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Keir Starmer appoints a continuity cabinet
The New Statesman· 22 hours agoThere are few surprises, as Labour opts for stability over flare.
Subsidised Sectarianism and the Irony of History – On This Day in 1974
The Irish News· 1 day agoAll history, being the story of men, is full of irony; Anglo-Irish history has perhaps more than its fair share of it. “Ireland”, as the New Statesman ...
The not quite moving right show
The New Statesman· 1 day agoThe general election saw a redoubtable Reform UK win 14 per cent of the vote and five parliamentary seats on a hardline anti-immigrant platform; it paved...
Labour's house of cards
The New Statesman· 1 day agoThis is the most effective distribution of the Labour vote in the party’s history. Chief campaign strategist, Morgan McSweeney, should take a bow. There...
How Jeremy Hunt survived the breaking of the Blue Wall
The New Statesman· 1 day ago“This is the Holy Grail,” one Lib Dem told me as we sat waiting for the count in Godalming and Ash....
Election night should have been jubilant. Why did it feel flat?
The New Statesman· 1 day agoThe sun wasn’t shining then, it being November, and also night-time; and in retrospect, the...
Where next for the Tories?
The New Statesman· 1 day agoIt ended as it began: with Rishi Sunak standing outside 10 Downing Street in the rain. When he announced the election six weeks ago, Sunak gave the...
Will England love the real Jude Bellingham?
The New Statesman· 1 day agoThis is the arc of Jude Bellingham. On TalkSport, the ex-Premier League manager René Meulensteen called his celebration against Slovakia “arrogant”,...
Labour has a mandate to change Britain's economic weather
The New Statesman· 2 days agoBy six o’clock yesterday morning, with many seats still to declare, weary pundits could already be...
What does Labour's win mean for the green transition?
The New Statesman· 2 days agoThis article was originally published as an edition of the Green Transition, New Statesman...