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The Macron era is over
The New Statesman· 3 days agoIt is going to get worse for Emmanuel Macron. When the polls were already looking bad ahead of the first-round parliamentary vote on 30 June, his last...
Nigel Farage claims Reform UK set to come second across the North East in General Election
Chronicle Live via Yahoo News UK· 7 days agoElectoral Calculus predicts Reform could win 18 seats next week but a separate poll tracker built by...
Elbridge Colby: “I am signalling to China that my policy is status quo”
The New Statesman· 2 days agoFor about a decade, Elbridge Colby has been making a single argument in and out of government: that...
The end of accountability
The New Statesman· 2 days 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”,...
Labour’s first policy should be to break up the NHS
The New Statesman· 2 days agoThe most famous example in recent times was Bank of England independence, a policy Gordon Brown developed in secret over the two years before the 1997...
Why MPs are happier when they lose
The New Statesman· 1 day 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...
The Lib Dems could become the opposition
The New Statesman· 18 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...
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...
The media's bad election campaign
The New Statesman· 2 days agoNeither the politicians nor the broadcasters have distinguished themselves in this election campaign. Journalists working for traditional organisations...
Susie Alegre Q&A: “I was advised to travel the world or join the circus”
The New Statesman· 2 days agoThe human rights lawyer on Eleanor Roosevelt, Northern Exposure and Manx history and folklore.
