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Rishi Sunak has lost the argument on growth
The New Statesman· 17 hours agoLabour’s focus on economic progress has paid off.
Will the Tories ever recover from this defeat?
The New Statesman· 16 hours agoThis was an election campaign that – from a Conservative perspective – was all about damage limitation. Perhaps left-wing electors might get their sense...
Energy supplier OVO to explore options including sale
Sky News via Yahoo News UK· 4 days agoBritain's fourth-biggest household energy supplier is lining up bankers to explore options including...
The media's bad election campaign
The New Statesman· 23 hours agoNeither the politicians nor the broadcasters have distinguished themselves in this election campaign. Journalists working for traditional organisations...
Reform candidates are sinister
The New Statesman· 23 hours 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...
Evangelical Christians’ Trumpian pact
The New Statesman· 7 days agoAt first glance, the elevation of a candidate such as Donald Trump to be the Republicans’ undisputed, all-knowing and all-powerful leader seemed to...
What the National Rally’s rise means for Labour
The New Statesman· 2 days agoKeir Starmer and David Lammy may soon be faced with nationalist governments across the Atlantic and the Channel.
Labour’s missions are no substitute for ideology
The New Statesman· 2 days agoOne of the most insistent refrains in Keir Starmer’s campaigning rhetoric has been that he represents a constructive break with a disordered past....
Why Roger Deakin’s Waterlog will change your life
The New Statesman· 6 days agoThe book was a bestseller upon release, and Deakin – who died in 2006, at 63, from a brain tumour – was respected as an environmentalist, documentary...
Sunak’s shrinking campaign: from the door of No 10 to doorsteps in his constituency…
The New Statesman· 7 days agoYour weekly dose of gossip from the campaign trail.