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Boris Johnson faces Tory backlash after U-turn in Owen Paterson sleaze row

New Statesman 04 Nov 2021

... standards procedure and will bring forward new plans ... Mills was among the Tory MPs who told The New Statesman on Wednesday that the Johnson’s plan – which effectively paused Paterson’s punishment — was hugely damaging to the reputation of MPs and made them all look corrupt.

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Climate, migration and democratic crises

New Statesman 04 Nov 2021

Are headline-grabbing pledges to reduce methane emissions and end deforestation realistic? Emily Tamkin in Washington, DC and Ido Vock in Berlin are joined by the New Statesman‘s environment and sustainability editor Philippa Nuttall and executive politics editor Tim Ross directly from the Glasgow summit.

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Are the UK’s most polluting companies really going to plan for net zero?

New Statesman 04 Nov 2021

Energy UK, which represents energy companies, told the New Statesman it has a plan to transition from fossil fuels to renewables, and has made good progress, cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 68 per cent over the past decade, “which represents over half of the UK’s reduction during this time”.

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World signals the beginning of the end for coal

New Statesman 04 Nov 2021

Overnight, 23 countries made new commitments to phase out coal power ... new unabated coal power by the end of this year ... And, as climate scientist Joeri Rogelj from London’s Grantham Institute told the New Statesman, “this analysis takes all announcements at face value.

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AI and automation: how can the UK prepare for the future of work?

New Statesman 04 Nov 2021

Following the publication of a recent New Statesman policy supplement on this topic, Spotlight convened an expert panel of politicians, academics and industry leaders to discuss how we can harness the efficiencies of advanced machine learning, while minimising workers’ exposure to some of the harmful consequences of automation.

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Subscriber of the week: Peter Sheal

New Statesman 03 Nov 2021

What do you do?. I’m an author and management trainer in the energy industry. Where do you live?. Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Do you vote?. Always. How long have you been a subscriber? ... What made you start? ... The New Statesman is….

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UK Covid tracker: the latest data by local authority

New Statesman 03 Nov 2021

The New Statesman has launched this page to track case rates and other key Covid-19 data on a local authority level across Britain. It will be updated weekly every Thursday as new data becomes available ... This page will be updated every Thursday evening as new data is released and will display the latest available figures at the time of publishing. .

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Mets offseason of free-agent uncertainty officially underway

AM New York 03 Nov 2021

The New York Mets have officially been relegated to a winter of maneuvering in a baseball world that sees their division rivals, the Atlanta Braves, as world champions ... While Baez is the shortest-tenured Met looking for a big deal, Conforto is the elder statesman of the position players looking for a new contract ... 7 at 5 p.m. ET to offer ....

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Britannia Chained: why the legacy of Brexit threatens Boris Johnson’s Global Britain

New Statesman 03 Nov 2021

“My point is that things could go backwards, and they could go backwards at a really terrifying speed,” Johnson told a group of reporters, including from the New Statesman, who travelled with him to Italy.

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Tory MPs feel voter fury after Boris Johnson blocks sleaze sanctions against Owen Paterson

New Statesman 03 Nov 2021

Boris Johnson has causally destroyed MPs’ already flimsy reputation for doing the right thing by moving to scrap parliament’s anti-sleaze procedures in the case of former cabinet minister Owen Paterson ... The outcome is a “terrible mistake,” Mills told the New Statesman. “I just think it is a disastrously foolish thing to do ... “This is about the process.

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Sadiq Khan: “I am the first green Mayor of London”

New Statesman 03 Nov 2021

It is fortunate Sadiq Khan is not a large man, because his team chose possibly the smallest cafe in Glasgow for his New Statesman interview. Khan is in town for Cop26 not merely as Mayor of London, but also in his new role as chair of C40 Cities, a powerful network of 100 global cities that are working together on climate change.

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The BBC needs to stand up for itself. Of all the UK’s news outlets, it ...

New Statesman 03 Nov 2021

Former BBC executives such as Roger Mosey (a New Statesman contributor) have been quick to pile on the clichés about liberal metropolitan bias without giving evidence of it ... The government is populated by politicians – spearheaded by the new Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries – who ...

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From the NS archive: The autumn climax

New Statesman 03 Nov 2021

The resumption of the Anglo-French offensive simultaneously with the opening of the new Balkan campaign brings us to the most critical phase of this year’s fighting ... A new chancellor arrives from nowhere] ... A selection of pieces spanning the New Statesman’s history has recently been published as “Statesmanship” (Weidenfeld & Nicolson).

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How fear makes us human

New Statesman 03 Nov 2021

Born into a working-class family in New York City in 1961, educated at Phillips Academy Andover and pursuing his doctoral work at the University of Chicago, he taught at Yale between 1998 and 2005 ... At this point the irony of Graeber and Wengrow’s “new history” becomes evident ... John Gray is a New Statesman contributing writer.

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Heat pumps: Norway roll-out offers lessons for Boris Johnson

New Statesman 02 Nov 2021

How to listen to the New Statesman Podcast ... The New Statesman Podcast publishes twice weekly, on Tuesdays and Fridays ... Subscribers to the New Statesman can access episodes a day early in our subscriber edition ... The New Statesman Podcast is available on all major podcast apps including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast, Google Podcasts and more.