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Sunak’s honours list faces a Starmer peer review
The New Statesman· 5 days agoYour weekly dose of gossip from the campaign trail.
Election night should have been jubilant. Why did it feel flat?
The New Statesman· 1 day agoThe sun wasn’t shining then, it being November, and also night-time; and in retrospect, the...
The not quite moving right show
The New Statesman· 1 day agoThe general election saw a redoubtable Reform UK win 14 per cent of the vote and five parliamentary seats on a hardline anti-immigrant platform; it paved...
Where next for the Tories?
The New Statesman· 1 day agoIt ended as it began: with Rishi Sunak standing outside 10 Downing Street in the rain. When he announced the election six weeks ago, Sunak gave the...
The SNP has finally been punished
The New Statesman· 2 days agoBig hitters such as Joanna Cherry, Alyn Smith and Stewart McDonald are gone – each perhaps a loss to parliament, but each swept aside by a spasm of anger...
Labour's house of cards
The New Statesman· 1 day agoThis is the most effective distribution of the Labour vote in the party’s history. Chief campaign strategist, Morgan McSweeney, should take a bow. There...
Will England love the real Jude Bellingham?
The New Statesman· 1 day agoThis is the arc of Jude Bellingham. On TalkSport, the ex-Premier League manager René Meulensteen called his celebration against Slovakia “arrogant”,...
The Lib Dems could become the opposition
The New Statesman· 3 days 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 precarious triumph
The New Statesman· 2 days agoAfter one of the worst defeats in its history, Labour has achieved one of its biggest victories. Upon becoming leader in 2020, Keir Starmer observed that...
After a historic Labour victory, I’m choosing hope
The New Statesman· 2 days agoA little under five years ago, in December 2019, I wrote a column – among my first for this magazine – reflecting on the result of that month’s election,...
