Harold Wilson has a lesson for Keir Starmer
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The new world war
Pete Hegseth’s war of annihilation
Say what you like about Phillip Schofield, we’re yet to see him advocate for war crimes
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The world according to violinists
Also this week: teaching my children to drive, and a reptile’s rude awakening
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Do British people want to be cowboys?
At London’s Country to Country festival, the Anglo-Americana dream was realised
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There’s another cost-of-living crisis on the way
Plus: Britain’s great unsung city, and Harold Wilson’s secret sauce
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Letter of the week: England can’t save herself
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine
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Keir Starmer is struggling to keep his New Year’s resolution
The Iran war is devastating his cost of living strategy
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Tucker Carlson vs Donald Trump
The war in the Middle East is smashing the Maga coalition apart
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Private school fee panics are right-wing hysteria
Middle-class parents were priced out of private education long before the Labour government
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The new world war
Why the battle for Iran and Ukraine is coming for us all
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The battle for the Strait of Hormuz
Iran has discovered a new weapon, much more powerful than its nuclear programme
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Thomas Heatherwick and architecture’s culture war
Britain’s most divisive designer on Labour’s lack of “cultural confidence”, housebuilding, and what makes a beautiful building.
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The Rasputin legend
He dazzled the tsar and tsarina with his virile charisma. But, as Antony Beevor shows, he also inspired their…
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The dark shadow of Palestinian exile
Hannah Lillith Assadi’s latest novel, Paradiso 17, draws on her father’s displacement
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Coppola, Lucas, Spielberg and the death of the Hollywood dream
In the 1970s, an ingenious trio of film auteurs conquered Hollywood. But is the renaissance now over?
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We must love WH Auden or die
The poet was a restless spirit, haunted by his own Englishness
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Surviving forced labour in wartime Berlin
Ian Buruma’s account of his father’s years in a German factory accounts department is moving but limited in scope
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In the moment, at night, with Keith Jarrett
The jazz pianist’s unique style has often conjured career-defining beauty out of serious setbacks
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La Grazia is Paolo Sorrentino’s best film in years
The lauded Italian director’s latest film poignantly explores the ethical dilemmas of power
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The Ladies of London need our help
We cannot let the upper classes live like such lowlife
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Epstein’s emotional support network
Has Me Too gone too far? Moira Donegan’s experience shows that it never went far enough
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Noma and the tyranny of angry chefs
Was René Redzepi born like this or did the kitchen make him this way?
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Young people are happier in sub-Saharan Africa than in the wealthy West
Globally, the younger the age of first smartphone use, the worse young people’s mental well-being
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I have avoided going to the dentist for as long as possible
Alas, my time has come
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Beer and sandwiches: The French House in Soho
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: Russia’s dark horse at the finish line
February 2000: Vladimir Putin approaches power
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