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The unbearable fragility of Lebanon’s ceasefire deal
4 days ago · The relief that swept over Lebanon after a 60-day ceasefire deal was agreed in late November was palpable. As the army’s peacekeeping troops drove through Beirut, making their way to Lebanon’s southern border with Israel, people lined the streets to cheer.
We must all be left conservatives now - New Statesman
6 days ago · 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.
Forget Mandelson, Starmer holds the key to the special relationship
5 days ago · 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 ...
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.
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How will the Ukraine war end? - New Statesman
Dec 17, 2024 · That is not to say that such realism has trickled down into Ukrainian civic society. Polling in October by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology found 32 per cent were prepared to give up some territory to end the conflict and preserve the rest of the country’s independence. Although an increase from the 14 per cent who expressed such views a year before, it is still a minority, with ...
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 ...
The new media barons - New Statesman
Sep 21, 2024 · As has been happening elsewhere (namely the United States, with the sale of Time magazine to the Salesforce co-founder Marc Benioff and Jeff Bezos’s purchase of the Washington Post), money made in other markets is buying into the press.Will the new media moguls save Britain’s oldest publications – or change them beyond recognition?
UK Politics - New Statesman
Their campaign became the tool of cynical politicians. In 2024, the party discovered that winning an election isn’t the same as winning the country. The party could win up to 1,000 councillors between now and the general election. The Conservative leader …