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Emily Lawford

@emilylawford.bsky.social
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Online editor at the New Statesman

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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 · 16/09/2026
Two signs mark the entrance to Piddington, east Oxfordshire. “I AM SPARTACUS. YOU ARE SPARTACUS. WE ARE SPARTACUS,” reads one in blue and yellow letters. The other leans on a fence, bearing the words: “The Village That Roars.” @emilylawford.bsky.social: Piddington's Treason
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Piddington's treason
Meet the Oxfordshire villagers rebelling against Britain's asylum policy
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The "party of free speech" strikes again
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Emily Lawford @emilylawford.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Exclusive: Arron Banks directed private investigators to look into Sunday Times journalist Gabriel Pogrund after his reporting on Farage’s finances www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
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Exclusive: Brexit “bad boy” Arron Banks launched secret probe into Sunday Times star reporter
The prominent Reform member paid investigators to look into Gabriel Pogrund after his reporting on Nigel Farage's finances
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Emily Lawford @emilylawford.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I wrote about the new Johnny Depp’s, and what his rehabilitation reveals about Me Too
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Emily Lawford @emilylawford.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Brilliant reporting by @sarahelizacollins.bsky.social
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Sarah Collins @sarahelizacollins.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Jury is still out on whether Burnham, or any British politician, will be capable of doing the hard work of actually listening...
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Emily Lawford @emilylawford.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Brilliant reporting of an appalling system by @anooshc.bsky.social
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Will Dunn @willdunn.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
This piece is an unalloyed pleasure from start to finish. It will brighten your afternoon!
"please don't write that we're all mad old white people"
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Emily Lawford @emilylawford.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
For This England, I joined the Rejoin Ramblers on their long walk to Brussels www.newstatesman.com/this-england...
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EU again?
Rejoiners trek to Brussels in search of redemption
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Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
A tale of Two Deprivations - my piece on fascinating analysis of the local election results that finds two very different Broken Britains. With thanks to Chris Clarke, and Citizens Advice:
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Alarm clock Britain: a tale of two deprivations
Different kinds of deprivation fuel Reform and the Greens
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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
This is a very interesting and poignant piece. To me in touches on something interesting : the left are often chastised as being too puritanical and therefore inaccessible compared to the right. Which might be true, but it means the latter ends up becoming increasingly incoherent and manic
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Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
As every party has a tricky coalition to hold together, the great @emilylawford.bsky.social finds the same at Tommy Robinson's demo - a confused and chaotic union of self-styled christians and EDL-styled cokeheads:
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Cokeheads and Christians: a day at Tommy Robinson's rally
In the mad world of the British far right, faith and thuggery jostle for attention
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Emily Lawford @emilylawford.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Sadiq Khan tells @anooshc.bsky.social what Starmer and Reeves get wrong about Britain
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Will Dunn @willdunn.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Follow my colleague @meganekenyon.bsky.social for live updates on this weekend's festival of recrimination and backstabbing www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
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Tracked: the Labour MPs calling for Keir Starmer to go
Read their statements on the Prime Minister's future
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Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
The British Jews of Golders Green – whose grandparents sought sanctuary in Britain from the Nazis, whose parents sought sanctuary in suburbia further up the Northern Line – no longer seem to find sanctuary in mainstream British political life.
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Terror in Golders Green
Jews in north London feel betrayed by a Britain that was once a sanctuary
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Emily Lawford @emilylawford.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Brilliant, moving column by @rmcunliffe.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/politics/soc...
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We are under attack
Britain's Jews are only asking one question now. Where next?
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Emily Lawford @emilylawford.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
I interviewed Amu Gib, the Palestine hunger striker standing in the local elections from prison www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
The Backlash is back! With reads on progressive women, Louis Theroux (kind of), the media’s blind eye, women voters in India & UK maternal deaths. And links to great stuff by @emilylawford.bsky.social @natashawalter.bsky.social @drpragyaagarwal.bsky.social thebacklash.substack.com/p/understand...
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Understandable rage, blind eyes, and a problem like Louis
Five reads on gender (in)equality and the backlash against feminism
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Will Dunn @willdunn.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
"I want to be an instrument of the revolution": superb reporting on the fury of young women by @emilylawford.bsky.social in this week's New Statesman cover story, on newsstands today: www.newstatesman.com/cover-story/...
