Magazine

Can Reform grow up?

After scandals and infighting, Nigel Farage’s party faces its first big test on 1 May, at England’s local elections.

Launching Britain into the new space age

Also this week: Elon Musk wields the axe in Washington, and Hollywood lands in Bedfordshire.

Please email [email protected] if you would like to be featured.

This England: Holy cosplaying cops!

This England. This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of…

Farewell to the Lady, a magazine for more genteel times

Also this week: Big Tech’s multiplying court cases, and the sale of the Telegraph limps on.

Watching football is also watching everything else

From Kenny Dalglish’s hair to the evocative names of players, the game is a carnival of distraction.

I loved performing again, but you have to keep a foot in normal life

Our gigs went better than I could have hoped; even the things that went wrong added to the magic.

Thought experiment 10: The Trolley Problem

The moral dilemma that broke free of academic discourse and became a runaway meme.

The road that built England

The country’s elusive identity resides not in a National Trust garden, but on the thundering dual carriageway of the A1.

Who are the white working class?

A deeply reported survey of a much-mythologised slice of Britain reveals a heterogeneous, complex demographic.

I, Jack Wright is a riot of a show

With a great cast and bold writing, Chris Lang’s new murder mystery drama is deliciously watchable.

The cinema of abortion

On-screen portraits of abortionists are rare. April, which follows a doctor in rural Georgia, is starkly honest – and beautiful.

How the Titanic sank

The BBC Sounds podcast Titanic: Ship of Dreams captures every detail of the catastrophe.

The first and last New Journalist

Gay Talese published a candid account of his infidelities in 1980. His marriage survived; his career almost didn’t.

From Omar El Akkad to Laura Spinney: new books reviewed in short

Also featuring Open, Heaven by Seán Hewitt and Mythica by Emily Hauser.

Melinda Gates Q&A: “A man with a gun is not as powerful as a girl with a book”

The philanthropist on her mother’s kindness and being a breast-pump pioneer.

Trump’s plan for chaos

How the US president’s assault on prosperity is transforming the world.

Why China is winning

In the struggle with the US for dominance, which superpower’s patriotic determination is stronger?

Anarchy in the “yookay”

How the new right came to loathe Britain even more than the radical left.

Letter of the week: The stories we tell

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