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Rishi Sunak has lost the argument on growth
The New Statesman· 5 days agoLabour’s focus on economic progress has paid off.
Reform candidates are sinister
The New Statesman· 5 days agoBritain may be broken, as Nigel Farage’s campaign declares. If it were the case of “one or two slip[ping] through the net that shouldn’t have done” – as...
The media's bad election campaign
The New Statesman· 5 days agoNeither the politicians nor the broadcasters have distinguished themselves in this election campaign. Journalists working for traditional organisations...
The Conservative catastrophe
The New Statesman· 5 days agoRecent polling predicts electoral catastrophe for the Conservatives. A Survation poll taken in the first half of June anticipated the party winning only...
Biden’s only choice
The New Statesman· 5 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...
The young prole rebels of Dexys Midnight Runners
The New Statesman· 5 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...
The Supreme Court has made Trump "a king above the law"
The New Statesman· 5 days agoThe Supreme Court delivered its historic ruling in the case of Trump v. United States on Monday (1...
How bad can it get for the Conservatives?
The New Statesman· 6 days agoWhen the General Election was called I reckoned that the Conservatives were just a margin of error from oblivion. Canada in 1993 – where the...
From the feral to the glamorous at Glastonbury 2024
The New Statesman· 6 days agoGlastonbury is the nation’s biggest festival, and therefore both the most glamorous and the most feral; one of the only places in the world that you are...
The Macron era is over
The New Statesman· 6 days agoIt is going to get worse for Emmanuel Macron. When the polls were already looking bad ahead of the first-round parliamentary vote on 30 June, his last...
