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Amnesty International has this week announced it will strip Alexei Navalny, the prominent opposition figure in Russia, of his status as a “prisoner...
Towards the end of his Nobel lecture, delivered in Stockholm in December 2017, Kazuo Ishiguro advised that we should relax our definitions of...
The voters Keir Starmer needs to hold onto aren’t so different from the voters he needs to win over. That’s the story of our new poll of...
In a unanimous verdict, the Supreme Court has ruled that the safety of the British people as a whole takes priority over Shamima Begum’s right...
Reports from Westminster insiders indicate Rishi Sunak may signal tax rises in his Budget on 3 March. This could include an increase in...
Private Eye, the satirical fortnightly magazine edited by Ian Hislop, could easily have been plunged into crisis when the UK entered its first...
The voters Keir Starmer needs to hold on to aren’t so different from the voters he needs to win over. That’s the story of our new poll of...
For five million people in the UK, Uber is a fact of life. Whether it has kept you in lockdown takeaways through the long winter months, or...
Just as Britain’s growing army of beleaguered would-be homeowners was beginning to lose hope, Rishi Sunak rides to the rescue. In next week’s...
At long last, there he was. After twice previously cancelling his appearance, Alex Salmond appeared on Friday afternoon (26 February) before the...
A court ruling in India has delivered an urgent message this week – not just for their country’s own government, but for the world: “In my...
It's ten years since the self-immolation of Tunisian street-seller Mohamed Bouazizi sparked an uprising against oppressive regimes that spread...
Apart from my husband and kids, who hardly count at this stage, the people I see most often are the two guys who work at the nearest corner shop...
Before it was the global centre of finance or home to the Statue of Liberty, New York was the oyster capital of the world. Blue Point oysters,...
The New Statesman has launched this page to track case rates and other key Covid-19 data on a local authority level across Britain. It will be...
Three years ago, spinal surgeon Hilali Noordeen’s eldest son told his father he was considering becoming a doctor. Rather than sitting his...
When I logged on to the fitness app Strava three weeks into the current lockdown, I was shocked to see that one of my friends had clearly been...
The European Research Group is set to call for the Northern Ireland Protocol to be scrapped entirely, while every single major unionist party in...
The inquiry into the Scottish government’s handling of allegations of sexual harassment against Alex Salmond will not hear evidence from the...
The Salmond affair has shown Scotland at its worst: a furtive, nervous, ankle-biter of a nation with an over-mighty government and an ineffective...
A winter storm hit the US on 13 February, leaving millions of homes and businesses in Texas without power and heat. Frozen and burst pipes led to...
In Texas this month, nature struck capitalism with such force that it created a modern parable: the parable of the people who did not want a...
From time to time my attempts to explain to gardeners the technology and science of their hobby have been thwarted by horticulture’s language; a...
Taiwan’s successful handling of the Covid-19 pandemic is a model for the world,” announced the outgoing US ambassador to the United Nations,...
It is highly disconcerting, for those of us who don’t like him, that the political victor of the pandemic will be Boris Johnson. Though the...
Covid is forcing parliament to change how it operates, but preparations were discreetly made for a traditional show of respect should Philip...
My friend owns a restaurant that’s been closed for ages because of Covid. He’s currently getting a rent reduction from his kindly landlord, but...
Kay had been on the verge of orgasm when she was struck by a sudden headache. It was so severe she’d had no choice but to call an instant halt,...
On 1 February the military seized power in Myanmar (also known as Burma) from the elected government of the National League for Democracy (NLD)...
In his 1651 masterpiece, Leviathan, the philosopher Thomas Hobbes insisted that civil war is always the worst thing that can happen in politics. To...
On 16 February, after playing in the defeat in the second Test at Chennai, Moeen Ali flew home from the England cricket team’s tour of India. His...
L’Angleterre”, the great French political scientist André Siegfried was wont to say in beginning his Sorbonne lectures on the British Isles,...
It’s long past midnight and a white, American woman from Arkansas is guiding me around her pantry via YouTube. The first time my evening wound up...
A global effort to vaccinate people against Covid-19 is underway - with much of Europe tightening restrictions as a second wave of the virus has...
The Louisa Jordan Nightingale hospital sits on the banks of the River Clyde in Glasgow, housed in the hangar-like exhibition centre. I had watched...
In December 2012, a website appeared seemingly advertising a new line of lingerie in the Victoria’s Secret “Pink” collection. The site,...
When Billie Holiday performed “Strange Fruit”, the lament about lynching with which she was closely associated from 1939 onwards, she always did...
One of the things that has been keeping me going, as a kind of substitute for socialising, is Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg’s handy little platform...
As a music critic, you spend a lot of time trying to find stuff to say about albums you wouldn’t choose to listen to, and little time writing...
If Charli XCX’s “Vroom Vroom” is the sexiest electro-pop track about driving, Danny L Harle’s “Car Song”, a collaboration with MC Boing,...
In the course of her career, Winifred Knights reversed the traditional artistic trajectory. She had little trouble in becoming a painter and none...
Scott Alexander’s real name is now in the public domain, but I won’t be using it in this column. He worked hard to protect his privacy during...
For countries around the world, 2020 was a year of unprecedented disruption. The International Monetary Fund has estimated a global growth...
A miasma of tear gas hung over Cairo at the height of the battle for control of Tahrir Square. At night it drifted in through my open window a...
Britain has been in lockdown for the best part of a year, but in Downing Street the lockdown has never really been in place. That’s the complaint...
Boris Johnson has unveiled his roadmap for easing the lockdown in England – putting the country on course to be free of most restrictions by 21...
When Alistair Foot and Anthony Marriott wrote the play No Sex Please, We’re British in 1971, they probably didn’t expect it to become...
Boris Johnson has outlined his four-step plan to bring the UK out of lockdown. The Prime Minister announced pupils will return to schools on 8...
Concluding his magisterial six-part documentary series on modernism, The Shock of the New, the late art critic Robert Hughes wrote that,...
There is nothing new about the politics of the BBC. In 1958, the colourful Labour MP Tom Driberg examined the appointment of Hugh Carleton Greene (...
In the absence of vaccines, Covid-19 would force us to make the difficult choice between trying to live with the virus or trying to eliminate it....
In the early days of Amazon, staff at its Seattle headquarters would often head to a nearby restaurant called the Wing Dome. Over the years,...
Facebook’s fight with the Australian government has followed a familiar course. Struggling to compete with the tech giants in the realm of online...
A characteristic of those countries dealing effectively with the coronavirus pandemic is that many of them are islands. It is hardly a surprise...
The UK has experienced two defining immigration events since the Second World War: the 1948-1971 Windrush era and the EU’s post-1992 introduction...
Boris Johnson will today unveil a slow, month-by-month four-step path out of lockdown in England, and along with it the four tests that the UK...
A global effort to vaccinate people against Covid-19 is underway - with much of Europe tightening restrictions as a second wave of the virus has...
One of the unexpected by-products of the 2016 Brexit referendum was the birth of an enthusiastic pro-Europeanism, which all of a sudden went from...
The “March to Freedom” has begun. Boris Johnson has unveiled a cautious roadmap for lifting England’s lockdown over the coming months. But what...
How should we conceive the relationship between fiction and psychoanalytic thought? What is the largest area of overlap, or the most fruitful point...
The Prime Minister's biggest headache as he charts a course out of lockdown? His own backbenchers. The ever-increasing list of Conservative...
Boris Johnson’s biggest headache as he charts a course out of lockdown? His own backbenchers. The ever-increasing list of Conservative backbench...