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Keir Starmer wins – but he must deliver quickly
The New Statesman· 2 days agoLabour’s victory is muted and precarious. Its vote share could have only gone up by one or two percentage points on 2019. Starmer could be about to win a...
The media's bad election campaign
The New Statesman· 5 days agoNeither the politicians nor the broadcasters have distinguished themselves in this election campaign. Journalists working for traditional organisations...
The last days of Andy Murray
The New Statesman· 3 days agoAt the French Open earlier this year there was a sense of Götterdämmerung. The downing of the indomitable warrior Rafael Nadal, undoubtedly the greatest...
Letter of the week: Missions without omission
The New Statesman· 5 days agoLabour has a chance to correct this. In the late Sixties its sister, the Northern Ireland Labour Party, offering non-sectarian social and economic...
Labour’s missions are no substitute for ideology
The New Statesman· 6 days agoOne of the most insistent refrains in Keir Starmer’s campaigning rhetoric has been that he represents a constructive break with a disordered past....
The Conservatives invited this disaster
The New Statesman· 2 days agoThis is an election result that leaves the Conservative Party fighting for its life. The oldest and most successful political party in the country –...
Reform candidates are sinister
The New Statesman· 5 days agoBritain may be broken, as Nigel Farage’s campaign declares. If it were the case of “one or two slip[ping] through the net that shouldn’t have done” – as...
The Democrats’ appalling judgement
The New Statesman· 5 days agoThe task of a leader or decision-maker is to be ahead of consensus, not behind it. The Democratic Party, in sticking with the forlorn Joe Biden this...
Will the Tories ever recover from this defeat?
The New Statesman· 5 days agoThis was an election campaign that – from a Conservative perspective – was all about damage limitation. Perhaps left-wing electors might get their sense...
How can Labour create a fair deal for renters?
The New Statesman· 5 days agoAcross the country, the average private renter pays more than a third of their wages in rent to a landlord, and many of those same individuals are forced...