In Vegas, Elvis performed for himself alone Baz Luhrmann’s concert film blazes new light on the King’s notorious Sin City years By Kate Mossman

What drives Gordon Brown? The elder statesman could be enjoying a lucrative semi-retirement on the speaking circuit. Instead, he’s campaigning for the downtrodden By Kevin Maguire

Dominic Sandbrook: "You fall in love with history" 🗣️ Tanjil Rashid speaks to Dominic Sandbrook on history, the liberal elite and the reading crisis

Why Arsenal are the liberal establishment’s favourite team, by Joey D'Urso

Eluned Morgan: Reform offers anger not answers The New Statesman sits down with the Welsh First Minister By @meganekenyon.bsky.social

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Will Andrew turn Labour republican? The arrest of the former prince has stirred a buried left-wing tradition into life By Ethan Croft

Donald Trump is preparing for war From Iran to Minnesota, the US military is becoming a projection of Maga The Weekend Essay, by Lee Siegel

In Gorton and Denton, the Muslim vote is fracturing. The Weekend Report, with @RMCunliffe.bsky.social

The relentless drudgery of wedding food It doesn’t have to be like this! By @finnmcredmond.bsky.social

The relentless drudgery of wedding food It doesn’t have to be like this! 🍽️ Silver Spoon with @finnmcredmond.bsky.social

Britain’s fraying constitution The monarchy and the House of Lords show how tradition is colliding with democracy By @georgeeaton.bsky.social

Scottish independence is sneaking up on Westminster The SNP are confident of calling and winning another referendum By Chris Deerin

"It is striking how many peers tried, and failed, to enter parliament by democratic means." 🖼️ @willdunn.bsky.social: The House of Lords's cosplay democracy

The questions the royals can no longer ignore It’s been six years since any Windsor addressed the Epstein scandal. That needs to change 🖊️ Will Lloyd

Young people can't get jobs. Does Labour care? 🖊️ Ella Dorn

Can the royal family survive? 📊 @bwalker.uk

Don’t abolish the OBR Scrapping the body won’t change the difficult choices that Britain faces By @georgeeaton.bsky.social

When I met Gisèle Pelicot By Victoria Derbyshire

Life and fate in Kolkata In a novel set in a dystopian Bengal, scarcity and climate exile have stripped the characters of their decency – but at what cost? By Abhrajyoti Chakraborty

Gordon Brown sends new Epstein dossier to police

What is misconduct in public office? An ancient offence under English common law, its modern incarnation dates back to a 2004 case By David Allen Green

Antonia Romeo becomes first female Cabinet Secretary 🖊️ Ailbhe Rea

Rutger Bregman: “This Trump phenomenon really is fascism” The Dutch historian on how morality has changed history, and how it could serve our current moment.

The writer who fought the Mafia Crime writer Leonardo Sciascia launched a political career to take on the Mafia and try to heal the malignant forces in Italian life 📕 Thea Lenarduzzi

Nigel Farage’s empty economic strategy “Reindustrialisation” is just nostalgic rhetoric By Andrew O’Brien

Based Labour wants to take back control 🖊️ Ethan Croft

How politics went hyper The passions that once drove the left have faded, while the populist right marches on By Anton Jäger

Reform is looking beatable The party is losing rather than gaining popularity – but can Labour benefit? Today's Morning Call, with @georgeeaton.bsky.social

“Dismay” as No 10 works with Brendan Cox after misconduct claims The husband of the murdered Labour MP Jo Cox resigned from three charities after various allegations By @anooshc.bsky.social

Robert Jenrick’s Tory transformation of Reform begins Restoring the two-child benefit cap in full runs contrary to Farage’s changing line By Ethan Croft

Do you want to be part of Donald Trump’s new empire? Marco Rubio has made Europe an offer it must refuse 🌎 James Schneider

The Olney Pancake Race has been run on Shrove Tuesday since 1445 By @anooshc.bsky.social

Starmer humiliated Wormald – but his problems with the Blob remain The civil service believes it must deliver or risk being replaced By Ailbhe Rea

Live from the Olney Pancake Day Race!!! In Olney, women limber up for the race of their lives @anooshc.bsky.social flips the batter in This England

Marco Rubio doesn’t think about Europe at all The Munich Security Conference revealed how far Repulicans – and Democrats – have moved away from their old allies. By Freddie Hayward

Britain is in denial on defence Politicians have not prepared the public for a dangerous new era Today's Morning Call, with @georgeeaton.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/politi...

Woolley brings my attention to a photo of the civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, who came to Homerton to receive an honorary fellowship and who was Woolley’s mentor for years. “I would watch him go into an auditorium of 5,000 people, and he would walk on stage,” he says.

The Bone Temple and the return of the fable Alex Garland’s films 28 Years Later and The Bone Temple draw on deep veins of British belief By Aled Maclean-Jones

John Gray: The dark side of the Enlightenment

There is no working class party. Politics has fallen behind new class dynamics. 🖊️ @anooshc.bsky.social

Tony Blair is old Labour now 📺 @nickpaulharris.bsky.social reviews The Tony Blair Story

Starmer’s war with Big Tech Banning social media for under-16s gives the PM a chance to unite his party and the country By @georgeeaton.bsky.social

The Jews who critique Israel There is another tradition of Jewish thought, one which dissents from the world-view of modern Israel By Yahia Lababidi

Don't email a p*dophile By Séamas O'Reilly

Britain is getting poorer, and angrier. We have become a precariat nation. By @meadwaj.bsky.social

George Saunders goes supernatural The writer’s new novel Vigil suffers from its ambition 📕 Leo Robson

In Bicester Village, England is for sale This England, with Emily Lawford

Even Labour MPs are haunted by student loans @meganekenyon.bsky.social