What does the NHS winter crisis mean for patients?
With staff shortages and Covid backlogs, the health service faces a challenging few months.
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The Tory rebellion over onshore wind is a weather vane for Rishi Sunak’s authority
The government’s large “working” majority has become dysfunctional.
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How long can Suella Braverman hold on as Home Secretary?
Braverman’s incompetence has been exposed once again, after she struggled to explain what legal routes lay open to migrants.
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PMQs: The SNP’s defiant Ian Blackford takes centre stage
“The very idea that the United Kingdom is a voluntary union of nations is now dead and buried,” cried the…
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Keeping quiet on Brexit is a shrewd move for Labour now, but a strategic disaster in the long term
What is the opposition’s thinking about Britain’s place in the world?
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Boris Johnson is once again shown the door
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Letter of the week: The new resource war
Write to our contact form to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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The lessons of a housing tragedy, writing through rail chaos, and why good manners cost nowt
The death of Awaab Ishak should shame the nation, and must be a defining moment for the housing sector.
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