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Why are England football fans so entitled?
The New Statesman· 3 days agoWhy did England get booed so much and so often during those early Euro games? Family and relations of the players, even the lesser-known figures confined...
The young prole rebels of Dexys Midnight Runners
The New Statesman· 2 days agoOne starts this book at the back, like a Japanese novel, because the author has tracked down all 24 living members of Dexys Midnight Runners, leaving...
How can Labour create a fair deal for renters?
The New Statesman· 2 days agoAcross the country, the average private renter pays more than a third of their wages in rent to a landlord, and many of those same individuals are forced...
Susie Alegre Q&A: “I was advised to travel the world or join the circus”
The New Statesman· 2 days agoThe human rights lawyer on Eleanor Roosevelt, Northern Exposure and Manx history and folklore.
The Unthinkable: how Rishi Sunak accidentally won the 2024 general election
The New Statesman· 4 days agoAsk anyone who remembers the night of the 2024 general election and they’ll describe a similar...
Letter of the week: Missions without omission
The New Statesman· 2 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 risk of deepfakes deciding elections is real
The New Statesman· 6 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...
Will the Tories ever recover from this defeat?
The New Statesman· 2 days agoThis was an election campaign that – from a Conservative perspective – was all about damage limitation. Perhaps left-wing electors might get their sense...
Democracy begins with us
The New Statesman· 2 days agoAs a journalist in authoritarian China, I learned the value of community. As a parliamentary candidate in the UK, I am determined to preserve it.
Hamish Falconer: “We will be forming a government under much harder conditions than 1997”
The New Statesman· 5 days agoOn Monday 10 June, Labour campaigners in the East Midlands seat of Lincoln had a new volunteer in...
