1+ day, 18+ hour 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…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (74+ words) Holborn and St Pancras is Labour’s to lose New Statesman The party’s candidate Sagal Abdi-Wali is viewed as being close to Starmer This by-election was triggered after Keir Starmer resigned the seat on 1 September, parliament’s first day back after the…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (112+ words) New Statesman A testy exchange on the Today programme revealed two gnawing problems for the leader of the opposition On Thursday, Kemi Badenoch managed to grab the coveted 8:10am interview slot on the Today programme, usually reserved for government ministers, and…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (221+ words) New Statesman “I’m better than you are!” “I’m better than you are!” Those lines are from the 1964 movie, Fail Safe, screamed by Colonel Cascio, a right-wing officer in the American Strategic Air Command. After he is told to order the…...

4+ day, 7+ 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…...

5+ day, 23+ min 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…...

4+ day, 22+ 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,…...

4+ day, 22+ 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,…...

5+ day, 29+ min ago   (188+ words) newstatesman.com Mayors have a track record of leadership at times of national crisis. Richard Cobden in 1840s Manchester, Joseph Chamberlain in late 19th-century Birmingham and Fiorello La Guardia, who ran New York from 1934 to 1945, focused on local problems but developed…...

5+ day, 24+ min ago   (186+ words) newstatesman.com In Don DeLillo’s 2007 novel Falling Man, after escaping the North Tower on 11 September 2001, his face covered in ash and glass splinters, Keith Neudecker returns to his estranged wife, Lianne, to find that they were “ready to sink into…...