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James Corden’s comedy of menace
The New Statesman· 7 days agoJoe Penhall’s new play The Constituent, starring Corden and Anna Maxwell Martin, is a funny, disturbing vision of public service and private despair.
Rishi Sunak has lost the argument on growth
The New Statesman· 3 days agoLabour’s focus on economic progress has paid off.
Rishi Sunak makes his last stand
The New Statesman· 2 days agoThe Prime Minister’s final push was a greatest hits of Tory failures.
As the campaign draws to an end, it’s time to lay down my pen
The New Statesman· 3 days agoAlso this week: The far right’s rabid dogs, and Labour vs my garden trowel.
The curse of influencer publishing
The New Statesman· 1 day agoThe slow creep of influencer publishing – the rise of social media stars being handed fat advances and big marketing budgets for memoirs, self-help books...
Will the Tories ever recover from this defeat?
The New Statesman· 3 days agoThis was an election campaign that – from a Conservative perspective – was all about damage limitation. Perhaps left-wing electors might get their sense...
Is Reform taking Labour votes?
The New Statesman· 2 days agoReform is confident of picking up millions of votes on Thursday. It puts many more seats within Labour’s grasp, and makes its route to a huge win much...
The secret history of strawberries
The New Statesman· 3 days agoThey are the perfect summer fruit – and the kitchen can’t improve on perfection.
Susie Alegre Q&A: “I was advised to travel the world or join the circus”
The New Statesman· 3 days agoThe human rights lawyer on Eleanor Roosevelt, Northern Exposure and Manx history and folklore.
Reform candidates are sinister
The New Statesman· 3 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...
