The Saturday Read: Summer of scandal
The weekend's line-up.
The Saturday Read
Your guide to the best writing on politics, culture, books, and ideas each weekend - from the New Statesman
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A very British scandal
Cambridge university’s place in the public imagination is as illusory as Jason Arday’s academic credentials
The Saturday Read: Ends and beginnings
The weekend's line-up.
Exclusive: Brexit "bad boy" Arron Banks launched probe into Sunday Times journalist
The prominent Reform member paid investigators to look into Gabriel Pogrund after his reporting on Nigel Farage’s finances
Europe's shame
The Ceuta crisis has exposed the continent’s hollow centre
The Saturday Read: The world burns
This weekend's line-up.
The new terror
Our Cold War nightmares have returned as a global arms race
The Saturday Read: A new start
Good morning.
No laughing matter
Jim Davidson and Nigel Farage represent an England that will not go quietly
The Take Over
In his first days in No 10, Andy Burnham showed his determination to do politics differently