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The unbearable fragility of Lebanon’s ceasefire deal
4 days ago · The relief that swept over Lebanon after a 60-day ceasefire deal was agreed in late November was palpable. As the army’s peacekeeping troops drove through Beirut, making their way to Lebanon’s southern border with Israel, people lined the streets to cheer.
We must all be left conservatives now - New Statesman
6 days ago · Nearly two-thirds of the way into Norman Mailer’s classic work, Armies of the Night – an autobiographical third-person account of the 1967 “March on the Pentagon” protest against the Vietnam War – Mailer turns a memorable phrase. He calls himself a “Left conservative.” The novel term was, characteristically for Mailer, more richly suggestive than precise.
Will Reform win in your local council? - New Statesman
Dec 19, 2024 · Reform is taking people by surprise with their wins. Through my model we can see what these national numbers may mean locally. And the projection (while rough, and certainly not a guarantor of where opinion stands) has Reform on course to top the poll in more than 500 wards across England and Wales.
Forget Mandelson, Starmer holds the key to the special relationship
6 days ago · Until Labour knows what it wants from the US, the diplomats don’t matter. By Luke McGee The appointment of Peter Mandelson – former cabinet minister under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, and former EU trade commissioner – as ambassador to the US has divided opinion. Supporters commend him as an ...
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US election 2024 live blog - New Statesman
Nov 5, 2024 · Minute-by-minute analysis of a momentous night for US politics. By New Statesman Will Kamala Harris defy the odds and win the White House after a whirlwind 100-day campaign? Or will Donald Trump’s divisive strategy prove successful? And how soon will we know either way? Welcome to the New ...
Bill Gates: the Optimist’s Dilemma - New Statesman
Nov 27, 2024 · Early in my conversation with Bill Gates, in a small, windowless room at the Peninsula hotel in London, the lights went out. There was an initial surprised silence before Hannah Cockburn-Logie, Gates’s consigliere and a former Foreign Office mandarin, stood up and attempted to reactivate the lighting by swaying slightly and waving her arms in a kind of restrained English parody of the Trump ...
Cover Story - New Statesman
How a demagogue remade the Republican Party and transformed US politics. For Democrats, the summer’s “politics of joy” has turned into an autumn of deepening anxiety. The government has already squandered the goodwill of voters. Can the Budget revitalise Team Starmer? There can …
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The New Statesman is the leading progressive political and cultural magazine in the United Kingdom. Founded as a weekly review of politics and literature on 12 April 1913, the New Statesman has notably recognised and published new writers and critics, as well as encouraged notable careers.