A perilous age
From Israel and Iran to Ukraine and Russia, nations across the globe are engaged in existential battles.
ByThe Magazine
In this week’s issue
Warlord
Will Iran surrender?
Israel’s assault has transformed the balance of power in the Middle East.
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Politicians are what they eat
Their food choices tell us more than speeches and sound bites ever could.
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Jo Cox and the privilege of office
Also this week: Putting differences aside, and progress on assisted dying.
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Lords seek mercy
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Letter of the week: The Chancellor of tomorrow
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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Labour must show it can build a state fit for purpose
Fixating on the Reform threat won’t fix our British malaise.
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Is Trump the last neoconservative?
Maga was meant to fix America. But Israel’s war risks dragging it back into the Middle East.
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Will Iran inflict oil inflation on the West?
The country has little to lose by restricting shipping and triggering an energy price shock.
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Keir Starmer’s grooming gang cowardice
Once again, the Prime Minister is hiding behind officialdom instead of leading.
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Neoconservatism’s dangerous revival
Europe has a lot to lose by backing Israel now.
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Mrs Brown’s Boys and the BBC’s Farage problem
The broadcaster’s attempts to win back trust among Reform supporters is good for democracy.
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Dominic Cummings: oracle of the new British berserk
The political visions of Westminster’s most influential intellectual are wracked by elemental forces.
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Living by the sword
The history that shapes Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Inside the mind of Benjamin Netanyahu
As the Israeli prime minister’s bodyguard, I saw him transform into the gangster he is today.
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The cosplay dictator
Trump has learned dangerous lessons from other strongmen.
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Princess Diana’s kinder Britain
A new biography plays down the royal’s cultural impact – but she softened the hard edges of the Thatcher era.
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The search for queer cinema
Ryan Gilbey’s unconventional memoir It Used to Be Witches is wrapped in the film critic’s study of LGBTQ+ movie-making.
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From Barbara Demick to Emily Kasriel: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring The Buried City by Gabriel Zuchtriegel and Poor Ghost! by Gabriel Flynn.
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Brian Cox: “Starmer? I just can’t take the man!”
The actor on being a “white dinosaur”, his problem with humanity, and why he wouldn’t play Trump.
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The savagery of Alexander McQueen
The designer saw the skull beneath the skin of a Britain slipping into paranoia and distrust.
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Edward Burra’s tour of the 20th century
The English painter’s relish for subcultures took him across genres and continents.
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Martha Wainwright, in her own right
The musician’s career has been helped and hampered by her famous name – and her live shows embody her…
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A samurai lost in the wilderness
John Maclean’s revenge thriller Tornado showcases for Scotland’s beautiful landscape, but the film has little to say.
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Outrageous: a Mitfords rehash too many
A TV retelling of the famous sisters’ lives is cartoony, exaggerated and too determined to be modern and droll.
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Thom Yorke’s Hamlet is brilliantly rendered sacrilege
In an inventive theatrical mash-up, Radiohead’s album Hail to the Thief perfectly articulates the prince’s torment.
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My neglected garden is as pleasing as it’s ever been
Soft grass, roses and tangling clematis entwine, all in a year when I’ve never done less gardening.
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Thought experiment 12: The Teletransporter
What links Star Trek’s Enterprise and the Ship of Theseus from Greek mythology? A question of continuous personal identity…
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Hangovers I have known
The barman who made our pre-dinner Martinis was good at his job, and this may be where our problems…
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If literature is dead, at least the funeral is well attended
And Dostoevsky is here too!
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My dad was that thing every child wishes their parents could be: cool
He did not want emotional, protracted goodbyes, and so we did not say any.
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This England: From the carvery
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: The revolution turns to repression
August 1979: Six months after the Iranian Revolution, Fred Halliday surveys the Islamic Republic.
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