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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...
Will Keir Starmer actually unify Britain?
The New Statesman· 1 day agoGovernment, Keir Starmer said as he stood on the steps of Downing Street as Prime Minister for the first time last week, should “treat every single...
Cork’s Morgan McSweeney relaxed at home after orchestrating Labour’s historic UK election win
Irish Independent· 3 days agoDubbed as the ‘right-hand man’ of new UK prime minister Keir Starmer, Macroom’s Morgan McSweeney...
Labour's base is not as shallow as it seems
The New Statesman· 5 days agoCritics of first past the post will feel emboldened to agitate for electoral reform more than ever after this election. Might there be reason for concern...
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...
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...
Why foreign affairs will define the Starmer era
The New Statesman· 4 days agoViewed from the US side of the Atlantic, in recent years British politics has been a bewildering blur. Then there was the rotating cast of characters who...
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...
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...
My head has been turned by the sunflower
The New Statesman· 4 days agoHelianthus annuus, to call the common sunflower by its binomial Latin name, is a heliotrope, implying that as the sun moves across the sky the heads will...
