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How Jeremy Hunt survived the breaking of the Blue Wall
The New Statesman· 2 days ago“This is the Holy Grail,” one Lib Dem told me as we sat waiting for the count in Godalming and Ash....
The Lib Dems could become the opposition
The New Statesman· 4 days agoCould Ed Davey become the first Liberal leader since Henry Campbell-Bannerman in 1900 to become His Majesty’s Leader of the Opposition? Survation...
This England: Gulls go postal
The New Statesman· 5 days agoThis column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain – has run in the New Statesman since 1934.
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 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...
The SNP has finally been punished
The New Statesman· 2 days agoBig hitters such as Joanna Cherry, Alyn Smith and Stewart McDonald are gone – each perhaps a loss to parliament, but each swept aside by a spasm of anger...
Sunak’s honours list faces a Starmer peer review
The New Statesman· 5 days agoYour weekly dose of gossip from the campaign trail.
Keir Starmer appoints a continuity cabinet
The New Statesman· 1 day agoThere are few surprises, as Labour opts for stability over flare.
What the National Rally’s rise means for Labour
The New Statesman· 6 days agoKeir Starmer and David Lammy may soon be faced with nationalist governments across the Atlantic and the Channel.
How Labour can govern for working people
The New Statesman· 2 days agoThe Conservatives brutally ejected from office. When I congratulated Keir Starmer this morning my message to him was clear. The trade union movement...
