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State of the parties: who was where on election night
Evening Standard· 2 days agoLondoner’s Diary In Labour-land the New Statesman held its party at the National Liberal Club, where...
Election night is long, but I shall be on form at the New Statesman party
The New Statesman· 5 days agoIncidentally, my favourite headline of the campaign is now over a month old, but it actually gets...
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.
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....
Subsidised Sectarianism and the Irony of History – On This Day in 1974
The Irish News· 1 day agoAll history, being the story of men, is full of irony; Anglo-Irish history has perhaps more than its fair share of it. “Ireland”, as the New Statesman ...
What happens if Rishi Sunak loses his seat?
The New Statesman· 3 days agoWhat happens if Rishi Sunak loses his seat of Richmond and Northallerton? A sitting prime minister has never lost their seat in a general election – and...
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...
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...
The not quite moving right show
The New Statesman· 1 day agoThe general election saw a redoubtable Reform UK win 14 per cent of the vote and five parliamentary seats on a hardline anti-immigrant platform; it paved...
QUENTIN LETTS: Pundits were like chimps with a Rubik's Cube over Nigel
Daily Mail· 2 days agoAt 10pm sharp the exit poll chopped down with the finality of a guillotine blade. I was at a party...
