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Hannah Barnes

@hannahsbee.bsky.social
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Associate Editor & Writer @NewStatesman; Author, Baillie Gifford & Orwell shortlisted “Time to Think” bit.ly/TimetoThinkBook; Formerly @bbcnewsnight

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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Hannah Barnes: We need a culture change in maternity services There is something bigger going on than just staff shortages, low morale or lack of funding. @hannahsbee.bsky.social
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We need a culture change in maternity services
There is something bigger going on than just staff shortages, low morale or lack of funding.
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
The Health Secretary has vowed to overhaul the NHS’s most scandalous service. 🖊️ @hannahsbee.bsky.social: Wes Streeting’s maternity revolution
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Wes Streeting’s maternity revolution
The Health Secretary has vowed to overhaul the NHS’s most scandalous service.
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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 · 03/05/2025
Hannah Barnes: The assisted dying impact assessment resolves nothing The government’s review promises to address concerns about the bill – but only raises new ones. 🖊️ @hannahsbee.bsky.social
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The assisted dying impact assessment resolves nothing
The government’s review promises to address concerns about the bill – but only raises new ones.
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
"Giving birth in England is not safe. Half of all maternity units are rated either inadequate or requiring improvement." 🖊️ @hannahsbee.bsky.social: The birth trauma taboo
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The birth trauma taboo
Theo Clarke’s book paints a damning picture of Britain’s failing maternity services. Change cannot come soon enough.
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ianpace.bsky.social @ianpace.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Essential reading from @hannahsbee.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/comment/2025...
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Labour’s cynical shift on biological sex
The party is attempting to rewrite history.
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Hannah Barnes @hannahsbee.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
NEW: Labour MP Naz Shah tells me: “The assisted dying bill is not fit for purpose”. Having been through the legislation line-by-line, Shah says it contains many ‘loopholes’, harms women, fails to provide a safety net & is weaker now than at Second Reading www.newstatesman.com/politics/soc...
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Naz Shah: “The assisted dying bill is not fit for purpose”
The Labour MP and scrutiny committee member on why she fears the consequences if end-of-life proposals become law.
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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
So the Telegraph has a feature on the Exclusive Brethren which seems to borrow rather a lot from this (outstanding, in my view) New Statesman cover story by my amazing colleague Pippa Bailey. If you fancy reading the original (and much better) source material... www.newstatesman.com/long-reads/2...
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Escaping Eden
For those who leave the Exclusive Brethren sect, separation comes at great personal cost.
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Phil Whitaker @pwhitakerwriter.medsky.social · 27/02/2025
Me and the ever perspicacious Andrew Marr and @hannahsbee.bsky.social on the @newstatesman.com Politics podcast, discussing the resignation of NHS England CEO Amanda Pritchard, and what it tells us about the way out of the NHS crisis. From 16.00mins open.spotify.com/episode/5hma...
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Andrew Marr: "National service, watch this space"
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Our overdiagnosis epidemic “The line between mental disorder and normal diversity has become increasingly blurred.” 🖊️ @hannahsbee.bsky.social
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Our overdiagnosis epidemic
How a marked rise in the treatment of certain conditions – physical and mental – is harming, not protecting, public health.
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Maggie McTernan @maggsmct.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Lovely piece by @hannahsbee.bsky.social on the value of female friends - that’s you @katrinamurraymp.bsky.social @anicerioja.bsky.social ❤️
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
An ode to female friendships, by @hannahsbee.bsky.social
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An ode to female friendships
From Elena Ferrante to Amandaland, the power of brilliant friends is rightly celebrated.
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Hannah Barnes @hannahsbee.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
“Any remaining doubts of the barbarity that underpins Hamas were dispelled by the events of 20 February.” Me on the horror of Hamas’s parade of hostage coffins for @newstatesman.com www.newstatesman.com/comment/2025...
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The horror of Hamas’s parade of hostage coffins
The bodies of hostages taken on 7 October were returned to Israel in a disturbing spectacle.
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
The Do No Harm dilemma What happens when a drug that can save lives could also ruin them? By @hannahsbee.bsky.social
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The Do No Harm dilemma
What happens when a drug that can save lives could also ruin them?
