In Canada, I am rediscovering what being a GP can mean
Wes Streeting could learn a thing or two from British Columbia.
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“Minerality” is a wine industry myth
Tasting notes often rely on misleading metaphors – we’re not really drinking soil soup.
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Home is where the Hove-l is
The casual observer might think the person who lived in my flat had gone beyond depression into a state of…
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The right note to end on
In my columns for the New Statesman, I’ve recorded more than a decade of my life. But now it’s time…
ByOctober 1973: As war ravages the Middle East, John Maddox analyses how the Arab oil embargo will affect the global…
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This England: A regular flappuccino
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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Welcome to HMO Britain
While neighbours suffer, landlords are cashing in on Britain’s demand for houses in multiple occupation.
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Who will join the Labour rebellion?
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Eddie Dempsey on why Britain needs a trade union revival
The RMT general secretary is a product of the old left. Can his vision of a popular, resurgent labour movement…
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The pro-Palestine movement’s alternative campus
The Soas Liberated Zone is offering the London university’s students a different kind of educational experience.
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Britain is dangerously exposed to the whims of despots
An attack on Iranian oil infrastructure could produce a price shock comparable to 2022.
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Keir Starmer faces war on all fronts
The Prime Minister’s authority is under attack and Rachel Reeves may pay the price.
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Is Thomas Skinner the future of the right?
A Tory MP, a Brexiteer historian, a Reform clown and a reality-TV star walk into an auditorium…
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Jeff Bezos’s Venetian wedding is a pageant of bad taste
As it should be.
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How to do it like a movie star
The lessons an intimacy coordinator is teaching the film industry about real sex apply off screen and on.
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Keir Starmer has a problem: the left is organising
From a revived Corbynite movement to Green leadership hopeful Zack Polanski, Labour faces a new threat.
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A perilous age
From Israel and Iran to Ukraine and Russia, nations across the globe are engaged in existential battles.
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Letter of the week: The Chancellor of tomorrow
Write to [email protected] to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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Thom Yorke’s Hamlet is brilliantly rendered sacrilege
In an inventive theatrical mash-up, Radiohead’s album Hail to the Thief perfectly articulates the prince’s torment.
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