinking about it again
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Laura Mulvey returns to the male gaze
The phrase coined 50 years ago by the filmmaker and theorist has itself been subject to forceful scrutiny
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Jimmy Wales: “Elon Musk is very pleasant to me in private”
Mr Wikipedia on Donald Trump, AI and trust on the internet
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Katie Lam: right-wing Terminator
Plus, your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster
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Who killed Pasolini?
Olivia Laing’s new tale of gay love imagines the murder of the Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini
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Kamala Harris’s dream world
At London’s Southbank centre, a victory in “spirit” seemed to compensate for a crushing defeat in reality
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