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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 21h
I watched every video on the platform by a British political leader – this is what I learned
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TikTok’s irreverent slop was made for Nigel Farage
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 21h
Thirty years after the show was first broadcast, cast and crew recall how it captured working-class life and politics
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Our Friends in the North still speaks to Britain
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 21h
The 2026 Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted author on the perilous mayhem of your twenties and translation as a form of karaoke
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Polly Barton: “Impersonating another can offer not only escape but also a sense of authenticity to oneself”
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Modern authoritarianism may not be as easily recognisable as what came before
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How to spot a fascist
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
This is the Maga White House's latest impotent attempt to prove America’s masculine vitality
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Live streaming an execution is a very Trumpian form of pornography
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Author Dan Wang on America’s existential battle for AI supremacy
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How not to lose the future to China
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
In praise of Winnie-the-Pooh's idleness, by @anooshc.bsky.social . AA Milne’s world is enchantingly empty of the philosophies we have spent the last hundred years reading into it.
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In praise of Winnie-the-Pooh's idleness
AA Milne’s world is enchantingly empty of the philosophies we have spent the last hundred years reading into it
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
In the weeks ahead, the party needs to come together, to work to show everyone, especially Jewish people, that our party is safe for them; and to make our party’s internal processes more representative and effective. @CarolineLucas.bsky.social's diary: The "Zionism is racism" fallout
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The "Zionism is racism" fallout
It was Green on Green at party conference
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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 · 14/10/2026
When it comes to the government beyond Downing Street, the cabinet leans pro-European. But even so, a number of senior ministers are highly sceptical about Burnham’s decision to open up the issue. The logic of Burnham's EU mission
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The logic of Burnham's EU mission
Burnham’s course correction finally frees his MPs to address the disasters of Brexit
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Next year is going to be hotter and, for you and everyone you know, dearer
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Prepare for a hot El Niño summer
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Steven Pinker: "Something that's arbitrary can be highly rational" The cognitive psychologist on violence, the Enlightenment and the reasons we never say what we mean
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Steven Pinker: "Something that's arbitrary can be highly rational"
The cognitive psychologist on violence, the Enlightenment and the reasons we never say what we mean
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
His Booker-shortlisted epic confronts homophobia, AIDS and violence with exhilarating force
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Marlon James’s brutal reckoning with Jamaica’s past
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The Prime Minister has proven he can reunite Labour's 2024 coalition – but he has more work to do
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The end of Andy Burnham’s beginning
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The sport's oldest competition has been stumped by modernity
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What we forget when we forget county cricket
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Over 20 million people in the UK live with a musculoskeletal condition. Arthritis UK looks at how to tackle the UK’s burden of pain, unequal access to treatment, and how to improve care for people living with such conditions. #sponsored
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Arthritis: tackling the UK’s burden of pain
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Exclusive polling reveals residents rejected the Greens in order "not to undermine the Labour government"
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What Holborn and St Pancras voters wanted
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Jacqueline Rose: Confessions of a dissident Jew
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Over 20 million people in the UK live with a musculoskeletal condition. Arthritis UK looks at how to tackle the UK’s burden of pain, unequal access to treatment, and how to improve care for people living with such conditions. #sponsored
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Arthritis: tackling the UK’s burden of pain
A report on how the care and management of arthritis and musculoskeletal conditions could be transformed and unlock economic and social progress.
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
How to eat well during a national disaster, by Finn McRedmond
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Could I survive the apocalypse?
How to eat well during a national disaster
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Zack Polanski can't simply blame Andy Burnham – his brand is more toxic than it used to be, writes @benwalker.org.uk
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Why the Greens lost
Zack Polanski can't simply blame Andy Burnham – his brand is more toxic than it used to be
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
His defeat in Holborn and St Pancras will be read by internal critics as a failure of leadership and strategy, writes @meganekenyon.bsky.social
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Zack Polanski will have questions to answer
His defeat in Holborn and St Pancras will be read by internal critics as a failure of leadership and strategy
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The Green Party has urgent work to do, writes @carolinelucas.bsky.social The "Zionism is racism" motion crossed a very significant red line
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The Green Party has urgent work to do
The "Zionism is racism" motion crossed a very significant red line
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
From advanced manufacturing and AI to defence and satellite technology, UKSpace looks at how the UK can build on its regional space clusters to turn technological strengths into long-term economic growth. #sponsored
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Space is an engine of UK growth and industry
We have a strategic economic opportunity for our regions and nations
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
From advanced manufacturing and AI to defence and satellite technology, UKSpace looks at how the UK can build on its regional space clusters to turn technological strengths into long-term economic growth. #sponsored
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Space is an engine of UK growth and industry
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Beneath the violence and instability that afflict the region lies not religion but a loss of sovereignty
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What is to blame for the Middle East?
