In Sanna Marin too hot for politics?
Her politics were unremarkable; what interested the global media was her face
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In this week’s issue
What Keir won’t hear
Fear is driving emotion in Britain
And without any intellectual energy, all that remains is a conservative instinct to hunker down and protect
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Pussy Riot’s Masha Alyokhina: “Putin will fuck you up”
The group’s founding member on standing up to Putin and life in exile
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If Putin wins, all this will have been in vain
But they see no alternative to fighting on
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Letter of the week: Endless prevarication
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine
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Back-bench MPs issue a Keirless whisper
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster
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Zack Polanski will be the most powerful man on the left
And Your Party only have themselves to blame
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Is Donald Trump losing interest in US politics?
The president is more concerned with basking in power than fighting the Democrats
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Prison sex stories are a sign of our corrupting state
Rogue officers provide tabloid titillation. But they hint at wider failings
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Labour could win the culture war over bookies
The vision of old boys thumbing the Racing Post and chatting over cups of tea is a lost one
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Does Keir Starmer realise how much trouble he’s in?
The Prime Minister is facing a crisis of contempt among his own MPs
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Zohran Mamdani will never be alone
New York’s mayor-elect will have to contend with the city’s billionaire class and a hostile president
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The BBC’s darkest hour
The next director general will be walking into an impossible job – and a political firefight
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How to fix the internet: break the oligarchy
Two new books trace the decline of the global online public square – and its replacement by a machine…
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The NS Poem: marsh fever
A new poem by Rebecca Ferrier
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Life lessons from Beijing’s courier grind
In I Deliver Parcels in Beijing, Hu Anyan reflects on the ways work divides and controls both our lives…
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Margaret Atwood is nobody’s handmaid
The Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts reveals a writer who, despite her success, can’t let go of…
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Cameron Crowe’s endless adolescence
In his memoir The Uncool, the rock-critic-turned-filmmaker explores his lifelong fascination with the American teen experience
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Joseph Wright of Derby and the mysteries of the Enlightenment
Capturing the age of scientific discovery, the painter also explored its unknowns
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It ain’t easy being George Clooney
In Jay Kelly, the Hollywood smoothie plays an actor very much like himself, albeit longing for a second chance…
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David Olusoga’s empire state of mind
Have the history wars of the past decade finally ended?
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Othello is missing the tragedy
Tom Morris’s production starring David Harewood makes the audience side with the wrong character
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Around the world in 50 Irish pubs
Combine a bar, a microwave, a patronising invocation of “craic” and an Irish-sounding name, and you have a thriving…
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Let’s hear it for the think tank nerds
New political ideas have to come from somewhere
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Behold: I am the coolest dad alive
There comes a day when a father must accept a lift on a Royal Enfield Interceptor 650 from one…
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My year-long quest to find London’s best nightclub
The capital’s club scene refuses to be neatly defined
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A Budget ten billion off course
March 1981: Geoffrey Howe launches the Thatcher governments spend-cutting, tax-raising Budget to widespread contempt
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