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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...
Letter of the week: Missions without omission
The New Statesman· 2 days agoLabour has a chance to correct this. In the late Sixties its sister, the Northern Ireland Labour Party, offering non-sectarian social and economic...
Will the Tories ever recover from this defeat?
The New Statesman· 2 days agoThis was an election campaign that – from a Conservative perspective – was all about damage limitation. Perhaps left-wing electors might get their sense...
From Neil Jordan to Lara Maiklem: new books reviewed in short
The New Statesman· 2 days agoJordan frequently second guesses his recollection, and wonders aloud whether he should even be...
Rishi Sunak has lost the argument on growth
The New Statesman· 2 days agoLabour’s focus on economic progress has paid off.
Drivers with their own driveway will be handed extra £1,800 a year in bank account
Birmingham Live via Yahoo News UK· 2 days agoThese costs can become even cheaper if drivers choose an EV-specific energy tariff, which some providers including British Gas and Octopus Energy offer.
Reform candidates are sinister
The New Statesman· 3 days agoBritain may be broken, as Nigel Farage’s campaign declares. If it were the case of “one or two slip[ping] through the net that shouldn’t have done” – as...
The media's bad election campaign
The New Statesman· 3 days agoNeither the politicians nor the broadcasters have distinguished themselves in this election campaign. Journalists working for traditional organisations...
Biden’s only choice
The New Statesman· 3 days agoWhen Trump declared that Democrats were in favour of “after-birth” abortions, for instance, which is to say they want to kill newborn babies, Biden was...
The young prole rebels of Dexys Midnight Runners
The New Statesman· 3 days agoRowland is the lieutenant of the donkey-jacketed punk-soul army, who wrote his own full-page ads for their albums in the music press in a protest against...