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Archer's first-hand knowledge of roguery makes for entertaining reading
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Did Jeffrey Archer ever write a good novel?
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The Prime Minister must avoid social democracy’s affordability trap
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Spain’s warning to Andy Burnham
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
As prisoners in Louisiana, we watch as executions return to death row
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In Trump’s America, the death penalty has been resurrected
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The early MeToo mantra of “Believe Women” has become something to mock or reject. If Pelicot has become the saint of sexual assault victims, Doe has been cast as their sinner. Faye Curran: Was Cornell's Jane Doe a victim or sinner?
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Was Cornell's Jane Doe a victim or sinner?
Anti-feminists believe her rape allegations prove them right
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Prime Minister must avoid social democracy’s affordability trap
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Spain’s warning to Andy Burnham
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If this was a moment for Polanski to show leadership, he has failed:
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The Greens' Zionism vote was truly offensive – but it also seems pointless
If this was a moment for Polanski to show leadership, he has failed
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Conservatives reckon they have found one promising electoral honey hole in young and affluent – or soon-to-be-affluent – voters. Those who have benefited from the Bank of Mum and Dad will soon, Conservatives hope, return. Ethan Croft: The Conservative Party is going duck hunting
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The Conservative Party is going duck hunting
They believe young and affluent voters will be their salvation
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
There is cause for alarm, one biosecurity expert told the NS, but not for the reasons you think
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The mysterious death of a plague researcher in Siberia
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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 · 06/10/2026
This conference season, MPs are tilting at windmills
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Black labs and no-go zones: how politicians lost the plot
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“Well of course, you know about Jeffrey Archer don’t you?” From the archive: Jeffrey Archer's moment of truth, by John Merritt
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From the archive: Jeffrey Archer's moment of truth
October 1986: The ethics of Jeffrey Archer – and his pursuers
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
He is a symptom of the party's malaise, not its cure, writes Ethan Croft
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Can Jeremy Clarkson save the Conservative Party?
He is a symptom of the party's malaise, not its cure
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Tory grandee tells @rmcunliffe.bsky.social, "you don't win arguments by hiding away"
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“Why would anyone try to defend Hitler?”: Jacob Rees-Mogg takes on Tucker Carlson
The Tory grandee believes "you don't win arguments by hiding away"
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The President appears to be bored by his duties, writes Freddie Hayward
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Donald Trump is sick of his job
The President appears to be bored by his duties
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Adrian Ramsay said the motion describing Zionism as racism "doesn't reflect longstanding Green principles"
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Former Green leader: I am “deeply upset” by Zionism vote
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Its appeal is in the forging of memory as much as the story itself, writes @rmcunliffe.bsky.social
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The magic of reading to children
Its appeal is in the forging of memory as much as the story itself
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Cline’s new novel Switzy follows a wealthy man’s last days as he heads to a euthanasia clinic, writes Abhrajyoti Chakraborty
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Emma Cline and the perverse silence of dying
Cline’s new novel Switzy follows a wealthy man’s last days as he heads to a euthanasia clinic
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
AI is returning us to an era of demons and gods, writes John Gray www.newstatesman.com/techno...
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
There’s big trouble in Little Portugal... @finnmcredmond.bsky.social's Silver Spoon: Salted cod and sandwiches doused in gravy?
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There’s big trouble in Little Portugal
Salted cod and sandwiches doused in gravy?
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
These people are not the nice, polite kind of crackhead... Nicholas Lezard is Down and Out:
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My life is tough, but at least there isn’t a crack den on my street
And these people are not the nice, polite kind of crackhead
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
May We Feed the King is Rebecca Perry’s debut novel, now shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Medieval masculinity under the microscope:
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Medieval masculinity under the microscope
Rebecca Perry's May We Feed the King asks how much stillness a novel can hold
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Greens have never been so popular. But a by-election defeat compounded by a chaotic conference might undo it all
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Zack Polanski’s year of magical thinking
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
One day a year, the countryside comes to the City of London
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Sheep will be provided
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If the national id is no longer captured by Cowell’s trademark snarl, or Anton Du Bec’s veneers – if Britain is no longer a nation of wannabe pop stars (individualistic ambition) or amateur celeb tap dancers (midwit escapism) – then what is it? @finn_mcredmond: Celebrity Traitors has tamed us all
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Celebrity Traitors has tamed our national id
The show's cultural dominance proves that we are all deferential homebodies
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