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Meet the Angry Young Women
Across Britain a radical new feminism is rising
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Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Eye-opening, original, and humane but searching reporting by the great @emilylawford.bsky.social on the "femosphere":
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Meet the Angry Young Women
Across Britain a radical new feminism is rising
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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
We spend a lot of time in politics discussing why angry young men have turned to the right and what can be done about it. What about the angry young women turning to the left? @emilylawford.bsky.social went to find out www.newstatesman.com/cover-story/...
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Meet the Angry Young Women
Across Britain a radical new feminism is rising
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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Hatzola is still operating, ready to serve the whole north London community, regardless of what god they may or may not believe in. “To save a life is to save a world.” www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
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Emily Lawford @emilylawford.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Brilliant reporting by Anoosh as always
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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Some personal news: after 17 wonderful years at the New Statesman I’ve decided it’s time for something new. Grateful to brilliant colleagues past and present. Here’s my farewell column from this week’s magazine. www.newstatesman.com/comment/2026...
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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
great piece that makes me almost nostalgic for years of hanging around on (non-royal) doorsteps in the rain with journalism's most world weary people, snappers
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Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
“They’re all sycophant, sycophant, sycophant on air, and then off air, ‘twat, twat, twat’.” Brilliant piece by @emilylawford.bsky.social on the royal media circus:
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On the hunt for Prince Andrew
Outside Sandringham, the British press had scented blood
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Emily Lawford @emilylawford.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
For the New Statesman’s “This England” section I went to Bicester Village www.newstatesman.com/this-england...
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In Bicester Village, England is for sale
The outlet is the second most popular attraction for Chinese tourists visiting the UK
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Emily Lawford @emilylawford.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Pornhub is restricting UK users. I wrote about the harm it’s already done www.newstatesman.com/politics/soc...
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Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Everything I've learned from life on the frontline of Britain's housebuilding slump - my latest @newstatesman1913.bsky.social column:
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Britain’s housebuilding crisis on my block
Building work on the estate I live in was supposed to take two years – it’s now in its fifth
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Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Excellent reporting by @emilylawford.bsky.social on the movement changing the anti-immigration agenda from an argument about "state capacity and fairness to the threat of violence to women":
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The march of the Pink Ladies
Groups of pink-clad women protesting outside asylum hotels say they are standing against sexual violence by asylum seekers
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
NEW When should social media posts have legal consequences? Comparing and contrasting the cases of Lucy Connolly and Alaa Abd El-Fattah By me, at @newstatesman1913.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/politics/soc...
It is not easy to reconcile Badenoch’s respective statements about the Connolly and Abd El-Fattah cases. But she is not alone. Many people will say Connolly should have been convicted but Abd El-Fattah should not face sanction, and many will have the opposite view. Few will say both should have the protection of free speech, and few will say that both should suffer legal consequences.

In today’s hyper-partisan political culture, a common position is “free speech for me, but not for thee”. Those claiming the benefit of the right to free expression often make grand declarations against censorship and so on, while simultaneously nodding along with prohibitions and sanctions on others.
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Emily Lawford @emilylawford.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
@samuelmarclowe.bsky.social can you follow me back so I can DM you?
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Well this is rather delicious from @emilylawford.bsky.social on being mansplained to about the roots of sexism by the Revolutionary Communist Party www.newstatesman.com/politics/the...
"I don't know if you've heard of the beginning of the oppression of women," he began. I said I hadn't. This delighted him.
"In the early days, as Engels said, everyone
'lived frivolously' - everyone fucked." He looked wistful. "It was only with the start of class society we started producing a surplus, and men wanted to pass their surplus on to their children. So they couldn't let women sleep around." It all came down to who's inheriting your wealth. "You have to know your children are yours." He shook his head.
"It blew my mind."
The idea that class is the root of sexism - as opposed to, say, I don't know, men - is the sort of thing revolutionary communists like.
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Phil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Very funny report of the 'Battle of Ideas' by @emilylawford.bsky.social Particularly entertained to read some definitely accurate pronouncements from Reform's in-house genius James Orr, and that an English civil war is still just around the corner. www.newstatesman.com/politics/the...
