Mark Gatiss’s ode to murder mysteries
In the twee world of Bookish, a new crime drama set in post war London, being well read is the…
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Keir Starmer’s credit arrears
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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The NS Poem: Stay for the Sign
A new poem by Joshua Blackman.
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As we watch Gaza, we are all witnesses to history
Will we ever find the words to describe what is happening?
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Katie Lam: “Margaret Thatcher left power before I was born”
The Tory MP – and one to watch, according to Conservative colleagues – on why her party must move on.
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Grief has changed me
When my father was alive, all I could see were our differences. Now I see him in me all the…
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This England: Feather Asbo-er
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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Thought experiment 14: The box that can change the past
Newcomb’s Box is a paradox that divides opinion – and casts doubt on our usual understanding of cause and effect.
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From Lore Segal to Jimi Famurewa: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring The Manifesto House by Owen Hopkins and Water in the Desert, Fire in the Night by Gethan Dick.
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Far-right memes are poisoning British politics
Westminster ignores the ugly side of social media at its peril.
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Doctors are striking over the shambles that’s been made of their careers
During my three decades of service in the NHS, my profession has been denigrated and devalued.
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Art in the wreckage of Gaza
Does satire ever belong in a war-zone?
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Evita for the West End masses
While Rachel Zegler sings “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina” to a crowd outside the Palladium, the audience inside may ponder…
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Adieu, Marylebone Waitrose…
Goodbye, for now, to a place that has played a formative role in my life – and this column.
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Potted histories
When lives are in flux, house plants are a source of constancy and calm.
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From the archive: The UN’s Rwanda failure
July 1994: The New Statesman calls for change after the Rwandan genocide.
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Superman’s new mission: to make the world “a bit nicer”
Might Lex Luthor be Elon Musk? Could Boravia be Russia? Or is it Israel? The latest DC superhero reboot isn’t…
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Shark! Celebrity Infested Waters is TV without bite
ITV’s bid to combine marine conservation and entertainment is a slender concept stretched thinner with each episode.
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What teenagers can teach us about love
Talking to young people aged 11 to 14 about matters of the heart, I heard a lifetime’s worth of romantic…
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Who is an acceptable migrant?
Those arriving in Britain are not so easily divided into categories of “deserving” and “undeserving”.
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