Skip to main content
Read page text
page 4
Editor-in-chief Jason Cowley Deputy Editor Tom Gatti International Editor Jeremy Cliffe Managing Editor Will Dunn Political Editor Stephen Bush Associate Editor Michael Prodger Creative Editor Gerry Brakus Features Editor Kate Mossman Culture Editor Anna Leszkiewicz Special Projects Editor Alona Ferber Britain Editor Anoosh Chakelian Culture Assistant Ellen Peirson-Hagger Senior Online Editor George Eaton Commissioning Editor Gavin Jacobson Special Correspondent Harry Lambert Political Correspondents Patrick Maguire Ailbhe Rea Head of Production Peter Williams Chief Sub-Editor Pippa Bailey Senior Sub-Editor Indra Warnes Social Media Editor Eleanor Peake Digital Culture Writer Sarah Manavis Editorial Assistant Emily Bootle Contributing Writers John Bew Chris Deerin Matthew Engel Martin Fletcher John Gray Shiraz Maher Paul Mason Sophie McBain Adrian Pabst David Reynolds Leo Robson Brendan Simms Ed Smith Amelia Tait Johanna Thomas-Corr Erica Wagner Rowan Williams Head of Marketing Charlotte Mullock 0808 284 9422 Marketing Manager Alfred Jahn Commercial Director Dominic Rae 020 7406 6758 Contents Free thinking since 1913 Swimming with sharks: Downing Street’s power brokers 22 Thunberg alone: how one teenager took on the world 32 Up Front Observations 3 Leader 10 Correspondence Columns 12 In the Picture 13 Comment: Michael Barrett on what the UK can do to prevent coronavirus spreading 14 Commons Confidential: Kevin Maguire The pick of the best gossip from Westminster 16 Encounter: Ivo Dawnay meets the US satirist PJ O’Rourke 18 First Thoughts: Peter Wilby on Priti Patel at the Home Office, and the rural charms of Essex 7 Stephen Bush on how the coronavirus crisis will test Boris Johnson’s leadership 9 Jeremy Cliffe on what the epidemic reveals about the state of globalisation 19 Rachel Reeves writes this week’s Diary 21 Megan Nolan on her mixed feelings over Harvey Weinstein’s upcoming prison sentence 38 Jonathan Liew laments the gentrification of chicken shops 22 Harry Lambert on the group of advisers shaping the New Articles Right agenda from inside No 10 30 Ed Platt examines how the floods have divided Britain 32 Martin Fletcher on how Greta Thunberg’s climate crisis campaign went from a solitary sit-in to a global force The Critics: Books 40 Paul Collier on why the fêted economist Thomas Piketty does not have all the answers 42 Rowan Williams assesses The Mirror and the Light, the final volume of Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell trilogy 44 Sophie McBain on Sally Howard’s The Home Stretch and the politics of housework 46 Frances Wilson on Sylvia Topp’s Eileen, a biography of George Orwell’s first wife 47 Alan Johnson praises Pete Paphides’s Broken Greek, a memoir of a childhood salvaged by music 49 Ailbhe Rea on Kate Fall’s The Gatekeeper, an eyewitness account of David Cameron and his Notting Hill set in government Standard House, 12-13 Essex Street, London WC2R 3AA. Tel 020 7936 6400 4 | NEW STATESMAN | 6-12 MARCH 2020
page 5
Cover art direction Erica Weathers Cover image Ben Jennings Capital losses: Thomas Piketty’s limited economics 40 Bloke signals: the performance of masculinity 52 The Critics: Arts 50 Emily Bootle meets Sophie Allison, the musician behind the pop-rock project Soccer Mommy 52 Yo Zushi on the Barbican’s exploration of men in film and photography, “Masculinities” 54 Film: Ryan Gilbey enjoys Pixar’s latest animation, Onward 55 Television: Rachel Cooke on the power of Noughts + Crosses , the BBC series based on Malorie Blackman’s novel 55 Radio: Antonia Quirke asks: why do we keep returning to The Call of the Wild? “Chicken shops are a part of London working-class culture” Jonathan Liew, page 38 Back Pages 57 Gardening Stefan Buczacki 58 Down and Out Nicholas Lezard 59 Off the Record Tracey Thorn 60 The Fan Hunter Davies 61 Crossword, Subscriber of the Week and NS Word Games 62 The NS Q&A Miranda Hart Artwork Cartoons, photographs and illustrations by Alex Brenchley, Dominic Bugatto, Grizelda, Kristian Hammerstad, Leonie Hampton, Rebecca Hendin, George Leigh, Ian McGowan and Jonathan McHugh Graphics by Dan Murrell +What’s happening on newstatesman.com The battle for the SNP’s soul Tensions within the party are at their worst for decades, says Chris Deerin Is Bernie Sanders a socialist, or a social democrat? George Eaton on why the Democrat is a “class-struggle social democrat” Can the Israeli left reinvent itself? Left parties must unite Jews and Arabs with a progressive vision, says Alona Ferber The NS Podcast Each week, Stephen Bush and Anoosh Chakelian discuss the week in Westminster and beyond, and (try to) answer listeners’ questions about politics. Digital subscribers get an early, ad-free version of each episode. newstatesman.com/podcast Subscribe Save 50% Subscribe to the New Statesman for just £4.75 £2.31 a week. Turn to page 63 for more about the offer, or go to: newstatesman.com/ subscribe Just £120 for a one-year print subscription – even cheaper for students! Subscription inquiries: digital.subscriptions@ newstatesman.co.uk 0808 284 9422 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. 6-12 MARCH 2020 | NEW STATESMAN | 5

