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Can Rishi Sunak turn it around?
The New Statesman· 5 days agoRishi Sunak delivered another solid performance in last night’s BBC head-to-head with Keir Starmer, perfecting his springy if supercilious debating...
Why Roger Deakin’s Waterlog will change your life
The New Statesman· 5 days agoThe book was a bestseller upon release, and Deakin – who died in 2006, at 63, from a brain tumour – was respected as an environmentalist, documentary...
Down and Out: the Movie – in cinemas not quite yet
The New Statesman· 6 days agoHe’s a film producer so I didn’t mind too much, and the confinement wasn’t too bad: the cabin was actually luxurious and he poured Californian wines down...
Can a feuding French left keep out the far right?
The New Statesman· 3 days agoAhead of the first round of voting in the legislative elections this Sunday, the French left has united for only the second time in its recent history....
Letter of the week: How a nation sees itself
The New Statesman· 6 days agoOf all the fine contributions to “How to fix a nation” (Cover Story, 21 June), Anthony Seldon’s had me banging the table in agreement. It’s to the credit...
The Tory media has gone into meltdown
The New Statesman· 3 days agoThe thing no one tells you about the stages of grief is that they are not, in fact, stages. This exhausted government has not left this mortal plane...
Keir Starmer is the consummate late bloomer
The New Statesman· 5 days agoTony Blair and David Cameron were just 43 when they won. At the time, Cameron was the youngest prime minister since 1812, before he was undertaken by...
A staggering first-round victory for Marine Le Pen
The New Statesman· 2 days agoEmmanuel Macron’s political gamble has backfired.
Biden's performance should make us grateful for the Deep State
The New Statesman· 4 days agoEven if it’s been on autopilot, America has continued to function.
The new Europe chooses its leaders
The New Statesman· 6 days agoUrsula von der Leyen, Kaja Kallas and António Costa have been selected for the bloc’s top jobs.
