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Joe Biden's last debate
The New Statesman· 6 days agoTwo things are clear after watching last night’s debate: Donald Trump should not be the next American president – and nor should Joe Biden. For months...
Why are England football fans so entitled?
The New Statesman· 3 days agoWhy did England get booed so much and so often during those early Euro games? Family and relations of the players, even the lesser-known figures confined...
Why therapy apps are all talk
The New Statesman· 7 days agoIt might come down to the approach your therapist takes, the rigour with which they interrogate your statements, the space they provide for you to feel...
As anti-Semitism surges, tolerance resurfaces at unexpected moments
The New Statesman· 7 days agoOnly here the binned item was a Jewish Star of David and the crudely lettered slogan beneath read...
Yorgos Lanthimos’s Kinds of Kindness is grotesque
The New Statesman· 6 days agoThree times is enemy action, says Auric Goldfinger. By this measure, Kinds of Kindness is determinedly hostile. Yorgos Lanthimos’s follow-up to Poor...
Half The Globe Is Voting In 2024 - 80% Want Climate Action, New UN Study
Forbes· 4 days agoAbout 50% of the world’s population – literally billions of people – are voting in 2024, with...
Keir Starmer is the consummate late bloomer
The New Statesman· 7 days agoTony Blair and David Cameron were just 43 when they won. At the time, Cameron was the youngest prime minister since 1812, before he was undertaken by...
Labour’s missions are no substitute for ideology
The New Statesman· 3 days agoOne of the most insistent refrains in Keir Starmer’s campaigning rhetoric has been that he represents a constructive break with a disordered past....
Is the SNP prepared to change again?
The New Statesman· 6 days agoWith a week to go, if I were a betting man – which, unlike the entire political establishment, it seems, I’m not – I’d go for something like this:...
Why Roger Deakin’s Waterlog will change your life
The New Statesman· 7 days agoThe book was a bestseller upon release, and Deakin – who died in 2006, at 63, from a brain tumour – was respected as an environmentalist, documentary...