The New Statesman

02/02/2025

The Microsoft and Huawei founders have competing visions of technological dominance. Which will endure?

Will Dunn reviews Source Code: My Beginnings by Bill Gates and House of Huawei: Inside the Secret World of China’s Most Powerful Company by Eva Dou. Follow the link in our bio

Illustration by Tim McDonagh

02/02/2025

The Premier League must give more to grassroots clubs:

📔 Katy Shaw in this week’s diary

Also this week: Rachel Reeves as Elmer Fudd, a chocolate windfall, and why England’s landmarks are crumbling.

02/02/2025

"I used to dream of bagging a musician. Fantasy and reality look very different."

🤦 Pippa Bailey in Deleted Scenes

I find plectrums all over the house, and have to move at least one instrument to get into my wardrobe.

01/02/2025

The singer who embodied the Swinging Sixties in her youth gained a power in her later years that suited her better.

Jude Rogers remembers the real Marianne Faithfull at the link in our bio.

Photo by JP Masclet / Camera Press

01/02/2025

The brutal world of the Brothers Grimm

The German brothers’ fairy tales, in which moral laws are suspended and violence abounds, were no stranger than the progressive fantasies that replaced them.

By John Gray

The German brothers’ fairy tales, in which moral laws are suspended and violence abounds, were no stranger than the progressive fantasies that replaced them.

01/02/2025

"The debate around DEI long ago floated free of a brief consensus and entered the gale of the cultural wars."

The weekend essay: How DEI cleaves American politics, by Freddie Hayward:

Why has Diversity, Equity and Inclusion become Donald Trump’s favourite political weapon?

01/02/2025

Inside the psychedelic elite:

Meet the campaigners trying to legalise class-A drugs – a network stretching to the top of the US government.

By Ed Prideaux

Meet the campaigners trying to legalise class-A drugs – a network stretching to the top of the US government.

01/02/2025

John McDonnell on where Rachel Reeves is going wrong

The veteran socialist and former shadow chancellor speaks out from political exile.

🗣️ Andrew Marr meets John McDonnell

The veteran socialist and former shadow chancellor speaks out from political exile.

31/01/2025

The Fire Inside subverts the inspirational sports drama movie:

This biopic of the 17-year-old Olympic gold medal-winning boxer Claressa Shields explores not just the victory, but the aftermath.

🍿 Simran Hans reviews The Fire Inside

This biopic of the 17-year-old Olympic gold medal-winning boxer Claressa Shields shows the aftermath, as well as the victory.

31/01/2025

🍿 Mohammad Rasoulof’s The Seed of The Sacred Fig review: an act of resistance

The director risks imprisonment with this film, which reveals the brutality of tyranny in Iran following the 2022 Women, Life, Freedom protests.

By David Sexton

The director risks imprisonment with this film, which reveals the brutality of tyranny in Iran following the 2022 Women, Life, Freedom protests.

31/01/2025

🎸 Jude Rogers on Marianne Faithfull

The singer who embodied the Swinging Sixties in her youth gained a power in her later years that suited her better.

"The edge in Faithfull’s talent was there from the start."

The singer who embodied the Swinging Sixties in her youth gained a power in her later years that suited her better.

31/01/2025

Which one was it?

This week’s NS cartoon by

31/01/2025

Choose your fighter! Bill Gates vs Ren Zhengfei:

These two men would achieve something historic. Theirs would be a new kind of power, desired and feared by politicians, and an emblem of the new geopolitical order.

📖 Will Dunn on billionaires

The Microsoft and Huawei founders have competing visions of technological dominance. Which will endure?

31/01/2025

Why the Brexit debate will never die, by Will Dunn

Was it ever possible for the promised results to be delivered?

Was it ever possible for the promised results to be delivered?

31/01/2025

Labour's Heathrow and Oxbridge Silicon Valley plans have been accused of being too "South East-centric" - Rachel Cunliffe

31/01/2025

Can the West guarantee Ukraine’s security?

Amid talk of “peacekeepers” and security alliances, it’s not yet clear what Europe can do to deter Russia.

By Lawrence Freedman

Amid talk of “peacekeepers” and security alliances, it’s not yet clear what Europe can do to deter Russia.

31/01/2025

“If the steelworks go, then Scunthorpe will go.”

Megan Kenyon Scunthorpe, a town which owes its existence to the steel industry - an industry whose future is hanging in the balance.

Labour’s climate push risks leaving Scunthorpe behind.

31/01/2025

🔴 This week’s New Statesman leader: closing Britain’s privilege gap

The case for ending the effective state subsidy of private schools is overwhelming.

The case for ending the effective state subsidy of private schools is overwhelming.