What if she has a point? Really great interview revising the Liz Truss legacy by @willdunn.bsky.social: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Fascinating column by @rmcunliffe.bsky.social on the "Boomer Soli" and “mandatory social service” for new retirees ideas in Germany -

If you're at Labour conference, @archhfund.org.uk is joining @moreincommonuk.bsky.social & @nationaltrust.org.uk to discuss how heritage & community driven regeneration should be central to reviving places & civic pride. Looking forward to it! @patrickhurley.bsky.social @anooshc.bsky.social

My latest column for the @newstatesman.com - on the far-right's "mothers":

Shocking detail in this great report by Faye Curran on pregnancy, birth, and raising babies in English prisons: www.newstatesman.com/politics/hea...

As the government celebrates data centre investment, it's worth looking at what new data centres actually do to a place - my column: www.newstatesman.com/politics/soc...

Disturbing dispatch from yesterday's rally by @georgemonaghan.bsky.social: www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

“My goodness, where does JK Rowling get the time to obsess about me? I hate to tell her that it’s just not reciprocated.” My interview with Nicola Sturgeon:

Citizens of nowhere versus citizens of the left-hand-bloody-side-of the road... My piece on sweary stand-offs during London's Tube strike between regular cyclists and Lime bike riders, the gentrifiers of the bike lane:

“I won’t vote again.” My column this week is a report from Reform Country, where free speech shrivels on contact with the local press:

“I won’t vote again.” My column this week is a report from Reform Country, where free speech shrivels on contact with the local press:

I increasingly wonder if this is down to so many government people still using X and mistaking that for an actual measure of public opinion. Poll after poll after poll has shown that British voters don't like small boats but they hate street violence and open racism much more.

Great interview about a fascinating council by Harry Clarke-Ezzidio:

Terrific piece on England by my greet @uclpolicylab.bsky.social colleague James Baggaley: www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

“There is a risk of polarising every landlord as ‘evil’ - we must make sure we don’t fall into that trap.” Lumped together as "Gaza Independents", the 4 independent MPs working with Corbyn & Sultana are more varied than that - as I found out from Shockat Adam: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Really interesting that support for *all* left-of-centre parties dropped as salience of immigration rose after "island of strangers" speech - our exclusive:

“There is a risk of polarising every landlord as ‘evil’ - we must make sure we don’t fall into that trap.” Lumped together as "Gaza Independents", the 4 independent MPs working with Corbyn & Sultana are more varied than that - as I found out from Shockat Adam: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

'As the right throws around phrases such as “medieval attitudes to women”, is there any attitude more medieval than, “They’re coming for our women and children”?' Great piece by Andrew Marr on Labour's immigration dilemma: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

"I, too, would not be possible, would not be English, without those old histories, which the right now seeks to bury beneath the footsteps of deported masses." @tanjilrashid.bsky.social writes beautifully on the age of deportation in this week's @newstatesman.com cover story:

Great analysis by @rmcunliffe.bsky.social taking in my insistence on the @newstatesman.com Podcast yesterday that Keir Starmer should have been playing in a sandpit at a nursery on the first day of term:

What does Zack Polanski stand for and how does he distinguish himself against the Green Party MPs? Worth rewatching our @newstatesman.com Podcast debate here!

My piece on Douglas Carswell's journey from blue-sky thinking to the gutter: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

The robots are stealing our houses! My latest @newstatesman.com column, which leads me from the Isle of Dogs to North Ockendon on the data centre trail:

We know a lot about what makes people vote Reform. But what kind of opposition messages might Reform or Farage be vulnerable to? Some new @persuasionuk.bsky.social research out today as featured on @newstatesman.com pod! Give it a read if you want. strongmessagehere.substack.com/p/what-messa...

