Hannah Barnes

Happy paperback publication day! New and updated Time to Think is now available in paperback, ebook and audiobook. Available in bookshops and online: AMAZON: tinyurl.com/57cnm568 WATERSTONES: tinyurl.com/527y67np

Someone who expressed a wish for no forceps antenatally should have been counselled about caesarean at full dilation & planned caesarean *during antenatal care*. But normal birth policies preferred keeping women in ignorance & push for vaginal delivery. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

There's a gaping hole in leadership of the UK's statistics system. Not a good place to be. Robert Chote's departure as chair of UK Statistics Authority (which oversees the criticised ONS) adds to vacancies of national statistician & ONS permanent secretary bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

When broadcasters can no longer make programmes that hold truth to power, “that’s just a little bit of our freedom of speech gone”, Peter Kosminsky argues. Peter Kosminsky: We need a BBC that is brave newstatesman.com/culture/tv/202…

Peter Kosminsky: We need a BBC that is brave. The veteran television director and writer on Wolf Hall, the crisis in the BBC, how American streamers conquered British broadcasting, & the ‘craven’ Labour government that’s too scared of Trump to do anything newstatesman.com/culture/tv/202…

On grief, and the death of my beautiful brother. newstatesman.com/comment/person…

NEW DOC SHORT out. The fight over puberty blockers, hormones, etc. is often framed as inseparable from politics, but we show here why a broad coalition--yes, including lefties--is raising concerns or even supporting restrictions. jenniferblockauthor.substack.com/p/the-most-hea… YouTube link below.

ROBERT JENRICK: THE HARBINGER Nigel Farage has been thinking about Robert Jenrick. He recognises something in the younger man. An energy, an ability to channel attention towards himself, what Farage calls “vim”. “I’ll give him credit for some good videos,” he told…

One of the most unexpected letters of my life. A very sweet note from Norman Tebbit who had sent me a message of support when I got death threats from Combat 18. Never met him but mentioned this in the New Statesman.

Bob Vylan presented hatred as virtue and the crowd was seduced thetimes.com/article/89054e…

EXCL: Jeremy Corbyn and team repeatedly urged Zarah Sultana to walk back on launch of new party last week Leaked texts show Team Corbyn fury as senior aide wrote: “Neither Jeremy nor Laura [his wife] deserves to be treated with such a lack of respect" thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

Personally, I’m a huge fan of both…

For this week’s @NewStatesman weekend report, I wrote about why anger over the government’s actions on Gaza could unite the new left against Starmer.

Zarah Sultana's big messy surprise for Jeremy Corbyn. The Coventry South MP said she was co-leading a new party with Jeremy Corbyn. He does not appear to be too sure about that. @meganekenyon reports newstatesman.com/politics/2025/…

"It is vital that maternity services are not seen as just another part of the NHS that needs improving. For there is something bigger going on – something unique that cannot simply be explained by staff shortages, low morale or a lack of funding." newstatesman.com/politics/healt…

Wait til they find out how socialist the actual bible is. The New Testament is full of free stuff. Fishes, loaves, wine, leprosy treatment, you name it

Sir Keir Starmer on Rachel Reeves: 'We are all humans in the end' He tells @VirginRadioUK 'What I would say is — and you’ll understand this — in politics, you’re on show the whole time, there’s no hiding place. But we are humans in the end and sometimes personal things are…

The Sullivan Review part 2: 'Barriers to research on sex and gender' was published today. sullivanreview.uk/documents.php

Hannah Barnes: We need a culture change in maternity services There is something bigger going on than just staff shortages, low morale or lack of funding. @hannahsbee newstatesman.com/politics/healt…