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Andrew Marr: Civil war looms over this brittle Labour government Peter Mandelson's sacking has only heightened factional conflict in the party.
Inside Labour’s deputy leadership election: Some MPs see the race as a proxy war between Keir Starmer and Andy Burnham. @meganekenyon.bsky.social
Ro Khanna said today that “rich and powerful men who covered for Epstein’s paedophilia or participated in it must be held accountable,” adding that “Mandelson is the first example of many that will follow when the files are released”.
It’s little wonder we are so confused by them.
Peter Mandelson runs out of excuses. The Prime Minister sacks his ambassador - less than a day after defending him in parliament. @meganekenyon.bsky.social
This new TV adaptation is glossy, in thrall to the super-rich, briefly compelling, and ultimately disposable.
Councils led by Nigel Farage’s party are a preview of what a Reform government would look like.
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Steve Richards: Bridget Phillipson is the last, best hope of the Labour right The education secretary is growing in confidence and would make a fine deputy leader. www.newstatesman.com/politi...
"Kirk’s wife, Erika, and their two young children, were both at the event." The assassination of Charlie Kirk
"There’s a question here about Starmer’s judgement and what he values in his top team." The walls are closing in on Peter Mandelson, writes Freddie Hayward
Prisons abandon women to give birth alone – at great risk to their lives, and those of their babies. Faye Curran: Born in chains
The soft left helped make Starmer – could it break him? The government’s rightwards drift is uniting past ideological foes. 🖊️ @georgeeaton.bsky.social on Labour
Lime bikes are the scourge of Tube strike London. Forget cabbies and lorry drivers: cyclists have a new enemy. www.newstatesman.com/cultur...
📔 @zackpolanski.bsky.social 's diary: My first week as Green Party leader
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Kemi Badenoch hopes the economy can save her. The Tory leader is pitching her party as the grown-ups in the room. But is anyone listening? @RMCunliffe.bsky.social
Bell Ribeiro-Addy: “People are feeling disillusioned in Labour” As the Labour left’s chosen deputy leadership candidate, Ribeiro-Addy is unlikely to make it on the ballot. @meganekenyon.bsky.social
The government insists the legislation is safe, but the loss of Justin Madders after Angela Rayner suggests otherwise.
Labour has shuffled to the right. Will it be enough to save Starmer from his enemies?
Nato fighter jets shoot down Russian drones over Poland Poland invokes Nato's Article Four after shooting down Russian drones. By Katie Stallard
The “Block Everything” takes France by storm. Angry protestors see this as a sequel to the gilets jaunes movement.
Shabana Mahmood and the rise of English white nationalism. The generosity of our moral imagination has collapsed, and been replaced by taunts and bigotry. By Jide Ehizele
Chris Curtis MP: The Manchester model pioneered by Andy Burnham should be an inspiration to Keir Starmer.
PMQs review: Badenoch hammers Starmer on Mandelson 🖊️ @RMCunliffe.bsky.social
At DSEI, defence traders sell safety and violence. 🖊️ @willdunn.bsky.social: Inside London’s festival for the arms industry
The proposed candidates for Labour's deputy leadership lack her credibility and charisma.
Nobody can replace Angela Rayner The proposed candidates for Labour's deputy leadership lack her credibility and charisma. By David Littlefair
Banksy’s latest work delighted Elon Musk by painting the judiciary as the villain. 🖼️ Michael Prodger: The right doesn’t get Banksy
Bell Ribeiro-Addy has changed Labour’s deputy leadership race. Though they are unlikely to win, it is significant that the left were the first to field a candidate. @meganekenyon.bsky.social
Peter Mandelson is tainted by the Epstein scandal. In the eyes of Washington, Mandelson is now in the same boat as Donald Trump.
Who is Labour’s new Queen of the North? 📫 Today’s Morning Call, with @georgeeaton.bsky.social: What a contest between Bridget Phillipson and Lucy Powell would mean for the party.
New modelling by Gilead Sciences shows we're off-track to meet current targets - but hope is not lost.
The battle for Royal Mail In one of our oldest institutions we can find the story of modern Britain: a struggle between workers and the market. 🖊️ Peter Bach www.newstatesman.com/politi...
Arituclate, charismatic and funny, she is Labour's answer to Nigel Farage. Stella Tsantekidou: Only Emily Thornberry can save Keir Starmer from himself.
