Keir Starmer is all alone
The Mandelson affair has become less about Peter Mandelson’s alleged wrongdoing, and all about Keir Starmer’s ability to run the country.This week Olly Robbins, former chief civil servant at the Forei...
23 Apr 34min
Does Starmer deserve more credit?
Does Keir Starmer deserve more credit for keeping us out of a third Gulf war? Is Farage's relationship with Trump hurting Reform's polling? And who are the bright young things in British politics?Anoo...
20 Apr 33min
Ex defence secretary slams Starmer's strategy
Criticism of Labour's response to the global threat, Trump's AI Jesus and parliament's "summer of sex".Will Dunn and Anoosh Chakelian round up this week's stories.Any suggestions for next week's categ...
18 Apr 28min
Why do young women hate men?
For years, we have wrung our hands about the manosphere: the misogynist influencers like Andrew Tate exploiting a generation of disillusioned and impressionable lost boys.But what about radicalised yo...
16 Apr 27min
Trump’s “demented” Easter and fragile ceasefire | Will and Anoosh's weekly round up
Trump’s "demented" Easter announcement, Britain’s squeezed middle and getting “the ick” for Zack Polanski…Anoosh Chakelian and Will Dunn round up the stories of the week.READ: https://www.newstatesman...
11 Apr 26min
AI is embedded in the British state
AI is embedded in the machinery of the British state: drafting legislation, shaping spending decisions, informing interest rate policy and writing speeches delivered in parliament.Has Britain handed o...
9 Apr 55min
Yanis Varoufakis: Greece has become Israel's "handmaiden"
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6 Apr 1h 3min
Thames Water's careless vandalism
The pollution of Britain’s waterways is well known, but the full extent of the carelessness and vandalism of Britain’s biggest water company, Thames Water, is a catalogue of wrongdoing on an industria...
3 Apr 31min
