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 Democrats’ appalling judgement
By sticking with Joe Biden, the party has shown how arrogant and out of touch it is.
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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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The NS Poem: To the Pavement
A new poem by Mark Granier.
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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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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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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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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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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 culture…
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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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Sunak’s honours list faces a Starmer peer review
Your weekly dose of gossip from the campaign trail.
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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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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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Letter of the week: Missions without omission
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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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, I…
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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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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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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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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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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 its…
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