14+ hour, 2+ min ago   (196+ words) Andy Burnham’s growing pains New Statesman When Andy Burnham stood on the steps of Downing Street on his first day as Prime Minister, he pledged to build “a new economic model” for the UK. But if John Healey’s first speech…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (227+ words) New Statesman Hours after a bullet struck Charlie Kirk on 10 September last year, the right-wing podcaster Tim Pool proclaimed on X that a “source tells me Charlie is stable. Please god.” Kirk was not, in fact, in stable condition. An…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (173+ words) New Statesman The rumour mill works quickly at a temporary mass-arrest jail in Washington DC. It had been only an hour since I was bundled out of a police van into a freezing warehouse filled with rows of fold-out plastic chairs…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (215+ words) New Statesman Nigel “has only got one ball”. John Sweeney is already singing by page three of this crude and disorganised biography, and he hopes we’re singing along with him, or at least whistling. He knows we know the song,…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (217+ words) New Statesman I don’t remember 9/11, which made me feel especially qualified to watch Netflix’s Turning Point: Generation 9/11. I’ve spent enough time around millennial rememberers, people who try to stun you with their “where were you” stories (school stopped, parents panicked,…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (139+ words) newstatesman.com Amid the ruins and the rubble, there is a flicker of hope. The first 1,000 Palestinian children under five are now attending, or are about to attend, early-learning classes in makeshift centres across Gaza – giving the youngest victims of…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (212+ words) New Statesman “He was the future once,” David Cameron observed, mockingly, during his first exchange with Tony Blair at Prime Minister’s Questions back in 2005. The remark was cutting because it poked fun at one of Blairism’s most fundamental conceits: that…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (122+ words) New Statesman Vicky Spratt (Cover Story, 4 September) made some good points about intergenerational equity, but too easily equated class with housing tenure. Pondering the definition of middle vs working class, she writes that “once it may have been as simple…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (138+ words) New Statesman Today’s Prime Minister’s Questions (9 September) was only Andy Burnham’s second in the job, and was the final session before MPs head off on conference recess next Tuesday (15 September). Here’s what we learned. Kemi Badenoch continued on a theme…...