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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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Hannah Barnes @hannahsbee.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Honoured to be among the great and good of political podcasting. Thanks so much!
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
The revenge of the middle-class, middle-aged women The response to Gregg Wallace’s comments marks a turning point. @hannahsbee.bsky.social on Gregg Wallace www.newstatesman.com/comment/2024...
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The revenge of the middle-class, middle-aged women
The response to Gregg Wallace’s comments marks a turning point.
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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Making sense of the missions with @hannahsbee.bsky.social and me on the @newstatesman.com podcast: former Blair advisor Peter Hyman, who helped Keir Starmer come up with them and had some fascinating things to say about how Whitehall is(n’t) working www.newstatesman.com/podcasts/pol...
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Keir Starmer is right: the "paranoid" civil service does need change
Keir Starmer's former advisor, Peter Hyman, calls for dramatic Whitehall reform.
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Prof Gráinne McKeever @mckeevergrainne.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Haven't seen very much discussion here on last week's Supreme Court case brought by For Women Scotland but @hannahsbee.bsky.social gives a useful commentary in @newstatesman.com on the core arguments from the applicants and the Scottish Govt: www.newstatesman.com/comment/2024...
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The Scottish government is ignoring women’s rights
A hearing at the Supreme Court exposed just how flawed its position on gender recognition is.
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Kingmakers of the album charts How Banquet became the UK's most influential record store. By @hannahsbee.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/culture/musi...
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Kingmakers of the album charts
How Banquet became the UK's most influential record store.
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Hannah Barnes @hannahsbee.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Jason Cowley gave me my first role in print journalism in January. He’s afforded me enormous freedom and unstinting support, for which I’m forever grateful. Sixteen years ain’t a bad innings! pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/med...
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Jason Cowley bowing out after 16 years as New Statesman editor
Award-winning New Statesman editor-in-chief Jason Cowley has announced he will step down at the end of December after 16 years at the title.
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
This week's cover: Combat Zone How the Trump-Putin relationship will decide the Ukraine war Also, David Lammy: Why Putin must fail for the international order to survive
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Hannah Barnes @hannahsbee.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
My latest: Assisted dying advocates have much to learn from the legalisation of abortion www.newstatesman.com/comment/2024...
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Assisted dying advocates have much to learn from the legalisation of abortion
The two proposals are taking a strikingly similar route through parliament.
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Sonia Sodha @sonia-sodha.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Results out of the Guardian & Observer NUJ’s postal ballot on strike action on the proposed sale of the Observer to Tortoise & its impact on staff. 75% turnout, 92.8% in favour of strike action.
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Why Gisèle Pelicot is a hero The horror of the mass rape trial in France has shaken the world. By Hannah Barnes www.newstatesman.com/comment/2024...
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Why Gisèle Pelicot is a hero
The horror of the mass rape trial in France has shaken the world.
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
American public life is an extension of the nation’s most sordid sport. In light of Linda McMahon's appointment by Trump as education secretary: www.newstatesman.com/the-weekend-...
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Everything is wrestling
American public life is an extension of the nation’s most sordid sport.
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Hannah Barnes @hannahsbee.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Gisele Pelicot tells a French court, "It felt like a death sentence." She thought she was ill; when she was actually being drugged by her ex-husband. "There'll forever be 51 people who have defiled me and I will have to live with this for the rest of my life". www.newstatesman.com/comment/2024...
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Why Gisèle Pelicot is a hero
The horror of the mass rape trial in France has shaken the world.
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
‘Why is it unfair that some farmers - some farmers - will have to pay half the inheritance tax of everyone else?’ ‘We’re making 0.5% return on producing this country’s food’ NFU President Tom Bradshaw on #Newsnight
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Jeff Overs @jeffovers.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
This week’s Supermoon (the last of 2024) rising at Glastonbury Tor. Taken from a mile away on an 800mm lens to get this perspective. #photography
Large full moon with foreground silhouette of a tower and a crowd of figures
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Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Do you ever get the feeling the world’s gone crazy? With this in mind, I play the Flintstones theme in the style of the Russian classics.
