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From the New Statesman team

13 May 2013

Welcome to the New Statesman website. Whether you are a new reader or an existing one - online or via the magazine - we hope you'll enjoy the great writing, fresh ideas and provocative debate that make the New Statesman Britain's award-winning current affairs weekly

From this week, here is a selection of our favourites…

The hollow centre of British politics By Rafael Behr
The Queen of Versailles - review By Ryan Gilbey
A goddess-shaped hole in Naomi Wolf's new work By Helen Lewis

The Politics Column

Everyone’s talking about Nigel, but it’s Nick who has shaken up Westminster for good
There is a stark choice facing British politics, expressed in the rivalry between two leaders. They have very different styles and incompatible creeds.