The New Statesman

01/12/2025

Nearly two thirds of the people think the cost of living crisis will never end.

01/12/2025

Paddington The Musical escapes the uncanny valley

Even a bear as tender as Paddington can see the emotional clutter we’ve learned to ignore

01/12/2025

Starmer stumbles over Reeves rumble

In his speech today, the PM struggled to defend both his government and his chancellor

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In his speech today, the PM struggled to defend both his government and his chancellor

01/12/2025

Has Labour's soft left won?

📫 Today’s Morning Call, with George Eaton

Keir Starmer’s U-turns mean all sides crave more ideological definition

01/12/2025

My hero Tom Stoppard

A man with more charm than anyone I have ever met

By Mark Damazer

A man with more charm than anyone I have ever met, for whom freedom of thought was the pre-requisite for a decent society.

01/12/2025

"It's like a plush retirement home" - Ailbhe Rea on the House of Lords

01/12/2025

Zarah Sultana triumphs at Your Party’s first conference

The conference has shown that the Coventry South MP is in the ascendancy

By Megan Kenyon and Ethan Croft

The conference has shown that the Coventry South MP is in the ascendancy

01/12/2025

In car-boot Britain, “petty crime” has turned professional. Robert Jenrick is wrong – the problem is organised crime.

🖊️ Anoosh Chakelian

Robert Jenrick is wrong – the problem is organised crime

01/12/2025

"A new level of unfairness is taking shape in the UK economy."

💰 Will Dunn: Rachel Reeves mugs the youth

Young workers are coughing up for state pensions

01/12/2025

Labour’s conformism is crushing Britain

Rachel Reeves is just the latest ambassador of a failed political elite

By David Edgerton and Karel Williams

Rachel Reeves is just the latest ambassador of a failed political elite

30/11/2025

At Anthropic’s brand event in Marylebone, the tech world’s usual radioactive dorkiness is almost wholly absent

Josiah Gogarty: Can AI ever be cool?

At Anthropic's brand event in Marylebone, the tech world's usual radioactive dorkiness is almost wholly absent

30/11/2025

At Oxfordshire's waste mountain, a national monument to greed

🖼️ Will Dunn's sketch

Ed Davey had to make do with expressing vigorous concern from a distance