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Can a feuding French left keep out the far right?
The New Statesman· 2 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....
Yorgos Lanthimos’s Kinds of Kindness is grotesque
The New Statesman· 3 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...
Why therapy apps are all talk
The New Statesman· 4 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...
Joe Biden's last debate
The New Statesman· 3 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...
Locals fuming about ‘death trap’ on Wick’s Service Bridge
John O Groat Journal· 1 day agoA local man had to stop his car on the Service Bridge in Wick to avoid a major obstruction he thinks...
The Policy Ask with Paul McNamee: "The prospect of Rachel Reeves becoming the first female...
The New Statesman· 3 days agoPaul McNamee is the director of Labour Climate and Environment Forum. This has included advising on...
James Corden’s comedy of menace
The New Statesman· 2 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.
Welcome to the realm of the thought experiment
The New Statesman· 4 days agoWhat do a hurtling trolley, a shallow pond and a famous violinist all have in common?
The risk of deepfakes deciding elections is real
The New Statesman· 2 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...
Biden's performance should make us grateful for the Deep State
The New Statesman· 2 days agoEven if it’s been on autopilot, America has continued to function.