Can Mary Barton save Britain’s badgers?
Parliament’s longest-standing protester is fighting to end the culls – but Labour’s Steve Reed is biting back
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How dating apps killed romance
As swiping wanes, people are searching for connection where it’s always existed: in real life
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Why I always make time to dream
Also this week: Empowering artists to challenge tyranny, and a bumper year for apples
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The prophecies of Paul Kingsnorth
In his new book, Against the Machine, the former ecologist blames technology for the coming climate apocalypse
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On patrol with Labour’s Mike Tapp
The migration minister is hawkish on protecting Britain’s borders – but rejects Reform’s politics of division
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The living hostages have returned, but Israel is divided
The capture of so many civilians on 7 October transformed Israeli society’s sense of itself
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Jonathan Powell and Tony Blair at the court of Donald Trump
The Brits who helped broker the deal in Gaza
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Powell vs Phillipson is an old battle reborn
Soft leftism is colliding with the spirit of early Blairism.
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Thatcher-land
The market town of Grantham gave us Margaret Thatcher. One hundred years after her birth, what is left there of…
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Victoria Beckham’s needlessly boring TV makeover
The singer-turned-designer’s new documentary is a surface-level retelling of an otherwise fascinating life
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Good Boy: horror in a dog’s life
Ben Leonberg’s directorial debut, told from a canine’s-eye view, gives new, tail-wagging life to a predictable genre
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The painful human reality of the small-boats crisis
The migrants crossing the Channel are seeking a better life in Britain
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Britain’s digital delinquents
Organised gangs and hostile states are recruiting teenage hackers to wreak havoc online
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Beware weight-loss drug statistics
The details are more complex than pharma’s pitch suggests
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Martyn Oliver: “Schools are more than a single-word judgement”
The Ofsted chief inspector on the organisation’s new assessment system
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I want to be deputy leader so I can do more
Also this week: taking the fight to Reform, and ministerial karaoke at Labour conference
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Letter of the week: Love thy neighbour
Write to [email protected] to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine
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Kemi Badenoch’s sarnie of destiny
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster
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Britain’s sense of decline is terminal
Even the Doing-OK parts of the country suffer from the anxieties of the past decade
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As the new MCC president, I want to open up the game to everyone
It will be a privilege to watch cricket history and innovation converge
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