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Editor-in-chief Jason Cowley Deputy Editor Helen Lewis Head of Books & Features Tom Gatti Political Editor George Eaton Digital Editor Jasper Jackson Creative Editor Gerry Brakus Arts Editor Kate Mossman Reviews Editor Michael Prodger Deputy Culture Editor Anna Leszkiewicz Special Correspondent Stephen Bush Political Correspondent Patrick Maguire Contributing Editors Mehdi Hasan Laurie Penny Jemima Goldsmith Head of Production Peter Williams Deputy Head of Production Lizzie Palmer Commercial Designer Leon Parks Editorial Assistant India Bourke
Newstatesman.com Julia Rampen Anoosh Chakelian Pauline Bock Indra Warnes
New Statesman America Nicky Woolf Sophie McBain
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Head of Podcasts Caroline Crampton
CityMetric Editor Jonn Elledge
Contributing Writers John Bew Martin Fletcher John Gray Shiraz Maher Paul Mason Xan Rice Leo Robson Brendan Simms Ed Smith Amelia Tait Erica Wagner Rowan Williams
Special Projects Editor Will Dunn
Why Meghan Markle is a new kind of princess 36
The Gazan tragedy: what next for the blighted strip? 22
Up Front
3 Leader 10 Correspondence
Columns
7 Peter Wilby on grammar schools, the Rich List and New Society magazine 9 John Bew on Israel, Iran and shifting global alliances 19 Lyn Gardner writes this week’s Diary 21 Mehdi Hasan on how Fox News became a hard-right version of Pravda 29 Stephen Bush writes a Notebook from Israel 40 Amelia Tait on Spotify’s decision to ban R Kelly’s music from its playlists
Observations
12 In the Picture 13 View from Kuala Lumpur: Preeti Jha How a 92-year-old triumphed in Malaysia’s election 14 Commons Confidential: Kevin Maguire The pick of the best gossip from Westminster 16 Encounter: George Eaton How Tory think tank Onward aims to remake conservatism 17 Trends: Michael Barrett Why the rise of the “antivaxxers” endangers lives
The Critics: Books
42 Peter Conradi seeks to understand what motivates Vladimir Putin 45 Adrian Woolfson traces the evolution and subtleties of human speech 46 Colin Kidd examines the long history of the Anglosphere, the continuation of the British empire by other means 47 The NS Poem “The Witness” by Will Eaves 48 Bernardine Evaristo finds that Jesmyn Ward has urgent thoughts on race, as both editor and novelist 49 Seán Hewitt on Jade Sharma’s provocative debut novel Problems 50 John Banville considers the quiet artistry of William Trevor
Articles
22 Cover Story Stephen Pollard, Donald Macintyre and Tom Holland on the tragedy in Gaza 30 Michael Sandel on the appeal of populism across the world 36 Helen Lewis on the prospect of “Princess Meghan”
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