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Is this election beyond satire?
The New Statesman· 4 days agoWith the Tories writing their own punchlines, the jokes in Michael Spicer: No Room are all too plausible.
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Keir Starmer is the consummate late bloomer
The New Statesman· 3 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...
Boris Johnson should take the fight to Nigel Farage
The New Statesman· 2 days agoRegular readers of these columns will know that I am not a fan of Boris Johnson. Much of the responsibility for the current state of the Tory party is...
The risk of deepfakes deciding elections is real
The New Statesman· 2 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...
The Policy Ask with Paul McNamee: "The prospect of Rachel Reeves becoming the first female...
The New Statesman· 3 days agoPaul McNamee is the director of Labour Climate and Environment Forum. This has included advising on...
The Tory media has gone into meltdown
The New Statesman· 1 day 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...
Why therapy apps are all talk
The New Statesman· 3 days agoPeople can pay monthly or one-off rates to have access to thousands of online therapists via a single digital platform. BetterHelp has seen a spike in...
This is the long Brexit election
The New Statesman· 2 days agoOn 4 July, Labour will win the election but not the country. The Conservative Party meanwhile has suffered a post-Brexit disintegration, agonisingly slow...
Biden's performance should make us grateful for the Deep State
The New Statesman· 2 days agoEven if it’s been on autopilot, America has continued to function.