The New Statesman
Starmer’s resignation: ‘he had to admit he’s failed’
The political team reads the resignation as an admission of failure, and walks through how a landslide government ran out of road in under two years.
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The political team reads the resignation as an admission of failure, and walks through how a landslide government ran out of road in under two years.
Ed Conway puts the economic record into charts: growth, taxes and living standards, the numbers underneath the politics.
With Andy Burnham the frontrunner to replace Starmer, the panel asks what a Burnham government would actually do, and whether a new leader changes Labour’s arithmetic.
The case for a smaller civil service, and why making the state work better proved so much harder to deliver than to promise.
A clear primer on the Union edging towards a multi-speed Europe, where groups of member states integrate at different paces. Useful background to where a small state like Malta sits as the EU changes shape.
A snapshot of how fast the mood inside a governing party can shift, and what a 2024 landslide is actually worth eighteen months on.
Bloomberg totals up the wider economic cost of Brexit, for Britain and beyond. Sharing is not endorsement of every figure, just of a debate the UK still has not honestly closed.
Why the oil price spike everyone predicted never arrived, and what that says about energy, sanctions and the economics of the current US administration.
The wider backdrop to Malta's own demographic squeeze: why fertility is falling across rich countries at the same time, and why housing, costs and the age of independence are so tightly bound up in it.
A documentary argument about the money and interests behind Brexit, and how political decisions of that scale get shaped. Sharing is not endorsement of every claim, just of the questions it raises.
Three weeks after leaving the cabinet, the former Health Secretary gives a blistering critique of Starmer, sets out where he thinks Labour went wrong, and weighs his own leadership ambitions.
Mazzucato makes the case for “common good” economics: pre-distribution over re-distribution, whether that means fewer billionaires, and what she makes of a wealth tax.
Rory Stewart and Matt Clifford ask an Anthropic co-founder why he is uneasy about what he is building, who is really in charge of AI, and whether governments can still regulate it.
The economist behind Labour’s original growth pitch argues markets should serve society, makes the case for mission-driven government, and weighs the net zero versus growth debate.
Robert Peston and Steph McGovern press former Chancellor Jeremy Hunt on whether Britain is stuck in a debt and tax doom loop, how to cut welfare, and the case for giving regional mayors more power.
Speaking to Times Radio, the former prime minister urges Keir Starmer to tear up Ed Miliband’s net zero targets and use the savings to cut taxes for working people.
The Treasury Select Committee chair argues student debt is dragging on the economy, drawing on 52,000 survey responses, most calling the interest and repayment terms unreasonable.
In conversation with William Thomson in Edinburgh, the tax campaigner and accountant traces the lens he reads the economy through and sets out how and why to build a fairer, more sustainable one.
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