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Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

More fascinating testing by Steve here:

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Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Haha well when you put it like thaaaat

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Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Haha I'm not sure if there's enough for that!

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Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Very sleep-deprived and surrounded by by-election count detritus, here's the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social podcast on-the-whistle of the Holborn & St Pancras result with @meganekenyon.bsky.social, @benwalker.org.uk and our valiant producers @roblemare.bsky.social and Biba Kang!

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Labour holds Starmer’s seat | The Politics Show

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

In light of the guy wanting to a train an AI to read to his kid, may I propose the counterpoint and repost this ode to reading to children www.newstatesman.com/politics/fut...

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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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Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

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Labour holds Starmer’s seat | The Politics Show

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Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

My column for this week's @newstatesman1913.bsky.social begins with an extortionate Pizza Express pizza and ends with the Spanish snap election. Feat @claire-ainsley.bsky.social's reflections on the centre-left "affordability" dilemma:

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Spain’s warning to Andy Burnham

The Prime Minister must avoid social democracy’s affordability trap

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Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

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Spain’s warning to Andy Burnham

The Prime Minister must avoid social democracy’s affordability trap

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Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Great piece - the intro alone is very striking:

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Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Really interesting cover story this week by Freddie Hayward who reports on how suspicious the Trump administration is of the UK government:

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The suspicious relationship

White House insiders reveal what they really think of Andy Burnham's Britain

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Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Confirmation of a story I mentioned on the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social pod a few weeks ago - shows.acast.com/newstatesman...

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Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Great interview with Jacob Rees-Mogg by @rmcunliffe.bsky.social: bsky.app/profile/rmcu...

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Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

New @newstatesman1913.bsky.social pod - @meganekenyon.bsky.social back from Green Party conference takes us through the Zionism is racism motion row, and talks more widely about where the Greens are at:

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The Green Party’s Zionism reckoning | The Politics Show

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Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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The Green Party’s Zionism reckoning | The Politics Show

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Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Fascinating experiment and thread here - particularly how the BBC News at Six coverage played with people:

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Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“I expect the next general election will be a Labour-Tory fight.” My @newstatesman1913.bsky.social column on how Labour navigates multi-party politics, and warnings of “complacency” about the Reform threat, and tactical voting:

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Labour doesn’t know who it’s fighting any more

Nigel Farage? The Tories? It’s anyone’s guess

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Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

perhaps a baker or candlestick maker then

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Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Fascinating interview by @tommctague.bsky.social with Shabana Mahmood - particularly as she reflects on the kind of dark humour in the conversations her family and community are having about their future: youtu.be/roEkSqEY4Io?...

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Shabana Mahmood interview with Tom McTague | Labour Conference 2026 | The New Statesman

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Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is now out of the paywall and free-to-read!

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Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Catch up on our social care analysis on this day-one pod episode too... All with thanks, as ever, to our talented producers @roblemare.bsky.social and Biba Kang:

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Has Andy Burnham reached his peak? | The Politics Show

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Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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Labour doesn’t know who it’s fighting any more

Nigel Farage? The Tories? It’s anyone’s guess

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Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Perhaps! Some, as quoted in my piece, are not so sure about voters being so malleable

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Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“We can’t be complacent at all just because this bar-chart exists that shows there are more people who are anti-Reform than pro-Reform.” My @newstatesman1913.bsky.social column on how Labour navigates multi-party politics, and warnings of “complacency” when it comes to Reform and tactical voting:

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Labour doesn't know who it's fighting anymore

Nigel Farage? The Tories? It's anyone's guess

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Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Great sketch from @willdunn.bsky.social as always, but I particularly enjoyed the observation that Healey looks like a butcher. He really, really does!

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In Liverpool, the Labour Party hopes for hope

Why can't we just swerve between rage and indifference again?

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Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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Labour doesn't know who it's fighting anymore

Nigel Farage? The Tories? It's anyone's guess

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Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"We're becoming complacent about Reform" My column for this week's @newstatesman1913.bsky.social on rumblings of Reform complacency and wishful thinking about tactical voting at Labour Party conference:

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Labour doesn't know who it's fighting anymore

Nigel Farage? The Tories? It's anyone's guess

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Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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Labour doesn't know who it's fighting anymore

Nigel Farage? The Tories? It's anyone's guess

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This by @anooshc.bsky.social should be required reading for anyone considering a new-build, and also every politician ever www.newstatesman.com/politics/soc...

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Britain’s new-build nightmare

How the dream of home ownership ran into the reality of an under-regulated market.

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Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

From fashion and football to protest and crime, the balaclava is becoming ubiquitous in Britain - my column for this week's @newstatesman1913.bsky.social:

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The rise of balaclava Britain

How the surveillance state created the aesthetic of the 2020s

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Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“If I look back on myself in ten years’ time, or my kids were reading about what I’d done, that’s just not really what I would want them to see.” Great @pronouncedalva.bsky.social interview with a politely savage Darren Jones on the Starmer ousting:

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Darren Jones: “I was asked whether I would call for Keir Starmer to resign”

The former cabinet minister on the dirty deals behind the No 10 takeover, and what Labour should do next

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Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

From fashion and football to protest and crime, the balaclava is becoming ubiquitous in Britain - my column for this week's @newstatesman1913.bsky.social:

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The rise of balaclava Britain

How the surveillance state created the aesthetic of the 2020s

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megan kenyon @meganekenyon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Scoop: Outsourced workers on publicly owned TransPennine Express are to strike during Labour Party Conference in a move designed by the RMT Union to pressure Andy Burnham to fulfil the government’s promise to “end the era of outsourcing by default”. www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

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Rail workers to strike during Labour conference

Outsourced workers on publicly owned TransPennine Express will stage a walk out

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Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“I mean, the point about the bond markets, it holds – in that what I was saying was the country has left itself over-exposed.” Excellent profile of Andy Burnham by @tommctague.bsky.social and our cover story this week - revealing personal and political reflections on his first weeks in the job:

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Andy Burnham seizes control

The Prime Minister on life, fate and his plan to make Britain believe again

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Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

always here for a TLC reference

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dancariad.bsky.social @dancariad.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

@anooshc.bsky.social catching up on the summer issue, please can I congratulate you on the coinage "blood and terroir" nationalism.

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timnewton75.bsky.social @timnewton75.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I grew up in the ’80s, when DEI was just a kind of VOX and you often left your revulsion at Bernard Manning unsaid. Now my three girls can grow up listening to Katie Martin, Helen Lewis, Anoosh Chakelian, Polly Mackenzie and Marina Hyde. Articulate, funny, forensic. Real reasons to be cheerful!

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