Page Text

View plaintext

Cover art direction Erica Weathers

Cover image Ben Jennings

Capital losses: Thomas Piketty’s limited economics 40 Bloke signals: the performance of masculinity 52

The Critics: Arts

50 Emily Bootle meets Sophie Allison, the musician behind the pop-rock project Soccer Mommy 52 Yo Zushi on the Barbican’s exploration of men in film and photography, “Masculinities” 54 Film: Ryan Gilbey enjoys Pixar’s latest animation, Onward 55 Television: Rachel Cooke on the power of Noughts + Crosses , the BBC series based on Malorie Blackman’s novel 55 Radio: Antonia Quirke asks: why do we keep returning to The Call of the Wild?

“Chicken shops are a part of London working-class culture”

Jonathan Liew, page 38

Back Pages

57 Gardening Stefan Buczacki 58 Down and Out Nicholas Lezard 59 Off the Record Tracey Thorn 60 The Fan Hunter Davies 61 Crossword, Subscriber of the Week and NS Word Games 62 The NS Q&A Miranda Hart

Artwork

Cartoons, photographs and illustrations by Alex Brenchley, Dominic Bugatto, Grizelda, Kristian Hammerstad, Leonie Hampton, Rebecca Hendin, George Leigh, Ian McGowan and Jonathan McHugh

Graphics by Dan Murrell

+What’s happening on newstatesman.com

The battle for the SNP’s soul Tensions within the party are at their worst for decades, says Chris Deerin

Is Bernie Sanders a socialist, or a social democrat? George Eaton on why the Democrat is a “class-struggle social democrat”

Can the Israeli left reinvent itself? Left parties must unite Jews and Arabs with a progressive vision, says Alona Ferber

The NS Podcast

Each week, Stephen Bush and Anoosh Chakelian discuss the week in Westminster and beyond, and (try to) answer listeners’ questions about politics. Digital subscribers get an early, ad-free version of each episode. newstatesman.com/podcast

Subscribe

Save 50%

Subscribe to the New Statesman for just £4.75 £2.31 a week. Turn to page 63 for more about the offer, or go to: newstatesman.com/

subscribe Just £120 for a one-year print subscription – even cheaper for students!

Subscription inquiries: digital.subscriptions@ newstatesman.co.uk

0808 284 9422

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.

6-12 MARCH 2020 | NEW STATESMAN | 5

read next page

My Bookmarks

Buy this Book
Skip to main content