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Left-behind Britain
The New Statesman· 2 hours 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...
Joe Biden's last debate
The New Statesman· 2 hours 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...
Is the SNP prepared to change again?
The New Statesman· 2 hours 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:...
This is the long Brexit election
The New Statesman· 2 hours agoOn 4 July, Labour will win the election but not the country. The Conservative Party meanwhile has suffered a post-Brexit disintegration, agonisingly slow...
Yorgos Lanthimos’s Kinds of Kindness is grotesque
The New Statesman· 21 hours agoThree times is enemy action, says Auric Goldfinger. By this measure, Kinds of Kindness is determinedly hostile. Yorgos Lanthimos’s follow-up to Poor...
The Policy Ask with Paul McNamee: "The prospect of Rachel Reeves becoming the first female...
The New Statesman· 19 hours agoPaul McNamee is the director of Labour Climate and Environment Forum. This has included advising on...
