Trump’s “evil” is a “slick, charming recklessness” Rory Stewart joins us on the latest episode of The Exchange. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

BATTLE FOR POWER Inside the fight for the future of the Labour Party, by Ailbhe Rea. Read this week's cover: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Why Keir Starmer has gone to war with Elon Musk No 10 rejects the techno-libertarian worldview and knows the public is on its side 📫 Today’s Morning Call, with @georgeeaton.bsky.social

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EXPOSED: BRITAIN'S NEXT MATERNITY SCANDAL BY @hannahsbee.bsky.social

NO MORE KINGS by Will Lloyd Why we should abolish the monarchy.

DOOM LOOP by Andrew Marr I thought Labour would fix everything. I was wrong. Britain has become ungovernable.

THE EMPEROR by Freddie Hayward The ceasefire deal has revealed a world in which Trump rules like an emperor. Leaders court his favour. Institutions are ignored. Diplomacy is personal. Raw power dominates international law. It is a world of force, power, money and connections.

LIFE AND FATE by Sondos Sabra A three-month diary of anguish, famine and horror, made under bombardment in Gaza City:

Nigel Farage is now tied with Keir Starmer as “best prime minister” An exclusive Ipsos survey shows the Reform leader is level with his Labour opponent for the first time. 📫 Today’s Morning Call, with @georgeeaton.bsky.social

EXCLUSIVE: ANDY BURNHAM’S PLAN FOR BRITAIN by @tommctague.bsky.social

CAN ZOHRAN MAMDANI SAVE THE LEFT? By Ross Barkan UK EXCLUSIVE: On the campaign trail with New York’s new star This week's cover story:

THE GENTLE PARENT TRAP Online, primary school teachers complain about the legacy of the modern “gentle parenting” style. Discipline is going down the pan, they say, as kids turn everything into an endless negotiation: how will these people cope with the world? By Kate Mossman

THE SUMMER SPECIAL by @newstatesman.com 📔 @helenlewis.bsky.social writes the diary 🕴️@lewisgoodall.com gives Keir Starmer Japanese lessons 🔴Jonathan Dimbleby: The Palestinians

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What teenagers can teach us about love Lamorna Ash: Talking to young people aged 11 to 14 about matters of the heart, I heard a lifetime’s worth of romantic wisdom.

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ROBERT JENRICK: THE HARBINGER Read the first exclusive profile of Robert Jenrick. Online now, on newsstands Thursday. Link below.

JUST RAISE TAX After last night’s U-turn, Rachel Reeves cannot tweak her way out of this crisis. The system must be torn down.

EXCLUSIVE: For new editor of the New Statesman Tom McTague's first edition, he went on the road with Keir Starmer, discovering a man far more emotional than I expected, struggling to articulate his deepest emotions — and those of the country he leads.

This week's cover: The Housing Trap, by Anoosh Chakelian Inside: 🔴 @JillFilipovic.bsky.social on Trump's crypto hustle 🔴 Gaza's tipping point 🔴 Andrew Marr on skint Britain

Austerity’s Children – a special issue of Spotlight, the New Statesman’s policy supplement, guest edited by Gordon Brown. Inside: 🔴Alison McGovern 🔴Rachel de Souza 🔴Mike Brewer 🔴Tom Clark 🔴Harry Quilter-Pinner 🔴and more

Britain's Child Poverty Epidemic, a special issue guest edited by Gordon Brown Inside: 🔴 David Tennant on community, faith and inequality 🔴@aiannucci.bsky.social on the death of nuance 🔴 Terri White on our schools' lost children 🔴 Jamie Oliver on the battle for breakfasts

The cover: Why George Osborne still runs Britain By @willdunn.bsky.social ydunn Also inside: 🔴 Kate Mossman meets Gordon Brown 🔴 @hannahsbee.bsky.social on birth trauma 🔴 @georgeeaton.bsky.social: How Labour learned to love immigration control 🔴 Tom Cruise's ego trip 🔴 The end of privacy

This week's cover: The Peace Delusion, by Jeremy Bowen Inside: 🔴 Andrew Marr: How Labour can beat Reform 🔴 David Attenborough on our debt to the oceans 🔴 @jillfilipovic.bsky.social: Unhappy America

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This week's cover: The War on Whitehall How civil servants became the enemy. By William Davies. Also inside: 🖊️ Andrew Marr & Colin Kidd on Nigel Farage 🖊️ Kate Mossman on the art of listening

In this issue of Spotlight, we consider the impact of energy and climate policy. With expert analysis from Miatta Fahnbulleh, Adrian Ramsay, Dale Vince and Andrew Bowie. www.newstatesman.com/wp-con...

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