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The risk of deepfakes deciding elections is real
The New Statesman· 3 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· 3 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· 3 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...
Working mothers are being silenced at work with NDAs
Yahoo Finance UK· 4 days agoMore than 435,000 mothers in the UK are estimated to have been gagged by NDAs following discrimination, bullying and harassment...and change their ways,”...
Is the SNP prepared to change again?
The New Statesman· 4 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· 4 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· 4 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· 4 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...
Can Rishi Sunak turn it around?
The New Statesman· 4 days agoRishi Sunak delivered another solid performance in last night’s BBC head-to-head with Keir Starmer, perfecting his springy if supercilious debating...
The Policy Ask with Paul McNamee: "The prospect of Rachel Reeves becoming the first female...
The New Statesman· 4 days agoPaul McNamee is the director of Labour Climate and Environment Forum. This has included advising on...