Richard Tice’s pitch to Tory Middle England
At Guildford Rugby Club, Nigel Farage’s number two goes into salesman mode to entice Reform-curious Conservatives
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Journalism in an age of decline and degradation
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Anthony Barnett: “The Sixties were a catastrophic failure”
The writer and campaigner on nationalism, the rise of the new right and how a fractured left can organise…
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The only way is Wexford
Also this week: A new president for Ireland, and an operatic national anthem
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For whom the Torsten Bell tolls
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster
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Letter of the week: Doomed to repeat the past
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine
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The Reform revolution will be Americanised
Nigel Farage’s plans for government are already being drawn up
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Nick Fuentes leads Maga into the anti-Semitic gutter
Tucker Carlson has given Fuentes, the far-right provocateur, airtime on one of the biggest platforms in the world
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Knife crime is creeping into Middle England
Overall knife crime is down. But Huntingdon’s attack symbolises its commute from the cities to the suburbs and shires
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Britain’s next maternity scandal
A four-month investigation with Channel 4 News reveals harrowing failings at one of Britain’s most prestigious hospitals
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Jordan, the crossroads of empires
On the periphery of war, Jordan remains vulnerable but it stands resolute
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All your data belongs to us: the rise of Palantir
A biography of the tech company’s founder Alex Karp reveals the philosophy behind its troubling conquest of the world
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Anthony Bourdain reheated
A new collection of his writing tells us more than ever about the chef
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Martin Scorsese, priest of the silver screen
In his youth, the great auteur wanted to join the Church – but he practised his faith better from…
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Who killed the social housing dream?
A new history of Britain’s tower blocks reveals the ways architecture and ideology have combined to ensure residents are…
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Jennifer Lawrence gives everything to Die My Love
Lynne Ramsay’s film is an extraordinary adaptation of an extreme story about a life in meltdown
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Death by Lightning: the unsung ballad of James Garfield
Netflix’s period piece tells the story of a president overlooked by history and his oddball assassin
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Florence and the Machine’s season of the witch
Her new album Everybody Scream is shaped by the occult but portrays profoundly human experiences
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How not to adapt a great novel
The new theatre adaptation of Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty loses the beauty
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A tale of two River Cafés
Why British haute cuisine is obsessed with fake modesty
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My first kleptomania patient
The disease raises questions about the limits of criminal responsibility, though a breach of trust is a breach of…
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Time weighs heavy in my childhood home
I wonder how going into the street shooting at the road signs with my dad’s air rifle would go…
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Joan of Arc wins me £12.50
Parents, pay close attention to the media your children consume
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This England: Nip it in the bud
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain…
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From the archive: After thalidomide
January 1973: Paul Foot rails against establishment neglect of the thalidomide children
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