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4. “This sport is stupid anyway,” says US paper after defeat

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Labour’s existential crisis

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27.02.2026 20

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After 17 years at the New Statesman, I leave with a renewed faith in the power of ideas

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26.02.2026 20

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4. Reform’s risky right turn

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26.02.2026 30

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5. Will Labour U-turn on student loans?

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25.02.2026 20

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Can Bridget Phillipson avoid a Send revolt?

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5. Britain’s fraying constitution

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21.02.2026 30

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5. Don’t abolish the OBR

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20.02.2026 50

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5. Reform is looking beatable

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5. Britain is in denial on defence

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18.02.2026 50

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5. Starmer’s war with Big Tech

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17.02.2026 30

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4. Why is Labour so unpopular?

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5. Starmer’s avoidable Lords nightmare

13.02.2026 30

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4. Labour’s stealth leftism

12.02.2026 20

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How Keir Starmer survives

10.02.2026 20

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The lesson of Morgan McSweeney’s downfall

09.02.2026 20

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The PLP aren’t Mandelson clones

08.02.2026 40

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4. The parable of Andy Burnham and Peter Mandelson

06.02.2026 30

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Peter Mandelson will haunt Labour

03.02.2026 20

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5. Will Labour face a graduate revolt?

31.01.2026 30

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5. Kemi Badenoch needs centrists to win

30.01.2026 30

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2. Labour’s search for a doctrine

29.01.2026 20

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4. Labour should fear a Green surge

28.01.2026 10

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5. Who wins from the Burnham veto?

27.01.2026 30

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4. The British right’s Trump problem

23.01.2026 40

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5. Mark Carney’s lessons for Keir Starmer

22.01.2026 30

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The Greenland crisis is an opportunity for Starmer

19.01.2026 20

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4. Reform’s hollow revolution

17.01.2026 30

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5. Wes Streeting makes his pitch

16.01.2026 30

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Why Keir Starmer has gone to war with Elon Musk

13.01.2026 30

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1. Labour’s new foreign policy divide

13.01.2026 40

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1. Can Labour recover?

10.01.2026 40

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What’s behind the Tories’ poll bounce?

08.01.2026 30

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3. Why Scottish Labour has broken with Starmer

07.01.2026 40

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3. Will Keir Starmer’s fightback work?

06.01.2026 30

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2. Inside Labour’s five families

19.12.2025 20

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The NHS taboo could break

16.12.2025 30

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Does Andy Burnham have a route back?

15.12.2025 20

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1. Britain’s right turn

13.12.2025 50

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5. Why Tony Blair is watching Shabana Mahmood

12.12.2025 30

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Who’s winning Labour’s shadow leadership contest?

10.12.2025 10

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2. Labour’s Green attacks are misfiring

09.12.2025 20

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Did Rachel Reeves do enough?

27.11.2025 20

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Rachel Reeves’ risky sequel

26.11.2025 30

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2. What would Zack Polanski do?

26.11.2025 20

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Can Rachel Reeves do more than muddle through?

25.11.2025 30

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Tom Watson: “Ignore your MPs at your peril”

22.11.2025 30

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3. The Labour left’s musical chairs

21.11.2025 20

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How serious is Labour’s asylum revolt?

18.11.2025 30

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Shabana Mahmood’s warning to liberals

17.11.2025 30

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