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Kemi Badenoch is the early front-runner for the Tory leadership
The New Statesman· 4 days agoKemi Badenoch was always walking a narrow path. The former business and trade secretary, now shadow...
Roman Krznaric Q&A: “We spend too much time looking up to individuals”
The New Statesman· 4 days agoThe philosopher on tennis history, disruptive social action, and questions of mortality while taking...
Subscriber of the week: Bob Parks
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Dreams of tennis and the best job in the world
The New Statesman· 4 days agoThere I watched Jack Draper, the new British men’s number one with the formidable lefty serve, in action against Cameron Norrie, until recently the...
Discovering the real Modest Mussorgsky
The New Statesman· 4 days agoIn late 1877, at the height of his fame, Tchaikovsky was asked in a letter from his patroness, Nadezhda von Meck, what he thought of a group of largely...
Dale Vince: shifting to renewables “needs no public money”
The New Statesman· 4 days agoWhen the general election campaign began, Dale Vince got busy. The day after the 4 July date was...
You shouldn’t tell people how you voted – but I will…
The New Statesman· 4 days agoThe problem is that I was going to have to explain to the organisers why I was going to have to...
This England: McMarriage
The New Statesman· 4 days agoThis column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain – has run in the New Statesman since 1934.
The immersive sounds of the Polish wilderness
The New Statesman· 4 days agoOn long walks with her grandfather along the Baltic coast near her hometown of Gdańsk, she began recording the sounds made by birds, frogs and any other...
The Despicable Me phenomenon
The New Statesman· 4 days agoThere have been six feature films since the first arrived in 2010, including two prequels, Minions of 2015 and Minions: The Rise of Gru of 2022: the...