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This shabby election campaign is finally over
The New Statesman· 3 days agoOne Tory insider mused to me this week that the result was decided months ago, that their impending failure could be explained by Boris Johnson and Liz...
The last days of Andy Murray
The New Statesman· 3 days agoAt the French Open earlier this year there was a sense of Götterdämmerung. The downing of the indomitable warrior Rafael Nadal, undoubtedly the greatest...
The Conservative catastrophe
The New Statesman· 5 days agoRecent polling predicts electoral catastrophe for the Conservatives. A Survation poll taken in the first half of June anticipated the party winning only...
Revealed: the 103 professional lobbyists standing in the 2024 general election
The New Statesman· 4 days agoWhatever the result of Thursday’s general election, the voters of Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven...
Subscriber of the week: Jo Lawley
The New Statesman· 5 days agoContact zuzanna.lachendro@newstatesman.co.uk if you would like to be featured.
Letter of the week: Missions without omission
The New Statesman· 5 days agoLabour has a chance to correct this. In the late Sixties its sister, the Northern Ireland Labour Party, offering non-sectarian social and economic...
The Conservatives invited this disaster
The New Statesman· 2 days agoThis is an election result that leaves the Conservative Party fighting for its life. The oldest and most successful political party in the country –...
Labour has won the election – it hasn’t won the argument
The New Statesman· 2 days agoKeir Starmer’s task of earning his majority begins today.
Labour’s landslide will transform British politics
The New Statesman· 2 days agoThe Labour Party is returning to government. In a less tribal era of multi-party politics, Labour’s very existence was questioned. A popular theory is...
Mark Haddon: Why I turned down an OBE
The New Statesman· 4 days agoThe author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time on why he could not in good conscience accept anything from Rishi Sunak’s government.