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It is hard to believe that Rachel Cooke has gone. I am not the only New Statesman reader who told themselves they turned ...

roy Parrott’s goal at the death of the World Cup Qualifier against Hungary was enough on its own. Back from London for the ...

This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain – has run in the ...

Studies have repeatedly confirmed that, under laboratory conditions at least, supersize portions result in our eating around a third more calories than if the food had been served in more modest ...

The long run-up to the Budget should have been a blessing, offering Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves respite from their usual ...

The conclusion might seem to be: for all his faults, stick with Starmer. If you want to avoid a full-blown political collapse ...

Aatami, marvellously wrinkled and leathery, is played by Jorma Tommila, who was 63 in the first film and is, incidently, ...

In one corner we have Olivia Nuzzi, 32: a journalist with an identity built on the twin pillars of elite access and great ...

Shabana Mahmood’s asylum reforms have jolted Westminster, and some see them as evidence that the right now firmly owns ...

his was a holding-pattern PMQs. After last week’s fireworks in the wake of the bizarre briefings put out by No 10 regarding ...

Returning again to Clausewitz, the base of his theory is that wars are usually fought for political, not military, goals. And they are driven not so much by physical power, but mostly by ideology.