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Giorgia Meloni's hollow support for Ukraine
The New Statesman· 5 days agoItaly's financial woes could soon clash with its defence needs.
The SNP’s uncivil war
The New Statesman· 5 days agoIt was only in May that John Swinney launched his bid to become SNP leader with the words: “I want to unite the SNP and unite Scotland for independence.”...
Why foreign affairs will define the Starmer era
The New Statesman· 5 days agoViewed from the US side of the Atlantic, in recent years British politics has been a bewildering blur. Then there was the rotating cast of characters who...
Shakespeare’s guide to living
The New Statesman· 5 days agoA Freudian reading of the comedies and tragedies reveals how we can embrace life’s failures and reversals.
The Tory centre will not hold
The New Statesman· 5 days agoBitter disgust towards the Conservatives and resigned acceptance of Labour as the default option have intermingled, and – with an infusion from the...
EU’s China trade weak spots hide in plain sight
Reuters· 5 days agoLONDON, July 9 (Reuters Breakingviews) - “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting”. Chinese strategist Sun Tzu may have been...
The 'prison-like' Brixton housing block part of London's failed 'mega-motorway' plan
My London via Yahoo News UK· 5 days ago-Credit:Danny Robinson/Wikimedia Commons Famously in 2003, Darcus Howe, the late broadcaster and...
Why Labour is dropping “levelling up”
The New Statesman· 5 days agoNew Labour’s constitutional reforms are arguably its most enduring domestic legacy. In his “Take back control” speech last year, he promised a new law to...
TikTok will destroy our sense of political history
The New Statesman· 6 days agoWhether or not 2024 was Britain’s first “TikTok election”, the next one certainly will be. All our major political parties are on the app too. As...
The Tories will keep losing if they chase Reform
The New Statesman· 6 days agoThe simplest explanation for why the Conservatives didn’t just lose last week’s election but went down to a catastrophic defeat is that the right was...
