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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
FOOL BRITANNIA by Ed Conway Britain's economy is ready to blow. Our short-sighted pursuit of cheap goods over national security has left us dangerously exposed. In his first Budget, John Healey faces a series of painful dilemmas that Britain can no longer avoid. www.newstatesman.com/politi...
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
THE SUSPICIOUS RELATIONSHIP by Freddie Hayward In this week's cover story, White House insiders reveal what they really think of Andy Burnham’s Britain. Cover art by Cracked Hat. www.newstatesman.com/world/...
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
SUNSHINE AND RAIN: Can Labour weather the coming economic storm? Inside: Ethan Croft on Burnham's vision for Britain's future @willdunn.bsky.social: In Liverpool, the Labour Party hopes for hope @emilylawford.bsky.social meets Patricia Lockwood Cover art by André Carrilho
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
LABOUR CONFERENCE: Watch @darrenpjones.bsky.social in conversation with @pronouncedalva.bsky.social tomorrow at the Pilotage Building.
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A SENSE OF POWER by Tom McTague The Prime Minister on life, fate and his plan to make Britain believe again Read the cover story: www.newstatesman.com/cover-...
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
WILL AI KILL US ALL? by @willdunn.bsky.social There has never been so much money in the apocalypse business. Read the cover story: www.newstatesman.com/busine...
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Trump’s “evil” is a “slick, charming recklessness” Rory Stewart joins us on the latest episode of The Exchange. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
BATTLE FOR POWER Inside the fight for the future of the Labour Party, by Ailbhe Rea. Read this week's cover: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Why Keir Starmer has gone to war with Elon Musk No 10 rejects the techno-libertarian worldview and knows the public is on its side 📫 Today’s Morning Call, with @georgeeaton.bsky.social
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
EXPOSED: BRITAIN'S NEXT MATERNITY SCANDAL BY @hannahsbee.bsky.social
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
NO MORE KINGS by Will Lloyd Why we should abolish the monarchy.
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
DOOM LOOP by Andrew Marr I thought Labour would fix everything. I was wrong. Britain has become ungovernable.
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
THE EMPEROR by Freddie Hayward The ceasefire deal has revealed a world in which Trump rules like an emperor. Leaders court his favour. Institutions are ignored. Diplomacy is personal. Raw power dominates international law. It is a world of force, power, money and connections.
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
LIFE AND FATE by Sondos Sabra A three-month diary of anguish, famine and horror, made under bombardment in Gaza City:
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Nigel Farage is now tied with Keir Starmer as “best prime minister” An exclusive Ipsos survey shows the Reform leader is level with his Labour opponent for the first time. 📫 Today’s Morning Call, with @georgeeaton.bsky.social
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
EXCLUSIVE: ANDY BURNHAM’S PLAN FOR BRITAIN by @tommctague.bsky.social
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
CAN ZOHRAN MAMDANI SAVE THE LEFT? By Ross Barkan UK EXCLUSIVE: On the campaign trail with New York’s new star This week's cover story:
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
THE GENTLE PARENT TRAP Online, primary school teachers complain about the legacy of the modern “gentle parenting” style. Discipline is going down the pan, they say, as kids turn everything into an endless negotiation: how will these people cope with the world? By Kate Mossman
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
THE SUMMER SPECIAL by @newstatesman.com 📔 @helenlewis.bsky.social writes the diary 🕴️@lewisgoodall.com gives Keir Starmer Japanese lessons 🔴Jonathan Dimbleby: The Palestinians
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Kemi Badenoch isn't working. This week's cover story:
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
What teenagers can teach us about love Lamorna Ash: Talking to young people aged 11 to 14 about matters of the heart, I heard a lifetime’s worth of romantic wisdom.
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Jonathan Sumption writes for the New Statesman
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
ROBERT JENRICK: THE HARBINGER Read the first exclusive profile of Robert Jenrick. Online now, on newsstands Thursday. Link below.
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
JUST RAISE TAX After last night’s U-turn, Rachel Reeves cannot tweak her way out of this crisis. The system must be torn down.
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
EXCLUSIVE: For new editor of the New Statesman Tom McTague's first edition, he went on the road with Keir Starmer, discovering a man far more emotional than I expected, struggling to articulate his deepest emotions — and those of the country he leads.
