In praise of neighbourhood sleuths
Also this week: Sympathy for Liz Truss’s lawyer, and mum’s not the word.
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The playful trend of “chaos gardening”
It’s time to tear up the horticultural rulebook and indulge in curiosity.
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Spotify is not as cheap as it seems
And it’s making music worse.
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This England: Carriage returns
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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The Bob Dylan mystery machine
In A Complete Unknown, director James Mangold and actor Timothée Chalamet present Dylan as an enigma – a mythology favoured…
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The Pierre Bonnard renaissance
The enigmatic French painter is seen by many as a league below Matisse. But a new book proves them wrong…
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Christopher Nolan’s Zeus complex
The Odyssey is the perfect canvas for the director’s obsession with power and time.
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Why Mark ZuckerBro turned Meta Maga
Plus: Dominic Cummings cosies up to Elon Musk, and a reboot at the Beeb.
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Trump’s bluster conceals an old conservative script: cut taxes, slash the state
Far from being “populist”, the Republican Party is on the cusp of finally attaining its heart’s desire since the New…
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Emily Thornberry: “I want to rebuild good vibes about the UK”
Labour’s chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee on Britain’s place in the world.
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What makes the toolmaker’s son tick?
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Letter of the week: Rules of engagement
Write to [email protected] to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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The strange death of the centre right
Moderate conservatives have allowed themselves to be marginalised by their populist rivals.
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How to find joy in January
Let’s keep the festivities going. The Christmas season doesn’t conclude until February, anyway.
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From Marcus Bull to Alva Gotby: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring: The Grammar of Angels by Edward Wilson-Lee and The Shape of Things Unseen by Adam Zeman.
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Will the bond markets defeat Rachel Reeves?
Britain is living through a technological revolution. Labour cannot afford to panic on the economy.
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Elon Musk’s hostile takeover
Inside the mind of the billionaire at the heart of American power.
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Letter from Los Angeles: My city is burning
The fires ripping through LA show that, here, beauty and danger are two sides of a coin.
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The confessions of Pope Francis
Can Hope, his autobiographical meditations on migration, sexuality and war, assuage a Catholic church in crisis?
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Yukio Mishima’s lifelong death wish
The Japanese writer and nationalist, a darling of the US far right, was haunted by the aesthetics of self-destruction.
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