The New Statesman

The New Statesman is a magazine based in London that focuses on politics and culture in the UK. It began as a weekly publication that reviewed political issues and literature on April 12, 1913. At its inception, it had ties to notable figures like Sidney and Beatrice Webb, who were prominent members of the socialist Fabian Society. Currently, the magazine identifies itself as having a left-of-centre political stance.

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Dishonesty now rules Scottish politics

1 day ago | newstatesman.com | Chris Deerin

Hope is, famously, one of the most powerful words in politics. Every party lays claim to offering it. It helped get Barack Obama elected. It’s rarely far from the lips of any politician with something to sell you. So it proved on Wednesday evening, when John Swinney and Anas Sarwar took part in a live event for the Holyrood Sources podcast. The First Minister said he would put independence at the heart of his devolved election campaign, as this was where “hope” could be found for Scotland.
Zohran Mamdani is teaching the left a lesson

2 days ago | newstatesman.com | Freddie Hayward

For once, money has not prevailed in American politics. The social democrat Zohran Mamdani is set to become the Democratic candidate for New York mayor after beating the former governor Andrew Cuomo by over ten points in the primary. It is the most pivotal progressive victory since Trump returned to power, one that could steer the party to the left and catalyse its populist instincts. This was a match-up between stale and new, young and old, establishment and outsider.
Ro Khanna interview: American optimist

2 days ago | newstatesman.com | Freddie Hayward

The Phillies baseball team was one run up in the sixth inning when the Democratic congressman Ro Khanna gazed at the crowd, turned to me and said: “I’m American. Americans are optimistic.”Nihilism, cynicism and fascism are buzzwords in America today. Optimism, less so. But people did look happy. Families knocked their heads together for selfies, squinting through the sunlight at their phones. Young bros munched hotdogs with one hand and slurped Miller Lites with the other.
The woman who bested Big Oil

4 days ago | newstatesman.com | Harry Clarke-Ezzidio

Climate activism isn’t the typical realm you associate notable eponymous court rulings with. But for Sarah Finch, victory in a five-year legal battle last June not only created a judgement in her name, but a strong precedent over the future of fossil fuel drilling projects in Britain.
Iran strikes back

4 days ago | newstatesman.com | Katie Stallard

Thirty-six hours after the US bombed three Iranian nuclear sites, Iran’s military announced that it had begun its retaliation, targeting the Al Udaid air base in Qatar, the largest US military installation in the region, with “destructive and forceful missiles”. US and UK citizens were told to shelter in place as Qatar closed its air space. Air raid sirens sounded in the capital of neighbouring Bahrain.
Wes Streeting’s maternity revolution

4 days ago | newstatesman.com | Hannah Barnes

Less than a week after meeting with families failed by English maternity services, Wes Streeting has announced a rapid national investigation into the care received by women and their babies across the country. Starting this summer, the investigation will urgently look at up to ten of the worst-performing hospital trusts in the country, as well as examining the maternity system at large, and bringing together the findings of past reviews into one clear national action plan.
How Donald Trump plunged America into a blind war

5 days ago | newstatesman.com | Katie Stallard

One minute after midnight on 21 June, a small group of US B-2 Spirit bombers took off from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri heading west across the Pacific. They were picked up shortly afterwards by flight tracking accounts on social media, prompting breaking news alerts that multiple American bombers capable of carrying the type of heavy ordinance that would be needed to destroy Iran’s nuclear sites were airborne as journalists frantically traced their trajectory. In fact, this was a decoy.
Smells like Jane Austen

5 days ago | newstatesman.com | Freya Graham

Jane Austen was a woman who liked to shop. “I am getting very extravagant & spending all my Money,” she wrote to her sister Cassandra during an 1811 London sejour. “What is worse for you,” she added, “I have been spending yours too.” Muslin, trimmings, and silk were her chosen indulgences, but there were limits to her taste for luxury. Opulence, in her fiction, signals artifice.
How Benjamin Netanyahu beat America First

5 days ago | newstatesman.com | Freddie Hayward

“Iran, the bully of the Middle East, must now make peace,” Donald Trump told the world from inside the White House last night. Earlier that day, B-2 bombers had dropped their bunker-busting payloads on three Iranian nuclear facilities, marking America’s entrance into the conflict between Israel and Iran. This is not peace through strength, but peace through war. What happens now depends on the Iranian response.
Meet the Blue Labour bros

1 week ago | newstatesman.com | Morgan Jones

Blue Labour has always been more of a collection of guys than a faction. From its beginnings in the aftermath of the financial crisis, it was Maurice Glasman and a small handful of Jons and not a huge amount more. It is now having something of a resurgence, and beginning to develop a degree of internal reality, although the reality of its actual influence remains debated. A Blue Labour group of MPs formed at the end of last year; now a parliamentary staff network has been set up.