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Can a feuding French left keep out the far right?
The New Statesman· 1 day agoAhead of the first round of voting in the legislative elections this Sunday, the French left has united for only the second time in its recent history....
The Tory media has gone into meltdown
The New Statesman· 2 days agoThe thing no one tells you about the stages of grief is that they are not, in fact, stages. This exhausted government has not left this mortal plane...
James Corden’s comedy of menace
The New Statesman· 2 days agoJoe Penhall’s new play The Constituent, starring Corden and Anna Maxwell Martin, is a funny, disturbing vision of public service and private despair.
Biden's performance should make us grateful for the Deep State
The New Statesman· 2 days agoEven if it’s been on autopilot, America has continued to function.
The risk of deepfakes deciding elections is real
The New Statesman· 2 days agoEarlier this year I realised, to my profound disappointment, that I hadn’t really been listening to Arnold Schwarzenegger. For a week I listened to a...
Boris Johnson should take the fight to Nigel Farage
The New Statesman· 2 days agoRegular readers of these columns will know that I am not a fan of Boris Johnson. Much of the responsibility for the current state of the Tory party is...
Can you be too old to be president?
The New Statesman· 2 days agoEditor’s note: This piece was originally published on 28 October 2020 and was updated on 28 June 2024. On 27 June, Joe Biden and Donald Trump had their...
Is the SNP prepared to change again?
The New Statesman· 3 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· 3 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· 3 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...
