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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...
Rishi Sunak has lost the argument on growth
The New Statesman· 2 days agoLabour’s focus on economic progress has paid off.
The young prole rebels of Dexys Midnight Runners
The New Statesman· 3 days agoRowland is the lieutenant of the donkey-jacketed punk-soul army, who wrote his own full-page ads for their albums in the music press in a protest against...
A staggering first-round victory for Marine Le Pen
The New Statesman· 4 days agoEmmanuel Macron's political gamble has backfired.
The media's bad election campaign
The New Statesman· 3 days agoNeither the politicians nor the broadcasters have distinguished themselves in this election campaign. Journalists working for traditional organisations...
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.
Left-behind Britain
The New Statesman· 7 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...
This is the long Brexit election
The New Statesman· 7 days agoOn 4 July, Labour will win the election but not the country. The Conservative Party meanwhile has suffered a post-Brexit disintegration, agonisingly slow...
Biden’s only choice
The New Statesman· 3 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...
