Rachel Reeves is pretending everything is absolutely fine
This Spring Statement didn’t take account of an inconvenient event: the outbreak of war
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In this week’s issue
Trump’s global terror
Starmer is no Churchill, but Trump is no FDR
Britain is caught in the storm of the special relationship
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How we celebrated Khamenei’s death
My friends had imagined the moment for years
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In search of Welsh nationalism
Nobody else can sing like this
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Regime change is bloody and hideous
To the Russian ambassador’s residence in Kensington Park Gardens to talk to Andrei Kelin about the war in Ukraine…
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Letter of the week: Phillipson’s final hurdle
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine
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Who is Keir Starmer without Morgan McSweeney?
On Iran and on Europe, he is beginning to show us
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What the war in Iran means for China and Russia
China’s leadership will not welcome the prospect of a global oil shock
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America and Israel might be about to break up
Donald Trump has unleashed forces he’s no longer interested in controlling
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Politicians are fighting for a working class that no longer exists
Hannah Spencer’s election has sparked a new fury of class-spotting
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Political Islam won’t die with the ayatollah
Those willing Iran’s collapse miss the contemporary genius of its founding ideology
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Why Iran is collapsing
Peace is the least likely future
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Fiona Hill: We are heading into absolute chaos and brutal slaughter
The former Donald Trump adviser on an escalating crisis and the prospect of world war
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The fall of Ayatollah Khamenei
He became the gravedigger of the revolution that he helped lead
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We cannot afford another failed government
After Gorton and Denton it is time for our leaders to lead
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Britain has an America problem
Our old ally has grown unreliable. We must lessen our dependence
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Michael Pollan’s hunt for consciousness
We have it. Plants have it. Machines may soon have it. Why do they all need one?
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Gisèle Pelicot is not your hero
In her new memoir, Pelicot rejects the pedestal she has been put on
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The breaking of nation-states
Utopian visions of an internationalist future ring hollow in dystopian times
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Time-travelling angels in the Blitz
Francis Spufford’s new novel Nonesuch combines WW2 and wizards
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It’s hard being Tracey Emin
A major retrospective at the Tate Modern shows how the artist became the queen of the confessional – but…
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The very British brutality of Kind Hearts and Coronets
The 1949 inspiration for How to Make a Killing remains a tantalising fantasy of class war
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Sound of Falling is an intricate ghost story about trauma across time
In this extraordinary film, four girls confront death through the decades
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Jonathan Ross’s cruel Britannia
“Handcuffed” has revived the nastiest side of reality TV
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Gorillaz’s strange, hybrid formula is still where Damon Albarn feels at home
It takes balls to start your record with a five-minute instrumental played on a bamboo flute
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Veganism has lost its cool
Big vendors are dropping their plant-based options. I can’t possibly think why
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How we respond to medicine shapes how medicine responds to us
Our medical minds are established in our formative years
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An invitation to eat curry with 35 law professors. Is this a joke?
The prof said this could provide material
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Beer and sandwiches: At the Redhouse in Newcastle
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: Life without Diana
October 1997: How will we remember her?
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