The Labour leader is coming under pressure to trigger a vote he can’t win. Here’s why.
In their correspondence, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin displayed the combination of realpolitik, illusion and hubris that is essential for really creative diplomacy.
A selection of the best letters received from our readers this week. Email letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
From gammon to centrist parties, 2018 has been a rollercoaster from start to finish. And, quite frankly, we’re glad to get off.
In the past five years, 450 GP practices have closed – and patients suffer when their doctors don’t truly know them.
My gratitude to my hosts-cum-landlords knows no bounds.
Your festive dose of gossip from around Westminster.
The veteran Bennite organiser on Brexit, Gramsci, the Soviet Union and planning for “when Jeremy and I are both dead”.
The explosion on Pan Am Flight 103 ripped the aircraft apart and the debris plummeted on to the roofs of the town.
I started just as Obama became president of the US and thought I was just passing through, on my way to the next challenge.
There can be the assumption that everyone has a safe family to withdraw to at Christmas.
