New polling of Greater Manchester residents, exclusive to the #NewStatesman, shows widespread public opposition to Labour’s #NationalExecutiveCommittee decision to prevent the region’s mayor from standing!

#AndyBurnham #KeirStarmer #GortonAndDentonByElection #UKLabour

No surprise that the #UK Information Commissioner’s Office (#ICO) sees possible criminal fraud in #ZarahSultana's launch of a #YourParty membership system.

But why has #ICO not directly notified the police? There is great #popcorn potential in #Corbyn having to give evidence against the renegade #Sultana. But crime on this scale should be investigated regardless of internal politics. #ukpol

Report from #TheNewStatesman https://archive.is/hnASe / #NewStatesman https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2026/01/your-party-advised-to-refer-unauthorised-membership-launch-to-police

The grotesquely belated UK royal defenestration of #exPrince Andrew is too little too late. Even the soggy Starmerite #NewStatesman is now calling for an end to the monarchy.

But not yet. The NS is passive, and wants #PrinceWilliam to voluntarily quit when his father dies. #GoodLuckWithThat 🙄

Mike Small says it's time for the #ScottishIndependence movement to put a #ScottishRepublic at the centre of the campaign for an independent #Scotland👍 #NoKings

https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/10/30/the-crisis-of-the-british-monarchy/

#AndrewMarr has abandoned #KeirStarmer, but not his misreading. "Starmer, I insist, is a decent man with strong public values." https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2025/10/i-thought-labour-would-fix-everything-i-was-wrong

#Starmer is just a frontman for #MorganMcSweeney, whose goal is only to destroy the left. Starmer lied his way to #LabourParty leader, purged the left, but brought no vision, won #GE24 only by a quirk of #FPTP, and smashes liberties.

As political editor of The #NewStatesman, Marr has projected onto Starmer talents which nobody else sees.

I used to be a fan of the #OhGodWhatNow, #PoliticsJoe and the #NewStatesman podcasts. But it has been fucking WILD how out of touch they are when it comes to Israel/Palestine.

So called progressives parroting hasbara like they work for Shin Bet.

I noticed it months ago but at this point it’s basically inexcusable. Unsubscribing from that shit ASAP.

#BeckyBarnicoat in the #NewStatesman.

#cartoon

Recognising Palestine: Britain’s responsibility

Britain finally recognises its historic responsibility

September 2025

Last week, Sir Keir Starmer finally agreed to the UK recognising the state of Palestine a decision which has angered Israel itself and the USA or at least President Trump. In all the debates, panel discussions, broadcast interviews and statements by politicians, the historic role played by Britain, when it was a world power, has barely been mentioned. It is almost a though there is a blanket of embarrassment which is placed over the events in the region similar in many ways to the silence around the atrocities of slavery and the acquisition, and subsequent attempts to retain, our Empire. All sides refer to the events of October 7th, which, terrible though they were, were just one act in a drama that goes back to the Great War.

In an article in the New Statesman: Britain has a historic responsibility to aid the establishment of a Palestinian state by William Dalrymple in the ‘Another Voice’ column (19 – 25 September) he discusses our grim historic role which has had direct and lasting effects today. Most are familiar with the Balfour Declaration of 1917 which supported the national home for Jewish people in Palestine. How the existing population was to be treated was left vague. The British then disarmed the indigenous people and arrested their leaders and sent them to prison camps in the Seychelles and Cyprus. He recounts how the infamous black and tans were brought into quell the local population.

Considerable violence was inflicted on the Palestinian people with thousands of houses destroyed and thousands interned in concentration camps enduring violent interrogation and torture. Those between the ages of seven and 16 were flogged he says. Over 30 Arabs were executed. Such was the damage done to the Palestinian leadership that when the British pulled out in 1948, they were in no position to cope with the next phase of their misery when the Jews arrived who unleashed further violence in the Nakba.

The British have a special responsibility he argues to see the establishment of a Palestinian state who have suffered as a direct result of our actions over a century ago. Yet this violent history and mistreatment, murder and displacement of hundreds of thousands seem to be of no consequence in the reporting and interviews in our media. Instead, there is a relentless focus on the massacre on October 7th almost as though it came out of the blue.

Today (25 September) the American Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee was interviewed on Channel 4 news. It was not made clear to viewers that Huckabee is a Christian Zionist and says that on religious principle that the land of Israel belongs to the Jewish people and frequently guiding Christian pilgrimages to Israel since the 1980s. Neither was it explained that he has denied the existence of a Palestinian people and supports settlement activity on the West Bank and Gaza strip. On his organised trips he avoided Bethlehem as it was mostly occupied by Palestinians. He focused all his comments on the violence committed by Hamas. He had no answer to Matt Frei’s options for the Palestinians of either displacement, genocide or apartheid living as second class citizens in Israel. He repeated the canard that bombing was targeted on terrorists and that Hamas were using human shields.

Dalrymple ends his piece: ‘We must continue to believe in freedom and justice and dignity and decency and human rights. To dream of a world where Palestinians are not burned alive in their tents or herded like cattle from refugee camp to refugee camp to their final slaughter. We must dream of a Palestinian state alongside Israel where Palestinians can live in safety and without fear. And we must work to make sure that our dreams of an actual Palestine will one day soon become a reality’.

Over 65,400 have died in Gaza since hostilities started.

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#BalfourAgreement #British #Dalrymple #Gaza #Huckabee #NewStatesman

The Online Safety Act humiliates us all | New Statesman

Starmer has admirable qualities, but he is also a moralising disciplinarian reflexively becoming more and more himself amid the troubles of a hard first year. Labour struggles, people get locked up for tweets. Labour struggles, people can’t protest for Palestine. Labour struggles, people can’t watch porn. Now, keeping children away from porn is as wise, if not wiser, than keeping them away from cigarettes. But even if we could enforce it, which we can’t, this policy is not the way to do it. The government should withdraw the act and Kyle should apologise to Farage. Starmer, meanwhile, should stick to the strategy.

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2025/08/the-online-safety-act-humiliates-us-all

#ageVerification #censorship #newStatesman #onlineSafety #onlineSafetyAct #surveillance