The New Statesman

KEMI ISN'T WORKING by @Will___lloyd Inside the Conservative Party they know it will take more than a reshuffle to solve their problems. Kemi Badenoch struggles in her everyday job as Leader of the Opposition: avoiding the media, doomscrolling on her iPad and disappearing into…

"Punk. Elvis Juice. Hazy Jane. Wingman. Malt Fiction. Crazy Monk." @jimmy__mcintosh: Brewdog Britain is dead newstatesman.com/culture/life/2…

This government is losing the battle of ideas. @steverichards14: Words fail Keir Starmer newstatesman.com/politics/2025/…

Ukraine turns on Volodymyr Zelensky: newstatesman.com/world/europe/u…

"I sense that Starmer believes any display of ideological verve is a route to electoral defeat." @steverichards14: Words fail Keir Starmer newstatesman.com/politics/2025/…

Drink up your Lost Lager – it’s last orders. @jimmy__mcintosh: Brewdog Britain is dead newstatesman.com/culture/life/2…

The paragraph break here is delicious: newstatesman.com/politics/uk-po…

This is VG. My conspiracy theory re. Kemi is that she was never intended to be PM, they brought her in purely as a one-woman Greek chorus to goad their more powerful opposition. If they actually had a chance in 2024 they'd have picked Jenrick

A masterclass in political profile-writing, by my friend @Will___lloyd newstatesman.com/politics/uk-po…

Thank you @Anoosh_C for mentioning my first book, Tenants, in this brilliant article on the topic of the moment @NewStatesman newstatesman.com/politics/uk-po…

Will has written a superb piece about Kemi Badenoch which doubles as a charge sheet for the British political establishment

This by @Will___lloyd in the @NewStatesman is the most devastating profile of a politician I can remember. You think it's just the cringey story of poor Kemi Badenoch realising she's out of her depth. Then you realise what else is lurking in the water. newstatesman.com/politics/uk-po…

"The hardcore Maga base elected Trump to reveal the corrupt cabal that was tricking America into decadent decline. He was the captain of their resistance." 🖊️ @freddiejh8: The Epstein conspiracy has unmasked Trump as a faux-populist newstatesman.com/international-…

"Conspiracy theories are not a bite-sized hors d’oeuvre in Maga world; they are the main course." 🖊️ @freddiejh8: The Epstein conspiracy has unmasked Trump as a faux-populist newstatesman.com/international-…

Trump told his Maga base to look the other way. Now it’s looking at him. 🖊️ @freddiejh8: The Epstein conspiracy has unmasked Trump as a faux-populist newstatesman.com/international-…

"The air is thick with invocations of 1976 – the year when the plummeting value of the pound forced Jim Callaghan’s Labour government to accept a £2.3bn bailout from the International Monetary Fund." 🖊️ @georgeeaton newstatesman.com/politics/econo…

"The hardcore Maga base elected Trump to reveal the corrupt cabal that was tricking America into decadent decline. He was the captain of their resistance." 🖊️ @freddiejh8: The Epstein conspiracy has unmasked Trump as a faux-populist newstatesman.com/international-…

Can Rachel Reeves avoid a new fiscal crisis? Even the Chancellor’s supporters fear Britain’s plight could soon get much worse. 🖊️ @georgeeaton newstatesman.com/politics/econo…

Can Rachel Reeves avoid a new fiscal crisis? Why even her supporters fear Britain’s plight could soon get much worse. newstatesman.com/politics/econo…

"Conspiracy theories are not a bite-sized hors d’oeuvre in Maga world; they are the main course." 🖊️ @freddiejh8: The Epstein conspiracy has unmasked Trump as a faux-populist newstatesman.com/international-…

Absolutely bruuuutal stuff here. "Some of those who know her well, including those who once believed that she had something special, think the loss of confidence derives from a realisation that she is out of her depth"