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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...
A staggering first-round victory for Marine Le Pen
The New Statesman· 4 days agoEmmanuel Macron's political gamble has backfired.
The Tory media has gone into meltdown
The New Statesman· 5 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...
Joe Biden's last debate
The New Statesman· 6 days agoTwo things are clear after watching last night’s debate: Donald Trump should not be the next American president – and nor should Joe Biden. For months...
James Corden’s comedy of menace
The New Statesman· 6 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.
Britain’s new Powellites
The New Statesman· 6 days agoAs Mark Lilla notes in a recent essay on the post-liberal current in American politics and letters, this search for a “usable past” on the right has long...
Left-behind Britain
The New Statesman· 6 days agoJulius Nyerere became the first president of Tanzania, and Lee Kuan Yew the first prime minister of self-governing Singapore. Nyerere and Lee may have...
Francis Bacon’s vile bodies
The New Statesman· 3 days agoIs Francis Bacon the most overrated painter of the 20th century? No, surely that dubious accolade must go to Lucian Freud, the artistic Tweedledum to...
Can you be too old to be president?
The New Statesman· 6 days agoEditor’s note: This piece was originally published on 28 October 2020 and was updated on 28 June 2024. On 27 June, Joe Biden and Donald Trump had their...
What the National Rally’s rise means for Labour
The New Statesman· 3 days agoKeir Starmer and David Lammy may soon be faced with nationalist governments across the Atlantic and the Channel.
