Freddie Hayward

I spent four days with Steve Bannon - we discussed fascism, Aleksandr Dugin, the Odyssey, Blue Labour and modernity. newstatesman.com/international-…

Zohran has massive challenges ahead of him, but he has plenty of opportunities to govern effectively and broaden the social safety net. He can be like the sewer socialists of the early 20th century. nytimes.com/2025/07/09/opi…

The UK in 2025: it’s now a terrorist offence, carrying a sentence of up to fourteen years in prison, to hold this cartoon from Private Eye

As first reported in the New Statesman last week…

NEW: - UK-US tech deal being held up by disagreements on end-to-end encryption - Americans focusing on other countries, while Brits want to finalise areas eg steel - Admin want NHS to rise prices on providers, to make US firms more competitive newstatesman.com/world/americas…

“I have no ideological position on this conflict. I approach it simply as a lawyer and a historian. But I sometimes wonder what Israel’s defenders would regard as unacceptable, if the current level of Israeli violence in Gaza is not enough. This is not self-defence. It is not…

"Maga’s youth culture, a decade in the making, now flourishes independent of actual events. It’s a social scene, a place to be seen, as much as a political movement. For once, culture lies downstream of politics.” @freddiejh8 newstatesman.com/international-…

Truly a great, if depressing, line from @freddiejh8 in @NewStatesman: "A nation of immigrants has become a nation of potential deportees" newstatesman.com/international-…

Danny Boyle's 28 Years Later offers a bleak picture of what the future has in store for Britain---a combination of: 1) blood-and-soil race war 2) palliative liberalism My essay for @firstthingsmag firstthings.com/rule-zombie-br…

Reporter: Yesterday you said you weren't sure who ordered the munitions halted to Ukraine—have you since been able to figure that out?  Trump: I have not thought about it.  Reporter: What does it say that such a big decision could be made inside your government without you…

CrowdSource this week! Subscribe and read! (& thank you to @freddiejh8 for sending a link!) x.com/WCrowdsLive/st…

My column from this week's magazine on the why the big, beautiful bill shows how fake Trump's populism is - via a Doge house party, New Jersey casinos and Zohran Mamdani. newstatesman.com/world/americas…

36% of young Americans want the British monarch back in charge. The Special Relationship lives on. @JLPartnersPolls

JUST RAISE TAX Rachel Reeves cannot tweak her way out of a crisis. The tax system must be torn down. The government’s attempt to save £5.5bn has failed, as did the attempt to cut the winter fuel allowance, with the government spending slightly more than if it had done nothing at…

I reviewed Sarah Vine’s hideous new memoir for @NewStatesman newstatesman.com/politics/2025/…

My conversation with @freddiejh8 about how we can deliver good-paying jobs and a new economic vision with strong labor protections and affordable housing, childcare, and healthcare: newstatesman.com/the-ns-profile…

“People underestimate the democratic spirit of our people" @RoKhanna and I went to a Phillies game, a town hall and met up in DC for this profile. We discussed wokeness, whether America is now "ordinary", and why he thinks the Dems can win in 2028 newstatesman.com/the-ns-profile…

Brilliant piece from @freddiejh8 in this week’s @NewStatesman — OUT NOW! The future of the American left?