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Hoard is a daringly original British film
The New Statesman· 3 days agoHoard, which received a standing ovation at the 2023 Venice Film Festival, was originally conceived as a suicide note. Its writer and director, Luna...
Keir Starmer’s real mission: to overhaul how government works
The New Statesman· 3 days agoRarely has the gap between Westminster politics and normal voters seemed bigger. In the Commons,...
Gaza and the new digital divide
The New Statesman· 3 days agoIn late-1970s West Germany, the subject of my student-day outrage was US support for Latin American dictatorships. The media was the most important...
PMQs review: Sunak and Starmer need to grow up
The New Statesman· 3 days agoAfter Natalie Elphicke’s shock defection last week, there has been fevered speculation (some, if we’re honest, far from serious) about whether a third...
Subscriber of the week: Katy Gordon
The New Statesman· 3 days agoPlease email zuzanna.lachendro@newstatesman.co.uk if you would like to be featured.
How Take That helped me embrace middle age
The New Statesman· 3 days agoMy recognition of this came in the early hours of Sunday morning, in Manchester, as my girlfriends and I sipped a very-much-not-needed gin and tonic....
Will Keir Starmer’s agreement with the unions last?
The New Statesman· 3 days agoLabour is sticking by the New Deal for Working People for one big reason.
In defence of the King Charles portrait
The New Statesman· 3 days agoWhen Lucian Freud convinced the late Queen Elizabeth II to sit for a portrait in 2000, her reaction to the final piece, after 18 months of meetings with...
HMRC's hold music has become our unofficial national anthem
The New Statesman· 3 days agoHopefully this is the most depressing statistic you will read today: in 2022-23, people in the UK...
Going head-to-head with Lisa Nandy over Gaza
The New Statesman· 3 days agoRees-Mogg sparked a diplomatic incident by pointing out that the concentration camps used by the British Army in the Boer War, in which tens of thousands...
