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Are Reform taking Labour votes?
The New Statesman· 4 days agoReform are confident of picking up millions of votes on Thursday. It puts many more seats within Labour’s grasp, and makes their route to a huge win much...
Why do big digital projects in the public sector fail?
The New Statesman· 4 days agoBoth Labour and the Conservatives have promised better and more efficient online government services...
Subscriber of the week: Jo Lawley
The New Statesman· 5 days agoContact zuzanna.lachendro@newstatesman.co.uk if you would like to be featured.
Susie Alegre Q&A: “I was advised to travel the world or join the circus”
The New Statesman· 5 days agoThe human rights lawyer on Eleanor Roosevelt, Northern Exposure and Manx history and folklore.
The end of accountability
The New Statesman· 5 days ago“If you cut the connection between a cat’s cerebellum and the rest of its brain, it still looks alive,” Dan Davies writes. As with “decebrate cats”,...
Keir Starmer’s hard road ahead
The New Statesman· 5 days agoOne thing we can all agree on: Keir Starmer’s Labour government has been an unmitigated disaster. Bloody Labour, stodgy betrayers – they have already...
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...
As the campaign draws to an end, it’s time to lay down my pen
The New Statesman· 5 days agoAlso this week: The far right’s rabid dogs, and Labour vs my garden trowel.
Labour’s first policy should be to break up the NHS
The New Statesman· 5 days agoThe most famous example in recent times was Bank of England independence, a policy Gordon Brown developed in secret over the two years before the 1997...
This England: Gulls go postal
The New Statesman· 5 days agoThis column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain – has run in the New Statesman since 1934.
