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Why Britain isn't working - with Alison McGovern, Minister of State for Employment
The number of working age people out of work in Britain 2010 was around 9 million. In 2025? Around 9 million. But why is worklessness in Britain now …
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Russia has been brought in from the cold
Donald Trump has reached out to Vladimir Putin, over the heads of Ukraine and Europe. The Western alliance is fracturing, so what comes next? Can Eur…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Did JD Vance boost Germany's far right?
Last Friday the US Vice President - JD Vance, took to the stage and railed against his country’s European allies, accusing them of not listening to v…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Why fiction matters - Deborah Levy
The novel is a living thing, argues author Deborah Levy in the New Statesman Goldsmith's Prize lecture.
Tom Gatti hosts Deborah Levy, author of Swimmi…
10 months, 4 weeks ago
The rise of the "super-council" - plus, assisted dying interview with Kim Leadbeater
Are local council changes "an attack on democracy"?
Rachel Cunliffe and Megan Kenyon join Hannah Barnes to discuss changes to the rules governing loc…
11 months ago
A Labour crash is coming
Keir Starmer is making a radical shift to appease Reform and "blue labour".
"There has been a conservative revolution going on around the world," says…
11 months ago
Who should decide how our children are taught?
The freedoms that the UK's academy schools have been granted could be curtailed.
Labour's Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill proposes centralising…
11 months ago
Trump's Florida Project: how the Sunshine State became the centre of power
Ten years ago the sunshine state was mainly known for its outlandish stereotypes: swamps, gators, retirees, Disneyland all the time. But now power is…
11 months ago
How America runs Britain
US investment already owns much of the British high street. Are "ignorant" politicians "selling the UK down the river"?
As Donald Trump announces new …
11 months, 1 week ago
Does Morgan McSweeney really run Labour?
Andrew Marr is joined by the authors of Get In: The Inside Story of Labour Under Starmer, Gabriel Pogrund and Patrick Maguire.
But while this is oste…
11 months, 1 week ago