The era of easy peace is over
With Houthi attacks, war in Gaza and Ukraine, and the return of Trump, the wider West must spend more…
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Trump’s Revenge
Letter of the week: The value of humanities
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Tories pray for electoral salvation. Will St Boris intercede?
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Inside NHS England’s faltering plan to replace the Tavistock
The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges has been called on to rescue the opening of two new NHS gender…
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How to reform the House of Lords
Also this week: finding peace in weekly Mass, and what Winston Churchill knew.
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How Kemi Badenoch became the Tory front-runner
Can she win the Conservative leadership by appealing to both the right and moderates?
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Tory divisions over Rwanda reflect the wider anti-migrant mood across Europe
As far-right parties surge on the continent, Britain’s staunch multiculturalism is starting to look a little lonely.
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The Democrats must forge a political centre based on class, not identity
The party urgently needs to reconnect with the needs of ordinary people in conservative and rural parts of the…
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The West’s rivals everywhere are exploiting its vulnerabilities
From Africa to Latin America, competing power blocs are gaining from liberal democracies’ stalled growth and lack of focus.
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From Windrush to the Post Office, I find a Britain losing its faith in fair play
At the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry I met Mark Kelly, who has lost everything he worked for.
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Donald Trump and the politics of retribution
After his emphatic victory in the Iowa Republican primary, the former president believes he is destined for a second…
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The 2010s: a decade of revolutionaries without a revolution
How the left was made and unmade.
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How Israel’s war spread to the Red Sea
Yemen’s Houthis are allies of Iran but not proxies. They believe they are carrying out the will of God.
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The triumph of King Charles
Robert Hardman’s obsequious biography pays court to a monarch who is enjoying his power over a deferential nation.
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The Wizard of the Kremlin takes us inside the mind of Putin’s spin-master
Giuliano da Empoli’s fictionalised portrait of Vladislav Surkov dramatises the birth of the post-truth world.
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József Debreczeni’s letter from the land of the dead
A rediscovered memoir from an Auschwitz survivor offers powerful lessons for our own reckonings with the Holocaust.
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From Colin Barrett to Hannah Ritchie: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Deterring Armageddon by Peter Apps and Missing Persons, or My Grandmother’s Secrets by Clair Wills.
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The Polish Revolution
Timothy Garton Ash’s account of the Solidarity movement shows how Poland has resisted Russian control, and led me to…
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Why make another Mean Girls?
The musical update of the popular high-school movie is entertaining, but bewildering.
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What on earth is LOL: Last One Laughing?
This game show, in which some comedians are stuck in a room together for six hours, seems to me…
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Radio 4’s Child puts us on the cusp of life
India Rakusen has created a delightful mosaic of trivia about babies and the earliest stages of human life.
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The paradoxical moods of Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark
Released 50 years ago, the singer’s commercial breakthrough is a masterwork of ambivalence.
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Herbs and flowers flourish in my hilltop garden, except where I want them
My lack of success growing mint and thyme is embarrassing, but I take solace in the plant world’s mysteries…
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Improve your finances with a New Year cash diet
Forget healthy eating and drinking this January – abstain from card and online spending instead.
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His quiet charisma bowled me over, and he became a friend for life
When we were young we orbited P-J the way the planets orbit the sun. And now he has gone.
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The Scala was a place with no boundaries, our teenage sanctuary
A film about the cult all-night cinema and a memoir by my friend take me back: how motivated we…
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This England: Tyne mouth
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain…
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Subscriber of the week: Verity Howorth
Please email zuzanna.lachendro@newstatesman.co.uk if you would like to be featured.
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Richard Hawley Q&A: “It’s sickening what this government gets away with”
The songwriter and musician on Gretsch guitars, the benefits of failure, and hailing from a long line of NHS…
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