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The peace paradox - New Statesman
4 days ago · The political calculations that allowed the Gaza ceasefire could yet be its undoing. By Yair Wallach The images that emerged on 19 January from Gaza and Israel felt like a much-longed-for reprieve. Three hostages, young Israeli women, were freed from Hamas captivity and united with their families in ...
Donald Trump can stay popular - New Statesman
3 days ago · I am not the first to speak of the Great American Vibe Shift. But in the week of Donald Trump’s inauguration it is important to remind ourselves: the arch-liberal pieties established in the 2010s have ebbed, and the dual bogeymen of the social conservative and the immigration hawk are no longer as toxic as they once were. Trump won in 2016 on a tight margin and an uneasy anti-establishment ...
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Team Trump’s real feelings about Starmer’s Labour
4 days ago · The sole Labour parliamentarian invited to Donald Trump’s inauguration was the maverick peer Maurice Glasman, the founder of Blue Labour. Glasman received his invitation through JD Vance, the new vice-president, and he also attended Trump’s pre-inauguration rally in Washington on 19 January in the company of Steve Bannon, who was the White House’s chief strategist in the early chaotic ...
Has Biden buried the American left? - New Statesman
6 days ago · Has Biden buried the American left? Scattered and listless, the movement this defeated president leaves behind must regroup quickly. By Justin H Vassallo In his farewell address last week, Joe Biden tried once more to summon the gravitas that eluded his presidency when he warned that “an oligarchy ...
Will the ceasefire last? - New Statesman
5 days ago · Trump has changed the calculus for Israel and the Middle East. By Bruno Maçães As the first phase of a long-awaited ceasefire and prisoner exchange between Hamas and Israel began on 19 January, almost 500 days after the 7 October attacks, one question loomed over all others: will it last? The ...
US - New Statesman
Has Biden buried the American left? Scattered and listless, the movement this defeated president leaves behind must regroup quickly. By Justin H Vassallo The return of Donald Trump
Americas - New Statesman
The political symbiosis of Eric Adams and Donald Trump. How New York City's mayor embraced the incoming president. By Ross Barkan Trump’s bluster conceals an old conservative script: cut taxes, slash the state
Britain is walking into an American opioid crisis - New Statesman
Dec 11, 2024 · The Office for Health Improvement and Disparities uses more direct, laboratory-based testing methods to create a more timely – and bleak – view of the unfolding drugs situation, revealing 179 nitazene-related deaths in England between June 2023 and May 2024. Scotland, which continues to have the worst drug death rate in Europe, saw a jump in nitazene deaths from just one case in 2022 to 23 ...