This new TV adaptation is glossy, in thrall to the super-rich, briefly compelling, and ultimately disposable.
The sketch: My night dancing with Nigel Farage At Reform conference, Farage’s acolytes were triumphant, and tremendously drunk. 🖼️ Will Lloyd www.newstatesman.com/politi...
David Lammy’s Gaza cowardice In a letter last week, Lammy said the Foreign Office had concluded Israel’s actions were not a genocide. 🌎 @MeganJGibson.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/politi...
Nigel Farage told an untruth about his house. But no one asks him to play by the rules. 🖊️ @willdunn.bsky.social: Why Angela Rayner’s tax bill was more important than Nigel Farage’s www.newstatesman.com/commen...
Neal Lawson: It’s time to free Labour from this useless leadership. It's not too late to save the party from the faction currently destroying it. www.newstatesman.com/politi...
The revelations of the Guardian’s “Boris Files” are far from Johnson’s first scandal.
Vladimir Putin has warned that any foreign troops in the country would be "legitimate targets".
Louise Haigh: The fiscal straitjacket facing Labour must be broken.This government was elected to transform the country. We can only do that by rewriting the rules that bind us. @louisehaighmp.bsky.social
Is Labour’s Deputy Leadership election the “mother of all stitch-ups”? The Left are furious at the speed of the proposed timetable. @meganekenyon.bsky.social
The new soft-left group Mainstream could help propel the mayor to power.
Bridget Phillipson pitches herself as continuity Rayner The Labour Deputy Leader hopeful is emphasising her identity as a working-class northern woman. By @meganekenyon.bsky.social
The former lead commissioner of Birmingham City Council on bin strikes, Sharon Graham and the future of local government.
Bell Ribeiro-Addy: “People are feeling disillusioned in Labour” As the Labour left’s chosen deputy leadership candidate, Ribeiro-Addy is unlikely to make it on the ballot. @meganekenyon.bsky.social
Kemi Badenoch hopes the economy can save her. The Tory leader is pitching her party as the grown-ups in the room. But is anyone listening? @RMCunliffe.bsky.social
This government was elected to transform the country. We can only do that by rewriting the rules that bind us.
Who will be Labour’s next Deputy Leader? What the numbers say: An angry party membership could throw up a surprising result. 📊 @bwalker.uk
The Government insists the legislation is safe, but the loss of Justin Madders after Angela Rayner suggests otherwise.
Nigel Farage really means it this time. At Reform Conference, his “people’s army” formed a long, gloating parade. 🖊️ @nickpaulharris.bsky.social
Will Labour crown Bridget Phillipson deputy leader? The Education Secretary’s best hope of victory may be a split vote among rivals. 📫 Today’s Morning Call, with @georgeeaton.bsky.social
Bell Ribeiro-Addy has changed Labour’s deputy leadership race. Though they are unlikely to win, it is significant that the left were the first to field a candidate. @meganekenyon.bsky.social
Speak for England, Big John In the face of racist attacks, the food influencer represents a form of patriotism that is modest and decent. By James Baggaley
Emily Thornberry has declared for Labour's deputy leadership. In January, she spoke to Harry Clarke-Ezzidio and reflected on her omission from Starmer's cabinet. Might she haunt him as deputy leader?
AN Wilson on Christianity’s political ascent and Alice Roberts' new history of the late Roman empire:
Arituclate, charismatic and funny, she is Labour's answer to Nigel Farage. Stella Tsantekidou: Only Emily Thornberry can save Keir Starmer from himself.
Chris Curtis MP: The Manchester model pioneered by Andy Burnham should be an inspiration to Keir Starmer.
Shabana Mahmood and the rise of English white nationalism. The generosity of our moral imagination has collapsed, and been replaced by taunts and bigotry. By Jide Ehizele
The Manchester model pioneered by Andy Burnham should be an inspiration to Keir Starmer.
New modelling by Gilead Sciences shows we're off-track to meet current targets - but hope is not lost.
The generosity of our moral imagination has collapsed, and been replaced by taunts and bigotry.
Is Lucy Connolly a normal person? Reform call her "Britain's favourite political prisoner". Its supporters see themselves in her.
The new soft-left group Mainstream could help propel the mayor to power.
This government was elected to transform the country. We can only do that by rewriting the rules that bind us.
