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“I’ve done more than anyone else to defeat the far right in Britain”
The New Statesman· 5 days agoThe left, liberals and mainstream Conservatives loathe Nigel Farage. Rishi Sunak fears him and his...
Left-behind Britain
The New Statesman· 3 days agoJulius Nyerere became the first president of Tanzania, and Lee Kuan Yew the first prime minister of self-governing Singapore. Nyerere and Lee may have...
Nigel Farage’s Tory takeover is in peril
The New Statesman· 6 days agoFrom a moderate, centre-right perspective, trying to find something to be optimistic and positive about during this general election campaign has not...
Can Rishi Sunak turn it around?
The New Statesman· 4 days agoRishi Sunak delivered another solid performance in last night’s BBC head-to-head with Keir Starmer, perfecting his springy if supercilious debating...
Down and Out: the Movie – in cinemas not quite yet
The New Statesman· 5 days agoEight years ago he flew me over to Los Angeles and locked me up in a cabin in the mountains near Lake Arrowhead and didn’t let me out until I’d written a...
The end of Tory England
The New Statesman· 5 days agoThe last sprint of this endless election campaign does not make me think there will be any other conclusion than a Labour victory. The Daily Mail, whose...
The risk of deepfakes deciding elections is real
The New Statesman· 3 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...
As anti-Semitism surges, tolerance resurfaces at unexpected moments
The New Statesman· 5 days agoOnly here the binned item was a Jewish Star of David and the crudely lettered slogan beneath read...
Labour can't ignore Northern Ireland forever
The New Statesman· 5 days agoOn the second day of the Conservative Party’s general election campaign, Rishi Sunak delivered a speech in Belfast on a site previously occupied by the...
What the bipartisan gambling scandal means for politics
The New Statesman· 5 days agoLabour’s suspension of a candidate for betting on the election will tarnish the whole system.
