The officer class is swelling Labour’s ranks
Your weekly dose of gossip from the campaign trail.
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Breaking sugar’s hold makes culinary pleasures even sweeter
Having reset my relationship with sugary food, I’m no longer led by my sweet tooth.
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Letter of the week: The joys of spring
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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Teenagers don’t need mandatory national service: politicians do
With citizenship training for MPs, the Commons would see a marked improvement, as would our response to crises.
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Waging lawfare against Trump will not end well for Democrats
Progressives must speak out against partiality in the legal process and the endless persecution of the former president.
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Keir Starmer’s promise of stability will come back to haunt him
With Britain in ruins, change without disruption means no change at all.
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What if the polls are right?
A Labour landslide could change the politics of a future Keir Starmer government.
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Kemi Badenoch and the legal definition of sex
The presumptive front-runner for the next Conservative leadership contest has been unfairly vilified.
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Britain’s gentle revolution
Labour has benefited from years of Tory misrule, but does it have the capacity to deliver national renewal?
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What the West gets wrong about the war in Ukraine
If Kyiv’s allies had identified Putin’s invasion as an act of colonisation, they might have won more support from the…
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From Iain Sinclair to Colombe Schneck: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Going Home by Tom Lamont and The Roads to Rome by Catherine Fletcher.
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There is no cultural armada behind today’s left
Our artistic consumption has become divorced from our political imagination.
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The seismic radicalism of Nigel Farage
Liberals and mainstream Conservatives loathe him. But he understands something important about the fractious mood in the country.
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Love, loathing and Lucian Freud
Rose Boyt’s memoir of her controlling father reveals a relationship defined by cruelty and shame.
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The left power list 2024
The 50 most influential people shaping Britain’s progressive politics.
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The Born in the USA fallacy
Forty years ago Bruce Springsteen’s bleak portrait of America’s discarded working class was miscast as a patriotic anthem.
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John Burnside’s soul music
The late poet, novelist and New Statesman columnist was equally attuned to the natural world and what lies beyond it.
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Wigan’s underdog spirit
A northern takeover of Wembley, a D-Day tribute, and the greatest try ever.
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The insular world of Rachel Cusk
The novelist’s fans revere her ruthless restraint – but in Parade it leads to a narrative dead end.
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I’m good in a crisis, but not if that crisis is a lost passport
I am off on a travel-writing gig to e-bike in Lower Silesia, or at least I am meant to be…
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