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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...
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...
James Corden’s comedy of menace
The New Statesman· 5 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.
Universal Credit and benefits freebies you can get in July worth up to £4,700
The Sun· 6 days agoMost energy firms have grant schemes available to customers that are struggling to cover their bills. Eligibility criteria varies depending on the supplier and the amount you can get depends ...
FTSE 100 movers: Land Securities boosted by upgrade; Centrica in the red
ShareCast· 2 days agoLondon’s FTSE 100 was up 0.3% at 8,189.25 in afternoon trade on Monday.
The risk of deepfakes deciding elections is real
The New Statesman· 5 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...
Keir Starmer is the consummate late bloomer
The New Statesman· 7 days agoTony Blair and David Cameron were just 43 when they won. At the time, Cameron was the youngest prime minister since 1812, before he was undertaken by...
Why Roger Deakin’s Waterlog will change your life
The New Statesman· 7 days agoThe book was a bestseller upon release, and Deakin – who died in 2006, at 63, from a brain tumour – was respected as an environmentalist, documentary...
Why therapy apps are all talk
The New Statesman· 7 days agoIt might come down to the approach your therapist takes, the rigour with which they interrogate your statements, the space they provide for you to feel...
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...
