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Why are England football fans so entitled?
The New Statesman· 3 days agoWhy did England get booed so much and so often during those early Euro games? Family and relations of the players, even the lesser-known figures confined...
A staggering first-round victory for Marine Le Pen
The New Statesman· 3 days agoEmmanuel Macron's political gamble has backfired.
Why Roger Deakin’s Waterlog will change your life
The New Statesman· 7 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· 7 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...
The threats faced by Taiwan make Britain’s politics feel provincial
The New Statesman· 2 days agoOnly 11 minor states (plus the Holy See) have formal diplomatic relations with Taiwan and their...
Keir Starmer is the consummate late bloomer
The New Statesman· 7 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...
This is the long Brexit election
The New Statesman· 6 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· 6 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...
The Tory media has gone into meltdown
The New Statesman· 5 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...
