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The end of accountability
The New Statesman· 24 hours ago“If you cut the connection between a cat’s cerebellum and the rest of its brain, it still looks alive,” Dan Davies writes. As with “decebrate cats”,...
Reform candidates are sinister
The New Statesman· 2 days 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...
Working mothers are being silenced at work with NDAs
Yahoo Finance UK· 6 days agoMore than 435,000 mothers in the UK are estimated to have been gagged by NDAs following discrimination, bullying and harassment...and change their ways,”...
Can a law make social media less 'addictive'? Politicians are about to find out
BBC News· 3 days agoNew York Governor Kathy Hochul was clear about her opinion of social media earlier this month,...
Letter of the week: Missions without omission
The New Statesman· 1 day agoLabour has a chance to correct this. In the late Sixties its sister, the Northern Ireland Labour Party, offering non-sectarian social and economic...
As the campaign draws to an end, it’s time to lay down my pen
The New Statesman· 24 hours agoAlso this week: The far right’s rabid dogs, and Labour vs my garden trowel.
Rishi Sunak has lost the argument on growth
The New Statesman· 1 day agoLabour’s focus on economic progress has paid off.
Democracy begins with us
The New Statesman· 1 day agoAs a journalist in authoritarian China, I learned the value of community. As a parliamentary candidate in the UK, I am determined to preserve it.
Sunak’s honours list faces a Starmer peer review
The New Statesman· 1 day agoYour weekly dose of gossip from the campaign trail.
The Conservative catastrophe
The New Statesman· 2 days agoSignificantly, Tory strategists lowered their sights after the first few disastrous weeks of the campaign. No longer are the Conservatives seriously...