Spent a wonderful wedding weekend in a city that celebrates its musical heritage, preserves its modernist icons, doesn’t let its grandest buildings fall into disrepair, has delivered road space reallocation that brings joy to the city and undergone an impressive quiet renaissance

🇵🇸 More than seven in ten Labour members said the government was wrong to proscribe Palestine Action, our exclusive poll with Survation. reveals labourlist.org/2025/08/palest…

Enjoyed discussing “ultimate beach reads” on the The New Statesman’s podcast with Finn McRedmond and Tanjil Rashid open.spotify.com/episode/6Ddc44…

For my birthday you should read me complaining about data deserts and cutting Reeves (some, small) slack 🤫 newstatesman.com/politics/econo…

Reeves is a landlord. Lammy too. Two stalwarts of ‘Labour First’, Jas Atwhal & Gurinder Josan, have over 20 properties between them. 3 of the leading 5 landlords in the Commons? Labour MPs. It’s a world away from Antony Crosland, never mind Keir Hardie! newstatesman.com/politics/econo…

Labour's king over the water – why disillusioned MPs are looking to Andy Burnham. newstatesman.com/politics/labou…

Andy Burnham has become Labour’s king over the water As their party’s woes deepen, disillusioned MPs are looking to the Greater Manchester mayor. 📫 Today’s Morning Call, with George Eaton newstatesman.com/politics/labou…

For The New Statesman, I wrote about Zarah Sultana MP's recent comments in New Left Review about Corbynism's capitulation on the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism, her own plans and ideas for the new left movement and ongoing fault lines in YourParty (name tbc). The New Statesman

Exclusive poll: Labour voters are rallying to Jeremy Corbyn. Nearly half of Labour voters would back a left-Green alliance. 📊 Rachel Cunliffe newstatesman.com/politics/conse…

EXCL: In his first interview since leaving prison, Roger Hallam speaks to The New Statesman about the 100 books he read inside, why Keir Starmer is a “disaster” and his blueprint for how Your Party can win 20% of the vote.

A conversation with John Swinney about independence and other stuff newstatesman.com/politics/scotl…

The rage of Dominic Cummings Britain’s rogue intellectual has predicted a civil war. Is he also cheerleading one? 🖊️ John Merrick newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/08/…

The Green Party leadership election is entering its final week. I wrote about the significance of this race for the party’s future direction, recent accusations of a “hostile takeover” and why this is a sliding doors moment for the Greens and to an extent, the left. The New Statesman

Excl: Torsten Bell to help lead Budget preparations as Rachel Reeves reshuffles her team. newstatesman.com/politics/labou…

Exc: Torsten Bell rises as Rachel Reeves reshuffles her team. The former Resolution Foundation head will help lead preparations for the Chancellor’s second Budget this autumn. George Eaton newstatesman.com/politics/labou…

I reviewed Andrew Lownie’s eye-popping and implicitly republican book about Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson for The New Statesman newstatesman.com/culture/2025/0…

Queen Elizabeth’s second son had everything he ever wanted. That was the problem. The wonderful world of Prince Andrew, by @will___lloyd: newstatesman.com/culture/2025/0…

You can see why RF Kuang sells so much. I’ve reviewed her new book Katabasis, out today: