John le Carré: The Secret Life
In the end, the great spy novelist remained an enigma even to himself.
December 12 2020 / Salt Publishing (republished New Statesman)
George Orwell: The Road to Revolution
Orwell wrote Animal Farm at a time of global crisis as a warning about oppressive state power. Its message is as relevant as ever, says the New Statesman editor in a new introduction to the seminal book.
December 4 2020 / Macmilln Publishers
James Hawes: The Shortest History of England
The long shadow of the Norman Conquest
December 2 2020 / New Statesman
Patrick Hutchinson: Grace Under Pressure
George Floyd, Black Lives Matter and Heroism
November 25 2020 / New Statesman
Boris Johnson and the Clercs
The fallen intellectuals
November 18 2020 / New Statesman
How the New Romantics Transformed British Culture
As Margaret Thatcher’s political revolution unfolded, a group of style-obsessed misfits brightened troubled times.
October 28 2020 / New Statesman
Neil Ferguson: The Covid Modeller
The so-called Professor Lockdown, a hate figure for the libertarian right, on epidemiology, saving lives during the coronavirus pandemic and his sudden resignation
July 30 2020 / New Statesman
The Great University funding crisis
Sub-prime degrees and elite overproduction
July 22 2020 / New Statesman
Political Football
Marcus Rashford, Raheem Sterling and the rise of the activist super-player
June 24 2020 / New Statesman
Why Boris Johnson is trapped
The prime minister stokes the flames of the culture wars
June 17 2020 / New Statesman
An English Elegy
A summer without cricket
June 6 2020 / New Statesman
The Tragedy of Tye Green Lodge
People are dying at the Essex care home
