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Is the SNP prepared to change again?
The New Statesman· 4 days agoWith a week to go, if I were a betting man – which, unlike the entire political establishment, it seems, I’m not – I’d go for something like this:...
Left-behind Britain
The New Statesman· 4 days agoJulius Nyerere became the first president of Tanzania, and Lee Kuan Yew the first prime minister of self-governing Singapore. Nyerere and Lee may have...
This is the long Brexit election
The New Statesman· 4 days agoOn 4 July, Labour will win the election but not the country. The Conservative Party meanwhile has suffered a post-Brexit disintegration, agonisingly slow...
Joe Biden's last debate
The New Statesman· 4 days agoTwo things are clear after watching last night’s debate: Donald Trump should not be the next American president – and nor should Joe Biden. For months...
Can Rishi Sunak turn it around?
The New Statesman· 5 days agoRishi Sunak delivered another solid performance in last night’s BBC head-to-head with Keir Starmer, perfecting his springy if supercilious debating...
The Policy Ask with Paul McNamee: "The prospect of Rachel Reeves becoming the first female...
The New Statesman· 5 days agoPaul McNamee is the director of Labour Climate and Environment Forum. This has included advising on...
Yorgos Lanthimos’s Kinds of Kindness is grotesque
The New Statesman· 5 days agoThree times is enemy action, says Auric Goldfinger. By this measure, Kinds of Kindness is determinedly hostile. Yorgos Lanthimos’s follow-up to Poor...
Keir Starmer is the consummate late bloomer
The New Statesman· 5 days agoTony Blair and David Cameron were just 43 when they won. At the time, Cameron was the youngest prime minister since 1812, before he was undertaken by...
Why Roger Deakin’s Waterlog will change your life
The New Statesman· 5 days agoThe book was a bestseller upon release, and Deakin – who died in 2006, at 63, from a brain tumour – was respected as an environmentalist, documentary...
Why Roger Deakin’s Waterlog will change your life
The New Statesman· 5 days agoThe book was a bestseller upon release, and Deakin – who died in 2006, at 63, from a brain tumour – was respected as an environmentalist, documentary...