The fall of the Conservatives
If the Tories are to recover, they must resist the temptation to blame the electorate.
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Labour’s Britain
Letter of the week: Missions without omission
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Sunak’s honours list faces a Starmer peer review
Your weekly dose of gossip from the campaign trail.
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Inside the Greens’ battle for Bristol Central
As her party surges in one of the UK’s most climate-conscious constituencies, Carla Denyer threatens to unseat Labour’s shadow…
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As the campaign draws to an end, it’s time to lay down my pen
Also this week: The far right’s rabid dogs, and Labour vs my garden trowel.
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Hamish Falconer: “We will be forming a government under much harder conditions than 1997”
The Labour rising star on growing up with a father in Blair’s cabinet and his years as chief negotiator…
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The Macron era is over
The success of Marine Le Pen’s National Rally in France’s parliamentary elections has annihilated the president’s power base.
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Will the Tories ever recover from this defeat?
The party will need to repudiate the failed policies and personalities of the past.
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The threats faced by Taiwan make Britain’s politics feel provincial
In Taipei, at the new president’s inauguration, the huge forces remaking the world were impossible to ignore.
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The Democrats’ appalling judgement
By sticking with Joe Biden, the party has shown how arrogant and out of touch it is.
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Reform candidates are sinister
Nigel Farage’s company-cum-political party is not the answer to any of the UK’s ills.
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Keir Starmer’s hard road ahead
Labour’s project to rebuild Britain is serious – but the odds are stacked against them.
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The Conservative catastrophe
The most successful political party in history has always reinvented itself after defeat. Can it do so again?
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Democracy begins with us
As a journalist in authoritarian China, I learned the value of community. As a parliamentary candidate in the UK,…
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Elbridge Colby: “I am signalling to China that my policy is status quo”
The American strategist, tipped to be Trump’s national security adviser, on the balance of power in Asia.
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The end of accountability
In politics and business, faceless systems have taken over decision-making and infantilised socity.
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The NS Poem: To the Pavement
A new poem by Mark Granier.
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The young prole rebels of Dexys Midnight Runners
Denied an audience with frontman Kevin Rowland, the author Nige Tassell asks the band’s army of musicians to tell…
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From Neil Jordan to Lara Maiklem: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring The Singularity by Dino Buzzati and The Road to the Country by Chigozie Obioma.
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Francis Bacon’s vile bodies
The fusion of violence and pleasure defined the painter’s life and work.
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Left-behind Britain
Paul Collier’s new book reveals how worship of the market made the UK one of the most unequal countries…
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Yorgos Lanthimos’s Kinds of Kindness is grotesque
The director of Poor Things and The Favourite presents three nasty tales of domination and submission.
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A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder is deliciously old-fashioned television
This BBC series is delightful, knowing, involving, non-challenging, a touch silly. Suspend your disbelief, lie back and enjoy.
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James Corden’s comedy of menace
Joe Penhall’s new play The Constituent, starring Corden and Anna Maxwell Martin, is a funny, disturbing vision of public…
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From the feral to the glamorous at Glastonbury 2024
Little Simz and SZA made Coldplay look bland in a festival full of politics, nostalgia and peeing in cups.
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The secret history of strawberries
They are the perfect summer fruit – and the kitchen can’t improve on perfection.
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Labour’s first policy should be to break up the NHS
It would be dramatic and counter-intuitive – but rebuilding healthcare around the doctor-patient relationship is a vital reform.
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Election night is long, but I shall be on form at the New Statesman party
I have called every election wrong since 1974 and suffered many disappointments, but these are different times.
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Anxiety has its own logic and momentum
Immersion in the tragic, personal art of the photographer Nan Goldin provides some counter-intuitive comfort.
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Why are England football fans so entitled?
Modern supporters often expect the impossible of their teams.
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This England: Gulls go postal
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain…
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Subscriber of the week: Jo Lawley
Contact zuzanna.lachendro@newstatesman.co.uk if you would like to be featured.
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Susie Alegre Q&A: “I was advised to travel the world or join the circus”
The human rights lawyer on Eleanor Roosevelt, Northern Exposure and Manx history and folklore.
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