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The tension between soft left progressivism and a harder-edged, more conservative politics of security which defines this new emerging era, runs like a fault line through Labour
The world is in a Seventies-style flux, but can Labour "think the unthinkable" as the Thatcherites did?
The era of progressive hegemony is over
The deputy prime minister is, unlike many of her senior colleagues, not a working class Oxbridge meritocrat. Her rise is much more interesting than that
Has Labour arrived in power at exactly the wrong time for its brand of progressive centre-left politics?
The energy in western politics is with the populist right
A key challenge for any NS editor: what to do about the Labour Party?
The Trumpist MAGA movement has cultural roots that the left failed to understand or confront
The Southgate era is over but the spirit of Southgatism will endure
The Conservatives and SNP routed: the kingdom is more stable than at any time since the Scottish independence referendum of 2014
Rereading JG Ballard’s Empire of the Sun, from 1984, I understood that he had already anticipated the rise of China and the world to come
There is a deeper political tide turning beneath this approaching election result
Liberals and mainstream Conservatives loathe him. But he understands something important about the fractious mood in the country
Republican senators like the realism but not the progressive part of the Lammy Doctrine
Rayner is used to be being misunderstood and underestimated - but she is a politician for all Labour factions and has undoubted star quality
Even today Rushdie remains reviled by some as an anti-Islamic heretic but by others, rightly, as a heroic champion of free speech and the open society
“Nothing is personally OK for anyone”
At the end of the 1970s, as the post-war order crumbled, the Thatcherites had a radical solution to the political and economic crisis in which Britain was mired. Can Reeves, with her talk of new orthodoxies, effect a similar transformation today?
The Arab Street and the politics of Israel-Palestine have arrived in British cities
Haunted by the traumatic defeat of 1992, Labour is boxed in on tax-and-spend