What’s the story?
Voters have lost their sense of what Starmer’s Labour is for. He must use his conference speech to tell them.
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The joy of Glee Club at the Lib Dem conference
Also this week: Victoria Starmer’s dress code, and my lost Alpine summer.
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Is the West poised to enter the war in Ukraine?
The West may soon be forced to stop thinking of its participation in Ukraine as a “special logistical operation”.
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How the Jewish Chronicle lost its way
Inside the fake news crisis at the community paper.
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Starmer resurrects Social Security Minister
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Letter of the week: Mind the gap
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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Labour needs a growth plan
If Keir Starmer’s government seems incapable of delivering change, voters will not hesitate to look elsewhere.
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This England: Christmas comes fir-ly
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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A street rendition of “Wonderwall” sends me to seek sanctuary in a church
Inside London's Notre Dame de France, I find beautiful murals by Jean Cocteau.
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Green Ed’s red rage
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Listening to Debussy at thrash metal volume
One shouldn’t use a fork to scoop ear wax out, but I was getting frantic.
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Letter of the week: Starmer’s rhetoric gap
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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From Rachel Kushner to Mark Rowlands: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Stone Circles by Colin Richards and Vicki Cummings and The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective by…
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Anthony Joseph Q&A: “I’ve collected around 30,000 vinyl records”
The poet on Chris Ofili and a fascination with reality TV.
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A new flat and a new joint life – the dream is no longer a dream
I pled with the universe, God, and any other higher powers I could think of. Finally, M— and I live…
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A digested history of British protein and its strict social hierarchies
The macronutrient has a physiological role as well as a cultural and commercial one.
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Lynn Barber’s conversation pieces
The celebrity interviewer on men speaking over her, her most interesting subject, and entering her ninth decade.
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Carol Vorderman is coming for Labour
From Countdown to unlikely revolutionary – the broadcaster and social media star is a political conundrum.
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How the fight against sleeping sickness was won
We are closer than ever before to consigning the “the colonial disease” to history.
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How to raise taxes
Labour has the political freedom to make unpopular decisions.
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