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PMQs review: Sunak and Starmer need to grow up
The New Statesman· 3 days agoAfter Natalie Elphicke’s shock defection last week, there has been fevered speculation (some, if we’re honest, far from serious) about whether a third...
Subscriber of the week: Katy Gordon
The New Statesman· 3 days agoPlease email zuzanna.lachendro@newstatesman.co.uk if you would like to be featured.
How Take That helped me embrace middle age
The New Statesman· 3 days agoMy recognition of this came in the early hours of Sunday morning, in Manchester, as my girlfriends and I sipped a very-much-not-needed gin and tonic....
Will Keir Starmer’s agreement with the unions last?
The New Statesman· 3 days agoLabour is sticking by the New Deal for Working People for one big reason.
In defence of the King Charles portrait
The New Statesman· 3 days agoWhen Lucian Freud convinced the late Queen Elizabeth II to sit for a portrait in 2000, her reaction to the final piece, after 18 months of meetings with...
HMRC's hold music has become our unofficial national anthem
The New Statesman· 3 days agoHopefully this is the most depressing statistic you will read today: in 2022-23, people in the UK...
Going head-to-head with Lisa Nandy over Gaza
The New Statesman· 3 days agoRees-Mogg sparked a diplomatic incident by pointing out that the concentration camps used by the British Army in the Boer War, in which tens of thousands...
This England: Rabbit roundabout
The New Statesman· 3 days agoThis column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain – has run in the NS since 1934.
Are Lidl and Aldi’s bargains actually good value?
The New Statesman· 3 days agoThe discount supermarkets Lidl and Aldi have made this impulse the definitive part of their shopping experience via the bargain bins of the middle aisle,...
Letter of the week: Why we must make Putin pay
The New Statesman· 3 days agoWrite to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.