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How the liberal elite turned on Joe Biden
The New Statesman· 1 day agoIn all the media coverage of Joe Biden’s cognitive decline and the national crisis the country now finds itself in, one aspect of the emergency has been...
The four-day work week is the future
The New Statesman· 3 days agoThe evidence is clear: a four-day work week would boost productivity and happiness. So why aren’t our politicians pushing for it?
Alice Munro and the shame of silence
The New Statesman· 4 days agoOne not drawn from knowledge of specific facts or events, but rather a general moral authority, drawn from how acutely they understand and reveal the...
Can Rachel Reeves defeat the Nimbys?
The New Statesman· 6 days agoThe Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, has just given her first speech in government in which she outlined her early priorities for creating the economic growth...
Why Donald Trump rejected American conservatism's favourite think tank
The New Statesman· 6 days agoThe least persuasive argument against Donald Trump is that he is a committed ideologue bent on...
Taiwan at the edge of chaos
The New Statesman· 6 days agoIt was hard to discern at first, but as my Taipei hotel rattled and wobbled as a result of an earthquake – six on the Richter scale – I was reminded that...
Will Vaughan Gething survive the month?
The New Statesman· 2 days agoKeir Starmer’s national dominance belies the instability plaguing Welsh Labour. Vaughan Gething could be out as First Minister within a year of his...
The housing crisis will not go away
The New Statesman· 2 days agoThis time last week, the former chancellor and Treasury economic secretary respectively, and now comfortable podcast bloviators, George Osborne and Ed...
Discovering the real Modest Mussorgsky
The New Statesman· 4 days agoIn late 1877, at the height of his fame, Tchaikovsky was asked in a letter from his patroness, Nadezhda von Meck, what he thought of a group of largely...
Can anyone govern France?
The New Statesman· 7 days agoEmmanuel Macron had claimed he wanted to provide a “moment of clarification” for French voters by calling a snap election. According to exit polls from...
