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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...
Sunak’s honours list faces a Starmer peer review
The New Statesman· 2 days agoYour weekly dose of gossip from the campaign trail.
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...
Rishi Sunak has lost the argument on growth
The New Statesman· 2 days agoLabour’s focus on economic progress has paid off.
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...
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 Supreme Court has made Trump "a king above the law"
The New Statesman· 2 days agoThe Supreme Court delivered its historic ruling in the case of Trump v. United States on Monday (1...
Inside the Greens’ battle for Bristol Central
The New Statesman· 2 days agoAt a busy junction at the bottom of one of Bristol’s many hills is a billboard declaring: “The Conservatives are toast.” The advert was paid for by the...
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...
Biden’s only choice
The New Statesman· 2 days agoWhen Trump declared that Democrats were in favour of “after-birth” abortions, for instance, which is to say they want to kill newborn babies, Biden was...