Is Labour’s Deputy Leadership election the “mother of all stitch-ups”? The Left are furious at the speed of the proposed timetable. @meganekenyon.bsky.social
Constantine Cavafy’s melancholy and majesty The 20th-century Greek-Alexandrian poet wrote of a faded grandeur that stood for all humanity. By Anthony Sattin
Nigel Farage really means it this time. At Reform Conference, his “people’s army” formed a long, gloating parade. 🖊️ @nickpaulharris.bsky.social
Louise Haigh: The fiscal straitjacket facing Labour must be broken.This government was elected to transform the country. We can only do that by rewriting the rules that bind us. @louisehaighmp.bsky.social
“There is a risk of polarising every landlord as ‘evil’ - we must make sure we don’t fall into that trap.” Dubbed the "Gaza Independents", the 4 independent MPs working with Corbyn & Sultana are more varied than that - as Anoosh Chakelian found out from Shockat Adam:
The former lead commissioner of Birmingham City Council on bin strikes, Sharon Graham and the future of local government. 🗣️ Harry Clarke-Ezzidio meets Max "The Axe" Caller www.newstatesman.com/politi...
This government was elected to transform the country. We can only do that be rewriting the rules that bind us.
Zarah Sultana: “Labour is dead.” The independent MP on how Your Party can beat Labour and stop the rise of Reform. @meganekenyon.bsky.social
Is Lucy Connolly a normal person? Reform call her "Britain's favourite political prisoner". Its supporters see themselves in her.
Reform call her "Britain's favourite political prisoner". Its supporters see themselves in her.
As its conference kicks off, the increasing diversity of the party’s membership will become more apparent.
A crisis and a reshuffle.
"I think it’s time for us to define our terms objectively, remembering, when we design our laws, to predict how the most evil and incompetent government we can imagine might employ them." 🖊️ Alex O'Connor on Graham Linehan and free speech in Britain www.newstatesman.com/politi...
“I think Nigel Farage is taking the piss” Paul Nowak, general secretary of the TUC, on immigration, workers' rights, and why the union movement needs the Labour Party. By @RMCunliffe.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/politi...
Andrew Marr discusses Angela Rayner, Immigration and Graham Linehan's arrest.
A guide to Hove for Angela Rayner Not to be confused with Brighton, thank you very much.
Your Party is tentatively open to a Green alliance.
“Tommy Robinson has said things about the rape gangs for years” Yusuf said, “and deserves some credit for that.” Zia Yusuf: Jeremy Corbyn is worse than Tommy Robinson
Lee Anderson stands up for England, by Nicholas Harris. His politics – and his gestures at comedy – are driven by the same dangerous nostalgia.
"The Prime Minister has used Angela Rayner's resignation to change his team and take on Reform UK." Andrew Marr: Keir Starmer's reshuffle pushes Labour to the right
Andrew Marr: Keir Starmer can stop a deputy leadership election. If he moves swiftly and brutally, the Prime Minister can prevent a damaging battle inside Labour.
As all part leaders take the same line, it seems there is nothing new under Scotland’s sun.
Farage dances on Angela Rayner’s political grave at conference The Reform leader has even more cause for boasting than usual this afternoon. 🖊️ @nickpaulharris.bsky.social
The British public are being gaslit about Angela Rayner, writes Stella Tsantekidou: She's not a saint, but she is nowhere near as bad as the right-wing press would have us believe.
Zarah Sultana: “Labour is dead.” The independent MP on how Your Party can beat Labour and stop the rise of Reform. @meganekenyon.bsky.social
Reform UK's head of policy comes out batting for the five time prisoner.
Reform’s vision of a Britain wracked by migrant criminals is an expedient mirage.
Through the unknown gate: How Britain’s long European trauma was forged in wartime Algeria, by @TomMcTague.bsky.social
"At some point during Brighton Pride, a new friend heading to get us a round of drinks asked me to look after his bag – and his Labubu." Why are Brits now unable to sleep without fluffy toys? 🖊️ Arielle Domb: Labubu and the infantilisation of the West www.newstatesman.com/cultur...
Witnesses at Corbyn's Gaza tribunal said the government had failed its responsibilities under international law. 🖊️ @meganekenyon.bsky.social: Jeremy Corbyn seeks to force Labour’s hand on Palestine www.newstatesman.com/the-we...
If he moves swiftly and brutally, the Prime Minister can prevent a damaging battle inside Labour.
Shabana Mahmood’s star is rising
The president’s bruises are signs of American sickness.