Pensions How Emmanuel Macron’s pension reforms could paralyse his presidencynewstatesman.com - Pauline Bock As the biggest strike for more than a decade has shown, the French president has picked a fight with the entire working population. Last Friday, the …
Liberal Democrats (UK) For Jo Swinson and the Liberal Democrats, ambition is the only optionnewstatesman.com - Stephen Bush Swinson's ambitious approach has risks, but it's the party's only available way to grow. Ambition was the underlying theme of Jo Swinson’s first …
Ben Stokes Should the Sun have unearthed a decades old “private tragedy” in Ben Stokes’ family?newstatesman.com - Jasper Jackson Even those used to the Sun's salacious reporting may baulk at unearthing such personal pain. On Tuesday morning, England cricket hero Ben Stokes …
Opinion So why on earth would anyone join the Liberal Democrats?newstatesman.com - Jonn Elledge On the mean streets of Bournemouth, a battle for the party’s very soul. Something was different in the hall at Lib Dem conference this year: people …
Opinion The Tories’ claims that they’ll get tough on crime are based on falsehoodsnewstatesman.com - Anonymous Ratcheting up rhetoric on law and order is a familiar refuge for the mendacious politician. This week’s Sunday Telegraph devoted its front-page lead to …
Opinion Five things you need to know today: Supreme Court to examine lawfulness of prorogationnewstatesman.com - New Statesman Plus, Israel goes to the polls and LibDems go home Boris Johnson has declined to say that he will abide by the judgement of the Supreme Court in this …
David Cameron What David Cameron's comeback interview tells us about the Toriesnewstatesman.com - Patrick Maguire In conversation with ITV's Tom Bradby, the former prime minister revealed just how spectacularly his political project has failed. He disagrees with …
Opinion The case for universal infant free school mealsnewstatesman.com - Anonymous Research Fellow and economist at the Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex, discusses the effects of free school meals and …
UK Supreme Court This week, the Supreme Court must come of agenewstatesman.com - Anonymous Ten years after its launch, the UK’s final court of appeal must decide the most important constitutional case for a generation. In June 1996, the …
Chuka Umunna Chuka Umunna says the Lib Dems could win up to 200 seats. Is he right?newstatesman.com - Patrick Maguire Are the Lib Dems repeating the mistakes of Cleggmania? Some party veterans think so. How many seats can the Liberal Democrats expect to win at the …
Sam Gyimah There's something everyone has missed about Sam Gyimah's defectionnewstatesman.com - Patrick Maguire In joining the Lib Dems, Gyimah has continued a pattern of resignations that illustrates just how profoundly the big parties have changed. What does …
David Cameron David Cameron and the language of privilegenewstatesman.com - Anoosh Chakelian The Guardian has apologised after accusing the former prime minister of “privileged pain” over his son’s death. A couple of years into my time as a …
Opinion Recovering the missing billions: how auditing can improve tax collectionnewstatesman.com - Anonymous Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick and Impact Directot of the Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy looks at how …
What do the Lib Dems gain by pledging to revoke Article 50?newstatesman.com - Stephen Bush A minority of members fear that the party has already sent an unquestionable message to Remainers and has nothing to gain by repeating itself. The …
Opinion Five things you need to know: Johnson "infantile" over Hulk comparison says Verhofstadtnewstatesman.com - New Statesman Plus, oil price surges after attacks in Saudi Arabia and Liberal Democrats pledge to cancel Brexit. Boris Johnson has been called "infantile" for …
Liberal Democrats (UK) The Liberal Democrats are taking a risk they don't need over Article 50newstatesman.com - Ailbhe Rea The Liberal Democrats have officially made it their party policy to revoke Article 50 if they win a majority at the next election, in a move that …
Opinion A landslide for revoke shows the Lib Dem debate on Brexit is overnewstatesman.com - Patrick Maguire Those who are sceptical of the party's new policy of cancelling Brexit without a referendum are now massively outnumbered internally. Liberal Democrat …
Opinion Whose party is this anyway? That's the question gripping Liberal Democratsnewstatesman.com - Stephen Bush How much has the party been changed by Brexit? At the moment, the answer is: not as much as you might expect. How is Brexit changing the Liberal …
Jo Swinson Liberal Democrats' capture of Sam Gyimah boosts Jo Swinson's projectnewstatesman.com - Stephen Bush The Liberal Democrat leader has two aims: to stop Brexit and to reconfigure British politics. Sam Gyimah has become the latest MP to defect to the …
Opinion Don't put purity before growth, Lib Dem grassroots warnednewstatesman.com - Patrick Maguire Alistair Carmichael, the party's chief whip, cited the party's Brexit-inspired membership boom in an at times uneasy defence of the defection of …
Opinion Liberal Democrats decide to remove the controversial trans 'spousal veto'newstatesman.com - Ailbhe Rea A moving debate culiminated in the party conference backing a boost to trans rights. The Liberal Democrats have today made it their party policy to …
Opinion Liberal Democrat unease with Philip Lee spills out into the opennewstatesman.com - Stephen Bush Liberal Democrat unease over the arrival of Philip Lee, a defector, spilled out into the open during their debate on a platform of measures to move …
Opinion Why Parliament must be recalled from prorogationnewstatesman.com - Bill Esterson Right wing ideologues are trying to fundamentally reshape our nation with little or no scrutiny. My granddad understood the importance of …
Opinion Proroguing and prerogative: have the courts just upended our constitution?newstatesman.com - Anonymous The constitution is an intricate tapestry: pull at one thread at your peril, for you may find that the whole unravels. 2019 is fast becoming the year …
Opinion Marie Claire changed with its audience, but it couldn’t escape the media’s troublesnewstatesman.com - Jasper Jackson Few women's magazines will survive the economics of the web. Marie Claire is the latest women’s magazine to go out of print, and I wouldn’t hold out …
Doncaster This woman confronting Boris Johnson in Doncaster nails the Tory spending delusionnewstatesman.com - Anoosh Chakelian “All you’re going to do is put the same amount of police on the streets as what you took off.” There’s footage doing the rounds of a woman in …
Dominic Cummings What the GOV.UK data "plot" tells us about Boris Johnson's digital strategynewstatesman.com - Oscar Williams Conspiracy theories have emerged around Dominic Cummings's request for data, but the truth is probably more prosaic. In October 2016, Dominic Cummings …
Charli XCX Charli XCX's reckoning of pop is smart, receptive and never misses a beatnewstatesman.com - Ellen Peirson-Hagger The singer's long-awaited third album, Charli, marks her out as an innovative artist aware of pop's expanding possibilities. Officially, Charli is only …
Opinion The Fixed-term Parliaments Act has served its purpose by thwarting Boris Johnsonnewstatesman.com - Anonymous Without the existence of the much-maligned law, MPs would have been helpless against the Prime Minister. Following the government’s unsuccessful …
