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71-73 Carter Lane London EC4V 5EQ Tel 020 7936 6400 Subscription inquiries: Stephen Brasher sbrasher@ newstatesman.co.uk 0800 731 8496 Editor Jason Cowley Deputy Editor Helen Lewis Features Editor Xan Rice Culture Editor Tom Gatti Digital Editor Jasper Jackson Political Editor George Eaton Creative Editor Gerry Brakus Arts Editor Kate Mossman Assistant Editor Michael Prodger Special Correspondent Stephen Bush Contributing Editors Mehdi Hasan Laurie Penny Jemima Goldsmith Chris Deerin Head of Production Jessica Cargill Thompson Deputy Head of Production Yo Zushi Commercial Designer Leon Parks Editorial Assistant India Bourke Newstatesman.com Julia Rampen Anoosh Chakelian Anna Leszkiewicz Amelia Tait Pauline Bock Lizzie Palmer CityMetric Editor Jonn Elledge Contributing Writers John Gray Rowan Williams Ed Smith John Bew Leo Robson Erica Wagner Shiraz Maher Sophie McBain Brendan Simms Martin Fletcher Special Projects Editor Will Dunn Commercial Director Peter Coombs 020 3096 2267 Contents Free thinking since 1913 Stephen Bush: Jeremy Corbyn’s unfinished revolution 22 Ink in the blood: Helen Lewis on James Graham 28 Up Front 3 Leader 10 Correspondence Columns 7 Peter Wilby on North Korea and the bomb, online shopping and the Guardian’s money problems 9 Mehdi Hasan on Donald Trump and the generals 19 Sylvie Bermann writes this week’s Diary 36 Ed Smith on the wilful blindness of Arsenal’s manager, Arsène Wenger Observations 12 In the Picture 13 Commentary: Glyn Ford The calculations driving North Korea’s nuclear programme 14 Commons Confidential: Kevin Maguire The pick of the best gossip from Westminster 16 Encounter: George Eaton Labour peer Andrew Adonis on how his party will stop Brexit 17 Trends: Sophie McBain How Google searches reveal our darkest thoughts 18 Newsmaker: Julia Rampen Burma’s troubled leader, Aung San Suu Kyi Articles 22 Stephen Bush on Jeremy Corbyn’s newfound power 24 Chris Deerin talks to Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson about Brexit 28 Helen Lewis meets political theatre’s new great hope, playwright James Graham The Critics: Books 38 John Gray explores the mythic meaning of Adam and Eve 42 William Boyd on how John le Carré’s new novel completes the Cold War story of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold 44 Leo Robson on Salman Rushdie’s not-so-great American novel, Golden House 45 John Burnside The NS Poem: “Towards the Revival of Everyday Courtesies: Funeral Rites” 46 Frank Cottrell-Boyce marvels at Robert Webb’s memoir of struggles with masculinity and class, How Not to Be a Boy 47 Preti Taneja on Kamila Shamsie’s Booker-longlisted novel Home Fire 48 Lucy Hughes-Hallett admires the cool honesty of Sigrid Rausing’s memoir Mayhem 50 Alasdair McKillop on Keegan and Dalglish by Richard T Kelly 51 Erica Wagner on Omar El Akkad’s debut novel American War The paper in this magazine originates from timber that is sourced from sustainable forests, responsibly managed to strict environmental, social and economic standards. The manufacturing mills have both FSC and PEFC certification and also ISO9001 and ISO14001 accreditation. 4 | NEW STATESMAN | 8-14 SEPTEMBER 2017
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Cover art direction Erica Weathers Cover image André Carrilho Heart of a spy: William Boyd on John le Carré 42 Couple’s retreat: John Gray on the Adam and Eve story 38 The Critics: Arts 51 Anna Leskiewicz on how the Japanese show Terrace House is reinventing reality TV 54 Television: Rachel Cooke is delighted to return to the world of Mitchell and Webb 55 Film: Ryan Gilbey gets grim autopsies and heavy metaphors in Taylor Sheridan’s Wind River. 55 Radio: Antonia Quirke recalls the best of Test Match Special Back Pages 57 Drink Nina Caplan 58 Down and Out Nicholas Lezard 59 Off the Record Tracey Thorn 60 The Fan Hunter Davies 61 Crossword, Subscriber of the Week, The Returning Officer and NS Word Games 62 The NS Q&A Conor McPherson +What’s happening on newstatesman.com The promises and predictions of Brexiteers are collapsing A bleak assessment from the director of Open Britain Why are social conservatives so triggered by John Lewis’s gender-neutral kids’ clothing? The backlash to removing “girls” and “boys” labels “Arsène Wenger is like a painter standing too close to the canvas” Ed Smith, page 36 Artwork Cartoons, photographs and illustrations by Alex Brenchley, André Carrilho, Sean Coen, Stavros Damos, Andrew Evans, Grizelda and Ian McGowan. Graphics by Dan Murrell Andrew Adonis: Labour will back a new Brexit referendum within six months George Eaton talks to the ex-minister and Labour peer NS Podcast #232 Do we have to talk about Brexit? Helen and Stephen discuss Kezia Dugdale’s resignation and the future of Scottish Labour. Plus: the Brexit negotiations get serious. newstatesman.com/podcast Subscribe Save £113* Subscribe to the New Statesman and claim your free case of wine, worth £61.94, OR a free book by Charlie Laderman and Brendan Simms, Donald Trump: The Making of a World View. Turn to page 63 for more about the offer, or go to: subscribe. newstatesman.com/ link/don Just £92 for the year (UK), £104 Europe, £129 ROW – even cheaper for students! * Save £113 on the news-stand price 8-14 SEPTEMBER 2017 | NEW STATESMAN | 5