Worth relistening to @rmcunliffe.bsky.social and my chat with @steveakehurst.bsky.social on the @newstatesman.com podcast who did a clinical trial-style experiment on what messaging against Reform UK worked among a cross-section of voters:

Shameless hopping on this to promote my column from last week: the cost of living is the number one issue. Inflation really matters. It is a reliable government killer. Yet hardly anyone in Westminster talks about it:

Very good to be back on the @newstatesman.com podcast with @anooshc.bsky.social earlier, discussing why we're having one of our periodic worries about civil war: m.youtube.com/watch?v=4urb...

My two cents on the Epping decision -

"Their leader and their parasite, the great England-hating patriot, is back with them." Great piece by Nick Harris on the return of Tommy Robinson:

“In focus groups from Worthing to Clacton to Ilford North, people are talking about sewage.” The politics of water is changing England:

"Here is pie, here is soda bread, here is a pork chop, here is full-fat unadulterated butter, and no I don’t want my feta whipped and I certainly don’t want my wine to be orange." Loved this in our summer issue by @finnmcredmond.bsky.social -

Interesting deep dive by @bwalker.uk into Reform's enduring, but changing, "woman problem":

This is great - public barbecues are exactly the sort of affordable public service* that makes life better for people, and allows people to have fun without spending a lot of money. * Really very cheap - just needs occasional tidying up. Even installing them is not very expensive.

My piece for the @newstatesman.com summer issue on the "Lime bike-ification" of public parks:

Why is it that we’re not only disagreeing with our political opponents, but assuming they are con artists? My piece for Saturday's ‪@theguardian.com‬ on the rise of the word "grifter" as a political insult: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"It is time to ensure that the legitimate concerns of ethnic minorities in Britain – about a concerted effort to dissolve foundational social norms against racism, and to deny our status as equal citizens – are heard too" www.easterneye.biz/british-ethn...

Beautiful piece by @rmcunliffe.bsky.social on her stumble through her family history: www.newstatesman.com/world/europe...

My piece on vanishing barbecue pitches for the @newstatesman.com summer special - feat. a great George Orwell essay that dedicates three paragraphs to park railings:

My piece on vanishing barbecue pitches for the @newstatesman.com summer special - feat. a great George Orwell essay that dedicates three paragraphs to park railings:

Stats are flying around a lot at the moment appearing to link certain foreign national groups with sex crimes. Here's why you should handle them with caution: www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

The shadow justice secretary is spouting statistics that simply don’t add up. 🖊️ Anoosh Chakelian:The problem with Robert Jenrick’s migrant sex crime claims

My piece on the problem with Robert Jenrick's migrant sex crime statistics: www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

There was a time when Deliveroo riders were invisible - now, they're a target. Here's how that happened, and what it says about the politics and protest around asylum: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Great piece

'Deprivation and social dislocation, not levels of immigration, were the most common factors in riot-hit areas last summer, according to a report shared exclusively with the New Statesman that has been read in No 10.' - reports @anooshc.bsky.social ‬ 1/ www.newstatesman.com/cover-story/...

"The asylum hotel policy could be a parable for all that is wrong with the British state... A tired tale of cuts, broken pledges, neighbourhood neglect and poor-value outsourcing." Essential cover story from @anooshc.bsky.social in this week's NS. www.newstatesman.com/cover-story/...

Pod! @georgeeaton.bsky.social, @rmcunliffe.bsky.social and I discuss the asylum hotel policy and other challenges for the government on the latest episode of the @newstatesman.com podcast: shows.acast.com/newstatesman...

“This town is empty, it’s dead; people haven’t got money to shop anymore. I worry about my future grandchildren: life is shit now, what will life be for them?” From a brilliant, balanced report by @anooshc.bsky.social.👇

“I thought England was a good place, more welcoming than Europe, and would help a lot. Now it feels like a hostile land.” My report on the asylum hotel tensions, and what they reveal about Britain:

“it is not inconceivable that Keir, Wes and Shabana could all lose their seats” Great report by @georgeeaton.bsky.social on Labour's summer of discontent: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...