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On the front line in the Battle of Ideas
At the free speech festival, people were prophesying a race-fuelled civil war
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Emily Lawford @emilylawford.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
I went on a Border Force patrol with immigration minister Mike Tapp for the New Statesman www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
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Sarah Collins @sarahelizacollins.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Really happy to have signed with @annapallai.bsky.social. Hopefully exciting projects ahead www.ampliterary.co.uk/about-1-1
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SARAH COLLINS | ampliterary
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 12/07/2025
With the pressure to be political at Glastonbury in front of a sea of Palestine flags, it was almost odd when some artists avoided the topic, writes @emilylawford.bsky.social. www.prospectmagazine...
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Bob Vylan, Kneecap and the politics of Glastonbury
The police have got involved after this year’s festival. Here’s what it was like to be there
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 16/07/2025
Our summer double issue has just hit newsstands! Here’s a preview of what’s inside... 🧵 For our cover story, @oliverbullough.bsky.social details how water privatisation has left us with leaky pipes, sewage spills and rivers not fit to swim in: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/enviro...
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Emily Lawford @emilylawford.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Thrilled to be selected as a winner of this year’s 30 to Watch award!
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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
"In the pod, there’s a red button. This is what you’d press to die. What a crazy way to go, is all I can think. Nitschke’s face looms outside the plastic windows" A fantastic piece by @emilylawford.bsky.social from our new issue @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good...
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My appointment with Dr Death
Philip Nitschke facilitated the world’s first legal assisted suicides in the 1990s. But is he the best advocate for the cause he so believes in?
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Emily Lawford @emilylawford.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
For our new magazine, I profiled Philip Nitschke - aka “Dr Death” - who facilitated the first ever assisted suicides in the 1990s and has spent the rest of his life inventing new ways to die www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good...
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Emily Lawford @emilylawford.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
I reviewed Sayaka Murata's Vanishing World - where all babies are conceived by IVF and pretty much no one has sex - for The Times www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
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‘Fictosexuality’ and artificial wombs — our dystopian future
In her novel Vanishing World, Sayaka Murata, the author of the bestselling Convenience Store Woman, imagines a sexless society where all babies are conceived in laboratories
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Madeleine @empressofbyzantium.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
I’ve finally bitten the bullet & started a #substack! I’ll write pieces related to Byzantine studies & history, reviews, tips+tricks, and art. This first essay is personal, outlining some feelings about Doing History. #historybluesky #byzantinebluesky empressofbyzantium.substack.com/p/bad-histor...
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Bad History
A short meditation on living the past.
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 21/03/2025
If you’re watching Netflix’s Adolescence, it’s a great time to revisit @emilylawford.bsky.social’s deep dive into the radicalisation of young men in the online “manosphere” from our November 2024 issue. www.prospectmagazine...
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The incel trap
Angry and lonely young men can easily enter a web of hatred against women online. Is there a way out?
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Emily Lawford @emilylawford.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
I reviewed Róisín Lanigan's funny and haunting book about the horrors of renting in London www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
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Ellen Halliday @ellenhalliday.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
This never happens. The @prospectmagazine.co.uk paywall is down until 7pm GMT tomorrow, so head over our site to read for free @arusbridger.bsky.social
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Emily Lawford @emilylawford.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
For Prospect, I interviewed Ingrid Newkirk, the founder of Peta, about why she's happy to be disruptive for animal rights: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/views/people...
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Peta founder Ingrid Newkirk: ‘The press wants something sexy’
The campaigner on her favourite stunts—and why she’s still fighting for animal rights
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 22/12/2024
“In a group that’s supposed to be for discussion of the rights of men, they spend 90 per cent of the time talking about what women are doing”, said Harry. @emilylawford.bsky.social met some incels and men’s rights activists www.prospectmagazine...
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The incel trap
Angry and lonely young men can easily enter a web of hatred against women online. Is there a way out?
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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Co-hosting the @prospectmagazine.co.uk pod with @ellenhalliday.bsky.social has been one of the most unexpected (and fun) parts of my now not-so-new job, and our final episode of the 2024 was particularly fun to put together /1 shows.acast.com/cf7520d4-c0d...
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Predictions: the biggest stories of 2025 | The Prospect Interview
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