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Hannah Barnes @hannahsbee.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Had the pleasure of having dinner with Marcus du Sautoy at the Budleigh Salterton literary festival earlier in the year. Brilliant man, and great company. Maths is everywhere, as Rachel discovers!
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Hannah Barnes @hannahsbee.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
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Will Team Trump push Labour to the right?
Listener questions on president-elect Donald Trump.
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
After Trump’s win, expect a shift in Labour’s priorities There are giant undulations from the US already rippling through British politics. By Andrew Marr www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
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After Trump’s win, expect a shift in Labour’s priorities
There are giant undulations from the US already rippling through British politics.
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
This week's cover: Trump World How the new president will shape this age of conflict Would America fight for Taiwan? Will Putin win Ukraine? What now for Britain and Europe? Is war with Iran inevitable?
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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Did WrestleMania win Sadiq Khan his third London mayoral election? Things I learnt from the London Mayor on the High Performance podcast www.newstatesman.com/culture/2024...
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Sadiq Khan plays the everyman
On the High Performance podcast the mayor of London trades in chirpy platitudes.
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Dominic Casciani @bbcdomc.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
You couldn’t make it up: The Onion buys Alex Jones's Infowars at auction www.bbc.com/news/article...
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The Onion buys Alex Jones's Infowars at auction
Infowars was auctioned as part of a defamation ruling after Jones falsely called the Sandy Hook School shooting a hoax.
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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
First King Charles note I’ve seen
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/11/2024
Breaking News: Elon Musk, a top adviser to President-elect Donald Trump, met with Iran’s UN ambassador to discuss defusing Iranian-U.S. tensions during the next Trump term, two Iranian officials said.
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Elon Musk Met With Iran’s U.N. Ambassador, Iranian Officials Say
The tech billionaire, a top adviser to President-elect Donald J. Trump, was reported to have discussed ways to defuse tensions between Iran and the United States.
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Hannah Barnes @hannahsbee.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Today’s @newstatesman.com podcast - with Andrew Marr and @georgeeaton.bsky.social: Return of the Blairites podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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The return of the Blairites
Podcast Episode · The New Statesman | UK politics and culture · 14/11/2024 · 24m
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Hannah Barnes @hannahsbee.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
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Maga's family-first vision is a fantasy
Young men and women in America don't share the same values – how will they ever start relationships?
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Hannah Barnes @hannahsbee.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
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Hannah Barnes @hannahsbee.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
It’s impossible to overstate how much I admire and respect this woman. Her bravery is beyond words. Why Gisèle Pelicot is a hero - me for the @newstatesman.com www.newstatesman.com/comment/2024...
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Why Gisèle Pelicot is a hero
The horror of the mass rape trial in France has shaken the world.
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Hannah Barnes @hannahsbee.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
Questions remain over NHS youth gender care, despite Cass Review. A (now changed) job advert for a new service providing care for children and young people who started on puberty blockers or hormones at GIDS prompts a number of questions. My latest. www.newstatesman.com/politics/hea...
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Questions remain over NHS youth gender care, despite Cass Review
One of the services treating the Tavistock's former patients appeared to be taking cues from American healthcare guidelines.
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Hannah Barnes @hannahsbee.bsky.social · 20/10/2024
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The assisted dying debate is about so much more than kindness v conservatism | Sonia Sodha
George Carey is wrong to reduce the bill to a simple question of right or wrong
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 16/10/2024
Caution should prevail on the Assisted Dying Bill It is far easier to give the right to an assisted death than to take it away. By Hannah Barnes www.newstatesman.com/comment/2024...
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Caution should prevail on the Assisted Dying Bill
It is far easier to give the right to an assisted death than to take it away.
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
Liam Payne was a victim of the pop pin-up machine The dream that One Direction represented now seems an obvious nightmare. By Anna Leszkiewicz www.newstatesman.com/culture/musi...
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Liam Payne was a victim of the pop pin-up machine
The dream that One Direction represented now seems an obvious nightmare.
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
Sinwar’s death won’t save Gaza Vengeance for 7 October is not the same as victory – or peace. By Rajan Menon www.newstatesman.com/internationa...
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Sinwar’s death won’t save Gaza
Vengeance for 7 October is not the same as victory – or peace.
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