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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A Question of Intent
Magic and divination in the age of AI
An event in London finds eerie common cause between computer scientists and tarot readers. Meanwhile, Nvidia conjures a market…
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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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Who loves the sun?
Also this week: Sweet summer reading and why we need immigrants.
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Keir Starmer’s credit arrears
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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MasterChef’s kitchen nightmares
Your weekly dose of news and gossip from journalism, broadcasting and beyond.
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Letter of the week: Anti-social housing policy
Write to [email protected] to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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Are Unite and Labour heading for divorce?
The union’s disaffiliation threat is real but its leader Sharon Graham fears the “personality cult” of a new left…
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A stable future for Gaza is a distant prospect
Israel’s former prime minister Ehud Olmert has accused his country’s leaders of planning a “concentration camp” on the Strip.
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No 10 is scrambling for a Silicon Valley payday
From the UK ambassador to the Business Secretary, British officials are in full damage-limitation mode over Trump’s tariffs.
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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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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…
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A question of intent
On Israel and Gaza.
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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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Samuel Pepys’s diary of a somebody
Kate Loveman’s history of a national treasure preserves Pepys’s charm while revealing a discomfiting historical world.
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The weirdness of a world at war
In her debut novel Vulture, the journalist Phoebe Greenwood makes an intrepid bid to satirise her craft through the…
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Xi Jinping’s daddy issues
The Chinese president’s concept of power was forged by the suffering of his revolutionary father, Xi Zhongxun.
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The NS Poem: Stay for the Sign
A new poem by Joshua Blackman.
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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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What’s wrong with Sarah Vine?
The columnist’s memoir promises an insider’s account of the Cameron years – but instead provides a study in overwhelming…
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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…
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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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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…
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Potted histories
When lives are in flux, house plants are a source of constancy and calm.
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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…
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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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Grief has changed me
When my father was alive, all I could see were our differences. Now I see him in me all…
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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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From the archive: The UN’s Rwanda failure
July 1994: The New Statesman calls for change after the Rwandan genocide.
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