Is Keir Starmer turning into Harold Wilson?
His government is routed and restless – and the future of social democracy is at stake.
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Just Raise Tax!
Stop taking Glastonbury so seriously
The festival is a monument to ephemera.
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Morgan McSweeney’s moment of truth
The battle over welfare is part of a battle for the soul of Labour.
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The phone call that halted Israel’s strikes on Iran
Also this week: Sirens in Jerusalem and an audience with Isaac Herzog.
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Labour’s prayer for growth
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Inside the BBC’s Glastonbury debacle
Your weekly dose of news and gossip from journalism, broadcasting and beyond.
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Letter of the week: Labour’s sorry stories
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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We must prepare for Prime Minister Farage
If something is beginning to look inevitable, let’s talk about it.
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Trump’s “big, beautiful” tax bill is a big, beautiful opportunity for the Democrats
But do they have the smarts to take advantage?
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We need a culture change in maternity services
There is something bigger going on than just staff shortages, low morale or lack of funding.
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7/7 changed life for British Muslims forever
It was the 2005 bombings, not 9/11, that put them at the centre of terror discourse.
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Anna Wintour still rules Vogue
The magazine and the woman cannot be unstitched; they are symbiotic, an incredibly chic ouroboros.
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Just raise tax
Rachel Reeves cannot tweak her way out of this crisis. The system must be torn down.
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The hunt for Iran’s missing uranium
Somewhere in the country, enough material to make ten nuclear bombs remains hidden.
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The horror of Gaza’s children’s hospitals
One doctor’s experience of life and death in the warzone.
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How terror came home on 7/7
In Three Weeks in July, Adam Wishart and James Nally show how the Islamist bomb attacks of July 2005…
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From Stephen King to Noah Eaton: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring A Perfect Harmony by David Darling and “I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer” edited by Mary Beth…
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The earworms of Erik Satie
The dapper composer who invented background music was driven by a profound if offbeat religiosity.
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The endless variety of England’s folk traditions
Lally MacBeth’s attempt to chronicle of-the-people culture in detail is a treasure trove of both British folk memory and…
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Jenny Saville’s human landscapes
The British artist has built a career bringing a new perspective to figures and flesh.
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Jurassic Park Rebirth is phoney and illogical
The seventh iteration of the dinosaur franchise leaves viewers feeling stupider and sadder the longer it goes on.
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What does Adam Curtis know?
In his latest series, the documentarian collages an Eighties revolution framed by Margaret Thatcher and Stephen Hawking.
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Quadrophenia the ballet is a storm of movement
The dance version of the Who’s rock opera is full of stunning choreography, but the classic mod story is…
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Jane Austen’s subtle food commentary
The lack of domestic detail in the author’s worlds leaves much to chew on.
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Thought experiment 13: The comet that destroys the Earth after our death
If we knew human existence was soon to end, would we care about any of life’s projects and pastimes?
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Whither the whitebait?
My favourite seafront seafood dish is no longer made with breadcrumbs. We are truly living in the worst of…
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When my father died, I felt I should have been full of profound words
Instead, I found that I had none.
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This England: Selective memory
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: Reality: a charter for avoidance
April 1979: Mervyn King calls for tax system reform.
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