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Cat Bohannon Q&A: “We can actually make the world a bit better”
The New Statesman· 6 days agoThe academic and author on Jaws, Artemisia Gentileschi, and the fertility culture wars.
Is this election beyond satire?
The New Statesman· 7 days agoWith the Tories writing their own punchlines, the jokes in Michael Spicer: No Room are all too plausible.
The young prole rebels of Dexys Midnight Runners
The New Statesman· 1 day agoOne starts this book at the back, like a Japanese novel, because the author has tracked down all 24 living members of Dexys Midnight Runners, leaving...
James Corden’s comedy of menace
The New Statesman· 5 days agoJoe Penhall’s new play The Constituent, starring Corden and Anna Maxwell Martin, is a funny, disturbing vision of public service and private despair.
Rishi Sunak’s aggressive strategy is his best hope
The New Statesman· 6 days agoThe Prime Minister’s negative attacks are desperate but he has no better option.
Why therapy apps are all talk
The New Statesman· 6 days agoPeople can pay monthly or one-off rates to have access to thousands of online therapists via a single digital platform. BetterHelp has seen a spike in...
Reform candidates are sinister
The New Statesman· 1 day agoBritain may be broken, as Nigel Farage’s campaign declares. If it were the case of “one or two slip[ping] through the net that shouldn’t have done” – as...
Biden’s only choice
The New Statesman· 1 day agoWhen Trump declared that Democrats were in favour of “after-birth” abortions, for instance, which is to say they want to kill newborn babies, Biden was...
The risk of deepfakes deciding elections is real
The New Statesman· 5 days agoEarlier this year I realised, to my profound disappointment, that I hadn’t really been listening to Arnold Schwarzenegger. For a week I listened to a...
Can a feuding French left keep out the far right?
The New Statesman· 4 days agoAhead of the first round of voting in the legislative elections this Sunday, the French left has united for only the second time in its recent history....
