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Labour has to give people something to hope for, not just offer despair
Labour's latest party political broadcast is well-made, moving - but politically, a repeat of the old failed strategy. In yesterday's @UKLabour's Political Broadcast, we met two families whose dream...
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Universal credit's costly helpline exposes the inequality of an...
Universally challenged. Another nanosecond, another disaster for Iain Duncan Smith's universally challenged welfare "revolution", universal credit. Following the programme being massively behind...
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The stage is set for Act II of Jeremy Hunt’s discredited play – The Weekend...
We are already seeing the consequences of Hunt's imposed changes, with increasing number of doctors leaving the profession. So, after months of high drama – involving brinkmanship over Acas, two...
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The NS Podcast #136: Prizes, prejudice and polls
The New Statesman podcast. This week, Helen and Stephen hand out half-term report cards to the Tory front bench. George Eaton brings us the latest from Westminster. And Barbara Speed joins to discuss...
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Creative destruction, Rupert Murdoch and the rise and fall of the Independent
Could the Independent, in going digital, be showing the way for the rest of the industry? Sadly, I think it's safer to put your money on Murdoch. The miracle of the Independent, which will stop...
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Jeremy Corbyn calls David Cameron's migrant benefits plan "irrelevant" rather...
The Labour leader avoids outright condemnation of the Tories' proposal to limit payments to EU migrants. The only part of David Cameron's EU renegotiation likely to attract public interest is his...
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Whether to leave or stay in Europe is a far bigger question than the...
Our EU membership is not tied up with migration, but it is tied up with British jobs, economic growth, and the security of our country. These are not trivial matters. But right now they are being...
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Performance art is a story of falling in love with the lens
A new exhibition at Tate Modern invites us to explore the ways we play for the camera. People behave differently when there’s a camera around. Everyone performs, putting on their happy face, their...
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Morning Call: The best from Gibraltar
A selection of the best articles about politics, business and life on the Rock from the last seven days. Ties between Gibraltar and the US appear to be strengthening, with a visit from congressman...
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Power to the parish: Christians in the UK are challenging the government on...
A new Christian campaign could help change the face of UK energy policy. The following mission statement hardly shouts revolution from the rooftops: “We want to make tackling climate action as normal...
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Why the Republican party should split
As the party of Abraham Lincoln devolves into the dark world of Trumpism, how nice it would be if GOP moderates found the courage to walk away. In 1981 several senior figures in the British Labour...
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“The worst things I’ve ever seen”: the paedophiles of Facebook, and the...
Reports of indecent images of children online have more than quadrupled since 2010. But how do you catch criminals hidden behind a social media profile?*/ Nicci Astin was scrolling through a Facebook...
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Withered but not aged: two memoirs from women flourishing in old age
Joan Bakewell and Diana Athill have both written books which prove the richness of work produced later in life. Four years ago I wrote a book called A History of Fiction in 294 Lives. Finishing it, I...
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Why the rest of the world should get a vote in the greatest reality TV show...
I've been watching so closely, I am now able to tell Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio apart almost 50 per cent of the time, though it’s still like watching the Chuckle Brothers trying to lead a fascist rally....
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Netflix’s Love is just the latest in a long line of not-your-typical-romcom...
Misanthropic, self-impeding, and downright irritating antiheroes are the genre’s new bread-and-butter, but not necessarily its inversion. “I have money. I can pay you back.” Mickey (Gillian Jacobs)...
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There’s more to supporting those with mental health problems than fighting...
It’s not just a case of goodies and baddies, those who get it and those who don’t. According to a survey conducted by the BBC to coincide with its In The Mind series, the stigma associated with mental...
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Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird, dies aged 89
The celebrated author Harper Lee has died at age of 89, reports al.com of Alabama Media Group, citing “multiple sources in her hometown of Monroeville”. The “reclusive” author won the Pulitzer Prize...
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How a "politics of listening" could change Britain
The act of listening may seem like a platitude, but it matters. Soon after his election as Labour leader in 2015, Jeremy Corbyn announced he would “listen to everyone,” claiming he “firmly believe[d]...
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Damian McBride returns to Labour fold despite Corbyn criticisms
Gordon Brown's former aide has been appointed as political adviser to shadow defence secretary Emily Thornberry. Just over a week ago, Emily Thornberry, Seumas Milne and Damian McBride were spotted...
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It's David Cameron, not his deal, that will keep Britain in Europe
It's the man who made the deal, not the deal itself, that Outers will fear. After days of negotiations, David Cameron got the deal he was after: a seven year “emergency brake” on EU-area migrants...
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