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Keir Starmer’s hard road ahead
The New Statesman· 5 days agoOne thing we can all agree on: Keir Starmer’s Labour government has been an unmitigated disaster. Bloody Labour, stodgy betrayers – they have already...
Letter of the week: Missions without omission
The New Statesman· 5 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...
Why do big digital projects in the public sector fail?
The New Statesman· 4 days agoBoth Labour and the Conservatives have promised better and more efficient online government services...
The 12 constituencies to watch
The New Statesman· 3 days agoThe contours of this election were set early on in the campaign: the collapse of the Conservatives; the rise of Reform, catalysed by Nigel Farage’s...
Is Reform taking Labour votes?
The New Statesman· 4 days agoReform is confident of picking up millions of votes on Thursday. It puts many more seats within Labour’s grasp, and makes its route to a huge win much...
Labour has been sent a warning
The New Statesman· 2 days agoIt allows Keir Starmer’s Labour to begin an audacious and incredibly difficult project of national rebuilding – in terms of public services, the economy...
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...
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...
Democracy begins with us
The New Statesman· 5 days agoAs a journalist in authoritarian China, I learned the value of community. As a parliamentary candidate in the UK, I am determined to preserve it.
Why MPs are happier when they lose
The New Statesman· 4 days agoWhen Brian Donohoe lost Central Ayrshire in 2015, he had a final message for his constituents – “f**k off”. Donohoe tells me now that he still hears from...