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71-73 Carter Lane London EC4V 5EQ Tel 020 7936 6400 Subscription inquiries: Stephen Brasher sbrasher@ newstatesman.co.uk 0800 731 8496

Editor Jason Cowley Deputy Editor Helen Lewis Features Editor Xan Rice Culture Editor Tom Gatti Digital Editor Jasper Jackson Political Editor George Eaton Creative Editor Gerry Brakus Arts Editor Kate Mossman Assistant Editor Michael Prodger Special Correspondent Stephen Bush Contributing Editors Mehdi Hasan Laurie Penny Jemima Goldsmith Chris Deerin Head of Production Jessica Cargill Thompson Deputy Head of Production Yo Zushi Commercial Designer Leon Parks Editorial Assistant India Bourke

Newstatesman.com Julia Rampen Anoosh Chakelian Anna Leszkiewicz Amelia Tait Pauline Bock Lizzie Palmer

CityMetric Editor Jonn Elledge

Contributing Writers John Gray Rowan Williams Ed Smith John Bew Leo Robson Erica Wagner Shiraz Maher Sophie McBain Brendan Simms Martin Fletcher

Special Projects Editor Will Dunn

Commercial Director Peter Coombs 020 3096 2267

Contents Free thinking since 1913

Stephen Bush: Jeremy Corbyn’s unfinished revolution 22 Ink in the blood: Helen Lewis on James Graham 28

Up Front

3 Leader 10 Correspondence

Columns

7 Peter Wilby on North Korea and the bomb, online shopping and the Guardian’s money problems 9 Mehdi Hasan on Donald Trump and the generals 19 Sylvie Bermann writes this week’s Diary 36 Ed Smith on the wilful blindness of Arsenal’s manager, Arsène Wenger

Observations

12 In the Picture 13 Commentary: Glyn Ford The calculations driving North Korea’s nuclear programme 14 Commons Confidential: Kevin Maguire The pick of the best gossip from Westminster 16 Encounter: George Eaton Labour peer Andrew Adonis on how his party will stop Brexit 17 Trends: Sophie McBain How Google searches reveal our darkest thoughts 18 Newsmaker: Julia Rampen Burma’s troubled leader, Aung San Suu Kyi

Articles

22 Stephen Bush on Jeremy Corbyn’s newfound power 24 Chris Deerin talks to Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson about Brexit 28 Helen Lewis meets political theatre’s new great hope, playwright James Graham

The Critics: Books

38 John Gray explores the mythic meaning of Adam and Eve 42 William Boyd on how John le Carré’s new novel completes the Cold War story of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold 44 Leo Robson on Salman Rushdie’s not-so-great American novel, Golden House 45 John Burnside The NS Poem: “Towards the Revival of Everyday Courtesies: Funeral Rites” 46 Frank Cottrell-Boyce marvels at Robert Webb’s memoir of struggles with masculinity and class, How Not to Be a Boy 47 Preti Taneja on Kamila Shamsie’s Booker-longlisted novel Home Fire 48 Lucy Hughes-Hallett admires the cool honesty of Sigrid Rausing’s memoir Mayhem 50 Alasdair McKillop on Keegan and Dalglish by Richard T Kelly 51 Erica Wagner on Omar El Akkad’s debut novel American War

The paper in this magazine originates from timber that is sourced from sustainable forests, responsibly managed to strict environmental, social and economic standards. The manufacturing mills have both FSC and PEFC certification and also ISO9001 and ISO14001 accreditation.

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