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A staggering first-round victory for Marine Le Pen
The New Statesman· 4 days agoEmmanuel Macron's political gamble has backfired.
James Corden’s comedy of menace
The New Statesman· 6 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.
Keir Starmer’s hard road ahead
The New Statesman· 2 days agoOne thing we can all agree on: Keir Starmer’s Labour government has been an unmitigated disaster. Bloody Labour, stodgy betrayers – they have already...
Reform could haunt a Labour government
The New Statesman· 5 days agoThe Reform manifesto is a Trumpian document for a British electorate. Nigel Farage (interviewed in this week’s New Statesman) accepts the Republican...
Francis Bacon’s vile bodies
The New Statesman· 3 days agoIs Francis Bacon the most overrated painter of the 20th century? No, surely that dubious accolade must go to Lucian Freud, the artistic Tweedledum to...
The People's Republic of Liverpool Walton
The New Statesman· 3 days agoIn 2018, the Russian presidential election produced an entirely expected victory for the incumbent Vladimir Putin, who won 78 per cent of the vote. In...
The young prole rebels of Dexys Midnight Runners
The New Statesman· 2 days 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...
On the edge of chaos
The New Statesman· 2 days agoAmerican liberals are howling in indignation over the Supreme Court’s decision to extend immunity to the former president Donald Trump for his alleged...
Democracy begins with us
The New Statesman· 2 days agoAs a journalist in authoritarian China, I learned the value of community. As a parliamentary candidate in the UK, I am determined to preserve it.
From Neil Jordan to Lara Maiklem: new books reviewed in short
The New Statesman· 2 days agoMichael Collins – the sprawling biopic about the Irish revolutionary hero – is perhaps the director...
