1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (127+ words) This TV series has no right to call itself a comedy Such disordered and disconcerted thoughts were my main response to Disney's Alice and Steve, a strange new TV series which calls itself a comedy, and which plays a very…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (128+ words) Andrea Wulf returns to the world of 18th-century intellectual adventurers, with a life of the naturalist George Forster When a second Russian expedition to the Far East was cancelled, he went, instead, to Mainz in western Germany, where he took…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (178+ words) The actress, who would have turned 100 this month, was born both too early and too late to be properly appreciated The BFI's Marilyn Monroe season hardly helps. While her studio-era predecessors played versions of the same archetype on and off…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago  (277+ words) Without planning reform, invaluable parts of the UK's heritage are at risk of being left to crumble From grand palaces to Victorian terraced housing, historic buildings are part of the UK's cultural fabric. England has roughly 350, 000 listed buildings, and 2. 8 million…...

1+ week, 40+ min ago  (481+ words) Hardacres actor Sarah Agha on her one-woman show about a child in Gaza, and finding humour in dark moments When you're Palestinian," Sarah Agha says, "every choice you make is political." Agha is both a prominent pro-Palestinian activist and an…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (402+ words) The creatures of the air have for centuries inspired some of our finest writing, and they still do Every morning when I walk my dogs, the first thing I hear is the melody of the skylarks as they rise vertiginously…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (212+ words) Safeguarding art at the Tate, and lamenting my daughter's triumph On the day of David Hockney's death, it seemed appropriate to visit Tate Britain. I wondered where I had first seen a painting by Hockney and thought it was probably…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (244+ words) This column is our weekly pub review, written by pintsmen, women and children across the nation. Suggestions to letters@newstatesman. co. uk Northdown Road in Margate is one of those glittering arteries of independent shops, antiques caves and caf's that…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (836+ words) New Statesman David Hockney was the most recognisable and beloved British artist of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Nevertheless, he was acutely aware that his fame was double-edged. "I am very fed up with being a very public "art celebrity,…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (199+ words) A new documentary reveals the vice our economy is built upon No one relishes English deterioration as much as the deteriorating English, and nothing gets us going more than our modern industrial impotency. "We used to make steel," and all…...