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The Tory betting scandal symbolises the party’s carelessness in government
The New Statesman· 2 days agoThe betting scandal engulfing the Conservative campaign has the potential to become an...
Can Labour satisfy its new voters?
The New Statesman· 1 day agoAt Kettering Buccleuch Academy yesterday, Keir Starmer fielded questions on whether Arsenal will win the league (yes), his favourite subject at school...
Neuroscientist Charan Ranganath: “People have this illusion that personality is static. It’s not...
The New Statesman· 4 days agoA couple of moments after we sat down to talk, Charan Ranganath made an admission. It was an amusing...
The hospice as a sacred place
The New Statesman· 5 days agoIts founder, Dame Cicely Saunders, was adamantly opposed to “voluntary euthanasia” as it was called in the 1960s, while admitting that unless one took...
Can Sunak or Starmer win over the Sun's readers?
The New Statesman· 2 days agoFielding an audience of Sun readers should be home turf for a Conservative leader: flash your fiscal discipline, flaunt your Euroscepticism, and get your...
The Kremlin will exploit the Dagestan terror attacks
The New Statesman· 2 days agoClad in black, the gunmen surrounded a synagogue and an Orthodox church in Derbent, an ancient city on the Caspian Sea in the Southern Russian region of...
The myth of negotiated peace
The New Statesman· 2 days agoThe idea that war is essentially transactional and that there is a deal always there to be struck (a view which seems to infuse Donald Trump’s approach...
Labour can never win on TikTok
The New Statesman· 5 days agoNow we are in the midst of the first TikTok election, and the warring parties have fallen into the clutches of the very British meme. When it isn’t...
The cheering sounds of childhood
The New Statesman· 7 days agoRight now I am looking out of my window at the patch of sea available to my gaze and it is a beautiful day and the sea is an inviting blue: if I was...
The death of the levelling up dream
The New Statesman· 2 days agoWhatever happened to “levelling up”? At the start of the decade, after a Tory landslide won with the help of a promise to “unite and level up, spreading...
