The New Statesman

10 hours ago | newstatesman.com | Ed Miliband

The International Energy Agency (IEA) was founded after the oil price shock of 1973, marking a recognition of the need for a multilateral response to the crisis. More than 50 years on, recent events, including Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, have demonstrated once again that energy security and national security are inextricably linked—and that lasting energy security comes from countries working together.

1 day ago | newstatesman.com | Andrew Marr

It is impossible to be certain – journalists are lousy soothsayers – but if we take a cold, hard, logical look, then China will win. In the conflict for supremacy that is now raging between the Communist Party leadership in Beijing and President Trump’s Washington, we should bet on China. This isn’t a cheerful thing to say. It has momentous consequences for the UK.

6 days ago | newstatesman.com | Chris Power

By 1965 Brian Friel was already finding success as a playwright – Philadelphia, Here I Come! would soon open on Broadway – but that same year he told Acorn, a Derry-based university magazine, “I don’t concentrate on the theatre at all. I live on short stories. This is where my living comes from. As for playwriting it began as a sort of self-indulgence and then eventually I got caught up more and more in it.

1 week ago | newstatesman.com | Jonn Elledge

Sooner or later, one of three things is going to happen. The government can accept and embrace high international student numbers. It can increase the money being paid to universities from domestic sources, either by increasing taxpayer subsidies or – if you’d prefer a plan that does not currently feel less likely than, say, war with Spain – raising fees. Alternatively, it can sit back, do nothing and watch a university go bust. As things stand, this third option is by some distance the most likely.

1 week ago | newstatesman.com | Matt Hill

In 2020 Irvin Yalom, perhaps the world’s most famous psychotherapist, began an experiment that ran contrary to over a century of received wisdom in his field. Yalom was 89, but his services were still in demand among readers of his many works of fiction and nonfiction, which include some of the best books ever written about the “talking cure”.