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
This week's cover: The Housing Trap, by Anoosh Chakelian Inside: 🔴 @JillFilipovic.bsky.social on Trump's crypto hustle 🔴 Gaza's tipping point 🔴 Andrew Marr on skint Britain
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Austerity’s Children – a special issue of Spotlight, the New Statesman’s policy supplement, guest edited by Gordon Brown. Inside: 🔴Alison McGovern 🔴Rachel de Souza 🔴Mike Brewer 🔴Tom Clark 🔴Harry Quilter-Pinner 🔴and more
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Britain's Child Poverty Epidemic, a special issue guest edited by Gordon Brown Inside: 🔴 David Tennant on community, faith and inequality 🔴@aiannucci.bsky.social on the death of nuance 🔴 Terri White on our schools' lost children 🔴 Jamie Oliver on the battle for breakfasts
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
The cover: Why George Osborne still runs Britain By @willdunn.bsky.social ydunn Also inside: 🔴 Kate Mossman meets Gordon Brown 🔴 @hannahsbee.bsky.social on birth trauma 🔴 @georgeeaton.bsky.social: How Labour learned to love immigration control 🔴 Tom Cruise's ego trip 🔴 The end of privacy
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
This week's cover: The Peace Delusion, by Jeremy Bowen Inside: 🔴 Andrew Marr: How Labour can beat Reform 🔴 David Attenborough on our debt to the oceans 🔴 @jillfilipovic.bsky.social: Unhappy America
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
📟 Alison Phillips on the BBC report:
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
This week's cover: The War on Whitehall How civil servants became the enemy. By William Davies. Also inside: 🖊️ Andrew Marr & Colin Kidd on Nigel Farage 🖊️ Kate Mossman on the art of listening
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
In this issue of Spotlight, we consider the impact of energy and climate policy. With expert analysis from Miatta Fahnbulleh, Adrian Ramsay, Dale Vince and Andrew Bowie. www.newstatesman.com/wp-con...
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
🖊️ @finn_mcredmond on Pope Francis:
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
This week's cover: Divide and Conquer How Trump's trade war with China will remake the world. 🖊️ Andrew Marr & @willdunn.bsky.social Inside: • @finnmcredmond.bsky.social on Pope Francis's legacy • @rmcunliffe.bsky.social on Reform's bid for power • The truth about Britain's white working class
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
The New Statesman Spring edition is out now! Including Andrew Marr on the Russians and us, Julian Barnes on why he is moving left in old age and Frances Wilson on the dark side of the Moomins. Try your first 5 issues for only £5. Subscribe now: secure.newstatesman.com/I5C...
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Spring Special Inside: 🖊️ Gary Younge 🖊️ Julian Barnes 🖊️ Eimear McBride 🖊️ Ian Leslie 🖊️ Graydon Carter
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
This week's cover: What is school for? 🍎 Pippa Bailey on the battle for the soul of English education. Also inside: - Andrew Marr on Starmer under siege - @jillfilipovic.bsky.social on Trump 2028 - Frank Skinner in the diary
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Putin's Endgame This week's cover: How the Kremlin is using Trump to win the war in Ukraine. By @katiestallard.bsky.social Inside: - Andrew Marr on the peacekeeper problem - @pennyred.bsky.social: Adolescence should not shock us - Britain's special needs trap - In search of Yoko Ono
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
This week's cover: The Golden Age Economic chaos. Slumping polls. Republican discord. How Trump's spell was broken. 🖊️ By Freddie Hayward Also: - @georgeeaton.bsky.social on Labour's welfare wars - Deborah Levy on the Beatles' brilliant friendship - Nato on the brink
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
This week's cover: Why Britain Isn't Working How the benefits system became a danger to the economy and a battleground for Labour, by @willdunn.bsky.social. Inside: • Andrew Marr on Starmer's collision course • @hannahsbee.bsky.social on the BBC's self-sabotage
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
This week’s cover: The Fall Out A special issue on Europe’s reckoning: 🔴 Jeremy Bowen 🔴 Andrew Marr 🔴 John Gray 🔴 Kim Darroch 🔴 @jillfilipovic.bsky.social on Andrew Tate
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
This week's cover: Britain in Trump's world The fate of the special relationship in a new global order, by Andrew Marr. Inside: 🗣️ Freddie Hayward meets Steve Bannon 🗣️ Finn McRedmond meets Ash Sarkar 📕 Anna Leszkiewicz on Curtis Sittenfeld
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
This week's cover: Europe Alone Abandoned by America, can Britain and its allies save Ukraine - and themselves? 🖊️ @ldfreedman.bsky.social Inside: • @annettedittert.bsky.social on the rise AfD • @kimleadbeatermp.bsky.social interviewed • @davidgauke.bsky.social on the prison populism
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
This week's cover: The Reformation, by Andrew Marr. Inside: - @georgeeaton.bsky.social: Maurice Glasman and the return of Blue Labour - Tom Holland on the Caesars - @hannahsbee.bsky.social meets Katharine Birbalsingh - @carolinelucas.bsky.social: what climate activism gets wrong
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
This week's cover: The new Gods of AI China, the US and the battle to control the future. 🖊️ @brunomacaes.bsky.social Inside: 🪖 Andrew Marr on defenceless Britain 🩺 @hannahsbee.bsky.social on healthcare’s risk problem 🍿 Tanya Gold on Bridget Jones’s empty feminism
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
This week’s cover: Class War How Labour could win the battle over private education, with Francis Green and David Kynaston. Inside: Andrew Marr on the Nazis and us Lily Lynch on Trump’s Florida project @willdunn.bsky.social on Bill Gates @finnmcredmond.bsky.social on social media & food
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