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The Conservative Party faces total devastation
The New Statesman· 19 hours agoIf forecast figures have even some bearing on reality, this election will write history in a way like no other. Britain’s Conservative and Unionist Party...
Subscriber of the week: Jo Lawley
The New Statesman· 2 days agoContact zuzanna.lachendro@newstatesman.co.uk if you would like to be featured.
The Lib Dems could become the opposition
The New Statesman· 21 hours agoCould Ed Davey become the first Liberal leader since Henry Campbell-Bannerman in 1900 to become His Majesty’s Leader of the Opposition? Survation...
Labour’s first policy should be to break up the NHS
The New Statesman· 2 days agoContemplating Labour’s 2024 manifesto, I wonder what Wes Streeting might have up his sleeve were he to become secretary of state for health. The most...
Why MPs are happier when they lose
The New Statesman· 2 days agoWhen Brian Donohoe lost Central Ayrshire in 2015, he had a final message for his constituents – “f**k off”. Donohoe tells me now that he still hears from...
As the campaign draws to an end, it’s time to lay down my pen
The New Statesman· 2 days agoAlso this week: The far right’s rabid dogs, and Labour vs my garden trowel.
Rishi Sunak makes his last stand
The New Statesman· 1 day agoThe Prime Minister’s final push was a greatest hits of Tory failures.
James Corden’s comedy of menace
The New Statesman· 6 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.
The risk of deepfakes deciding elections is real
The New Statesman· 6 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...
Rishi Sunak has lost the argument on growth
The New Statesman· 2 days agoLabour’s focus on economic progress has paid off.
