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Predictions for 2025: Russia wins - New Statesman
1 day ago · The biggest shift that took place was without a doubt the US elections. Until this year, Congress agreed to fund Ukraine, but earlier this month the Republican speaker of the House of Representatives rejected a proposal by the Biden administration for an additional $24 billion in …
Will Reform win in your local council? - New Statesman
Dec 19, 2024 · Reform is taking people by surprise with their wins. Through my model we can see what these national numbers may mean locally. And the projection (while rough, and certainly not a guarantor of where opinion stands) has Reform on course to top the poll in more than 500 wards across England and Wales.
US election 2024 live blog - New Statesman
Nov 5, 2024 · Minute-by-minute analysis of a momentous night for US politics. By New Statesman Will Kamala Harris defy the odds and win the White House after a whirlwind 100-day campaign? Or will Donald Trump’s divisive strategy prove successful? And how soon will we know either way? Welcome to the New ...
We must all be left conservatives now - New Statesman
Dec 21, 2024 · Nearly two-thirds of the way into Norman Mailer’s classic work, Armies of the Night – an autobiographical third-person account of the 1967 “March on the Pentagon” protest against the Vietnam War – Mailer turns a memorable phrase. He calls himself a “Left conservative.” The novel term was, characteristically for Mailer, more richly suggestive than precise.
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Forget Mandelson, Starmer holds the key to the special relationship
Dec 21, 2024 · Until Labour knows what it wants from the US, the diplomats don’t matter. By Luke McGee The appointment of Peter Mandelson – former cabinet minister under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, and former EU trade commissioner – as ambassador to the US has divided opinion. Supporters commend him as an ...
Bill Gates: the Optimist’s Dilemma - New Statesman
Nov 27, 2024 · Early in my conversation with Bill Gates, in a small, windowless room at the Peninsula hotel in London, the lights went out. There was an initial surprised silence before Hannah Cockburn-Logie, Gates’s consigliere and a former Foreign Office mandarin, stood up and attempted to reactivate the lighting by swaying slightly and waving her arms in a kind of restrained English parody of the Trump ...
Jason Cowley to stand down as New Statesman editor-in-chief …
Nov 22, 2024 · New Statesman editor-in-chief Jason Cowley has announced his intention to step down at the end of the year. He will continue to write for the New Statesman as a columnist and essayist.. Cowley has been editor of the New Statesman since autumn 2008 and successfully led its transformation from a weekly political and cultural magazine to a multimedia brand.
The US election looks narrower than ever - New Statesman
Oct 30, 2024 · To interpret the early voting data in the US election – which can be viewed here – we have to work through the electorate’s habits in recent years. In 2020 there was an overwhelming number of early votes cast by registered Democrats.