Fruitcake has long been a part of British celebrations
And it will be at my wedding.
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Paolo Sorrentino’s Parthenope is an exercise in the male gaze
The Italian director’s latest film is all beauty and no sense.
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Also featuring The Dream Factory by Daniel Swift and The Fall of the House of Montagu by Robert Wainwright.
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Britain’s small boats obsession
Overcrowded dinghies used for desperate, dangerous crossings have become totemic in our toxic immigration conversation.
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Solvej Balle’s day without end
In this Danish novel, a woman stuck in a repeating time loop is forced to consider the very fundamentals of…
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Friedrich Merz has emboldened Germany’s far right
The incoming chancellor’s coalition compromises leave a lot of space for the AfD.
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How the world stopped Hitler
The Second World War was not just won on the battlefield, but in seemingly marginal regions from Ireland to Iraq.
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Harvard, elite privilege and the weaponisation of anti-Semitism
How should liberals pick between Donald Trump and this bastion of institutional elitism?
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Keir Starmer must attack now to see off Farage
Donald Trump’s chaos gives the Prime Minister the perfect opportunity to move decisively.
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Lawrence Newport: “It’s more than system failure – it’s people failure”
The campaigner and Dominic Cummings ally on why political change requires bravery.
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Does anyone want a Tory-Reform alliance?
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Letter of the week: Keep the faith
Write to [email protected] to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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The Canadian example
Mark Carney’s election victory has proved that populist advance is not inevitable.
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Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes brings horror flooding back
Jeff Pope’s meticulous, minute-by-minute reconstruction of the events of July 2005 reveals the shameful circumstances of De Menezes’ death.
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The sounds that shape us
Alice Vincent’s Hark asks why gender, age and parenthood change the way we listen.
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One hundred days of autocracy
Since Donald Trump’s inauguration, America has experienced a complete regime change.
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The second birth of JMW Turner
This year marks the 250th anniversary of his birth, but it was a midlife encounter with two landscapes that created…
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The English rebel
Like other dissident populists before him, Nigel Farage has already changed British history – and he isn’t done yet.
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South Korea’s chaos politics
Conspiracy, power grabs and violence threaten the country’s democracy.
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Clothes unmaketh man
Consider my outrage: a landlady refused to serve me. I was sober.
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