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We must prepare for Prime Minister Farage

If something is beginning to look inevitable, let’s talk about it.

From Stephen King to Noah Eaton: new books reviewed in short

Also featuring A Perfect Harmony by David Darling and “I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer” edited by Mary Beth Norton.

April 1979: Mervyn King calls for tax system reform.

Whither the whitebait?

My favourite seafront seafood dish is no longer made with breadcrumbs. We are truly living in the worst of times.

Inside the BBC’s Glastonbury debacle

Your weekly dose of news and gossip from journalism, broadcasting and beyond.

Letter of the week: Labour’s sorry stories

Write to [email protected] to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.

Quadrophenia the ballet is a storm of movement

The dance version of the Who’s rock opera is full of stunning choreography, but the classic mod story is lost…

The phone call that halted Israel’s strikes on Iran

Also this week: Sirens in Jerusalem and an audience with Isaac Herzog.

What does Adam Curtis know?

In his latest series, the documentarian collages an Eighties revolution framed by Margaret Thatcher and Stephen Hawking.

Labour’s prayer for growth

Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.

We need a culture change in maternity services

There is something bigger going on than just staff shortages, low morale or lack of funding.

7/7 changed life for British Muslims forever

It was the 2005 bombings, not 9/11, that put them at the centre of terror discourse.

Trump’s “big, beautiful” tax bill is a big, beautiful opportunity for the Democrats

But do they have the smarts to take advantage?

The hunt for Iran’s missing uranium

Somewhere in the country, enough material to make ten nuclear bombs remains hidden.

The horror of Gaza’s children’s hospitals

One doctor’s experience of life and death in the warzone.

How terror came home on 7/7

In Three Weeks in July, Adam Wishart and James Nally show how the Islamist bomb attacks of July 2005 changed…

The endless variety of England’s folk traditions

Lally MacBeth’s attempt to chronicle of-the-people culture in detail is a treasure trove of both British folk memory and new…

Jurassic Park Rebirth is phoney and illogical

The seventh iteration of the dinosaur franchise leaves viewers feeling stupider and sadder the longer it goes on.

Thought experiment 13: The comet that destroys the Earth after our death

If we knew human existence was soon to end, would we care about any of life’s projects and pastimes?

Jane Austen’s subtle food commentary

The lack of domestic detail in the author’s worlds leaves much to chew on.