Josh White / 09 May 2022
Dead Centre
Blairism Without Blair
Twenty-five years after winning a landslide victory, Tony Blair haunts the Labour Party.(...)
Politics
Natalie Sarkic-Todd / 07 May 2022
How to Read Russia
First Person Lessons
The sudden reset in Russia relations has thrown everything up in the air.(...)
John Foster / 29 Apr 2022
Assessing Russia’s War
Lavrov’s Nuclear Threat
After two months of war, the Kremlin is finally owning up to the crisis it’s caused.(...)
Josh White / 25 Apr 2022
Ex-Social Democrats
Today’s New Statesman
Getting off the tube at Blackfriars, you could walk through the backstreets of Fleet Street without seeing the office of the oldest progressive magazine in Britain. It’s easily done.(...)
Natalie Sarkic-Todd / 20 Apr 2022
First Impressions Last Forever
Dining With Marine Le Pen
Emmanuel Macron’s stump speech in Strasbourg last week was a blast from the past.(...)
John Foster / 15 Apr 2022
Putting NATO in Its Place
Russia and the Ukraine War
Baron Ismay, who served as Secretary-General of NATO from 1952 to 1957, famously described its purpose as keeping “the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down”.(...)
Josh White / 11 Apr 2022
Selling the News
Losing Channel 4 to the Spivs
Sitting in front of the TV waiting for the news to come on, with a plate of food on your lap. This was a common experience once upon a time.(...)
Joel Schalit / 04 Apr 2022
Making Use of Syrians
Russia’s Populist Exception
Twenty years ago today, it would have been the stuff of conspiracy theory.(...)
Josh White / 28 Mar 2022
The Opposition Newspaper
Morning Star and the UK Left
Walking down Beachy Road, you’ll miss William Rust House if you don’t know the address.(...)
Joel Schalit / 18 Mar 2022
A Russian Education
Putin’s Genocide Charge
No war in recent memory has divided progressives like the Ukraine crisis. (...)