Big Tech is buttering you up
Called before MPs, tech execs display their constant vigilance against threats
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In this week’s issue
The Great British Crisis
Milan and the tragedy of decline
The final Milan derby in the storied San Siro is indicative of broader, destructive forces
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Who’s really on show at Crufts, the owners or the dogs?
Around 18,600 dogs passed through the NEC last weekend
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Journalism’s appetite for doom
Also: hunting for spies in north London, and our erosion of the Royal Navy
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AI is the perfect blend of insight and bullshit
Also this week: rainy Irish summers and too much sport on TV
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Letter of the week: The charm offensive
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine
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Kharg Island, the key to Iran’s fate
If the war is about oil, why hasn’t the president targeted Iran’s most important facility?
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The Strait of Hormuz: Iran’s oil weapon
The West is in a dependent relationship with Middle Eastern oil
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Make porn expensive again
The social consequences of pornography are becoming too nasty to ignore
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Don’t let Britain decline
The Fourth Great Disruption is here
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John Healey: Labour needs the “broadest group” in government
The Defence Secretary on Iran and leadership ambitions
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The special relationship is broken
In Trump’s era, the historic bond between the US and the UK counts for nothing
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The rise of British Muslims
What do two politicians’ memoirs reveal about the changing fortunes of British Muslims in public life?
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Asako Yuzuki’s acquired taste
Butter author Asako Yuzuki’s latest novel offers clues about what is behind the vogue for Japanese fiction
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Alice Coltrane’s transcendent score
A biography of the spiritual jazz musician reveals the tension between her devotion to John and to a higher…
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Melvyn Bragg’s class act
Was his success “social mobility”, or just good luck?
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How academics ruined Shakespeare
It is time to retrieve the playwright we thought we knew – the man who asks universal questions –…
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The NS Poem: A dream in two parts
A new poem by Janet Murray
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Louis Theroux stares down the manosphere
Can Britain’s frowning documentarian defeat – or even comprehend – the new masculine underground?
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The perils of adapting Kazuo Ishiguro
A new adaptation of the Nobel-winning writer’s first novel is too faithful to the book – and to its…
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Broken Glass review: Jordan Fein’s slick directing saves Arthur Miller’s difficult play
A moving revival at the Young Vic emphasises the paralysing feeling of watching horror unfold abroad
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ChatGPT – what should I drink with dinner?
AI doesn’t look set to replace the sommeliers anytime soon
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Beware: Reform UK wants to join you in your bedroom
The right is coming for dating apps
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Power comes and goes – I never seem to have it for long
What with my ex-MP and the internet, I feel connected again
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Beer and sandwiches: At the Black Bull Inn in Sedbergh
This column is our weekly pub review, written by pintsmen, women and children across the nation. Suggestions to letters@newstatesman.co.uk
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From the archive: Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s measure of constraint
July 1974: Claire Tomalin on the publication of a newly discovered diary by the poet
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