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Will Lloyd
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Will Lloyd
The New Statesman
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Deputy Editor, The New Statesman - [email protected]
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    Will Lloyd
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    Mar 18
    The cover story this week is about the nightmare war in Ukraine, which is becoming stranger and stranger as less and less attention is being paid to it. The story is about: The granite conviction among Ukrainians that this not a local conflict but one front in a third world war
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    Mar 18
    THE NEW WORLD WAR by @Will___lloyd As the fourth anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine approached last month, Zelensky inflated his rhetoric. He used the same formulation I had heard countless times from Ukrainians every time I visited. This was not a conflict between Ukraine
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    Will Lloyd
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    Jul 15, 2022
    I read Penny Mordaunt's book for @unherd. If this really is our next Prime Minister then its time to turn the lights off and shut the country down.
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    Penny Mordaunt is hard to read
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    Will Lloyd
    The New Statesman
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    Jul 5, 2023
    I reviewed Caitlin Moran's terrible new book about men for @NewStatesman
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    Has Caitlin Moran ever met a man?
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    Will Lloyd
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    Oct 29, 2025
    William, the next in line to the throne, sounds functionally illiterate: - cannot name a favourite author but does enjoy “Batman-related” moves - prefers oral briefings to written ones - will be the first monarch in generations to have not read Bagehot’s ‘The English
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    Oct 29, 2025
    NO MORE KINGS by @Will___lloyd Why we should abolish the monarchy. Faced with the reality of monarchy, people simply do what they always do. They become blind. The truth, that an estimated £13 million of public money was used for decades to furnish the Caligulan lifestyle of a
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    Will Lloyd
    The New Statesman
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    Feb 27, 2025
    I particularly disliked Sarkar’s account of the 2011 riots
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    Will Lloyd
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    Feb 27, 2025
    I reviewed Ash Sarkar’s grating memoir about how rubbish it is being on television all the time thetimes.com/culture/books/…
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    Will Lloyd
    The New Statesman
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    Feb 27, 2025
    I reviewed Ash Sarkar’s grating memoir about how rubbish it is being on television all the time
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    Ash Sarkar’s misadventures in the culture war
    In her leaden book, Minority Rule, the Corbyn activist and ‘viral outrage generator’ looks back at her years on the political front line — it is a tale of recriminations and stark failure
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    Will Lloyd
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    Feb 27, 2025
    She *could* have written War & Peace
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    Ash Sarkar
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    Feb 27, 2025
    Replying to @AyoCaesar
    Politics is war by other means. And media is politics by other means. I could have written War & Peace and the Rupert Murdoch newspapers would give it a 0/10.
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    Will Lloyd
    The New Statesman
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    Oct 21, 2024
    The British social contract is so broken that previously joke cities like Dubai have become plausible places for young Brits to live, work and raise families
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    Dubai’s allure to UK youth should raise alarm
    To engineers, financiers and ex-NHS staff the desert city looks like everything Britain is not: orderly, efficient and safe
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    Will Lloyd
    The New Statesman
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    Oct 6, 2024
    I reviewed Jon Sopel’s dismal new book about “Britishness” for @thetimes
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    Strangeland by Jon Sopel review — the bathos of an ex-BBC man
    The former BBC correspondent’s musings on his return to Britain read like they were tapped out in the back of a cab between the office and the East Dulwich semi
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    Will Lloyd
    The New Statesman
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    Sep 28, 2022
    I spent three days with the far-Left for @unherd in Liverpool, as they planned to abolish the monarchy, sang songs for Jeremy Corbyn, and generally avoided reality
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    The last days of Jeremy Corbyn
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    Will Lloyd
    The New Statesman
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    Nov 13, 2025
    Something strange keeps happening to Jeremy Corbyn reports @meganekenyon - he keeps being accused of being a “Zionist” at Your Party events. His team are bewildered.
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  • I wrote about another terrific week for our Royals, who continue to go from strength to strength, for @unherd
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    The Royal Family always wins
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    Will Lloyd
    The New Statesman
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    Sep 20, 2024
    This is not just untrue from a former editor of the FT - it’s conspiratorial. Anybody who reported on Sue Gray before the election would have spoken to people - in some cases her own friends and allies - who said that she struggled to manage complex systems, had a tendency to
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    Lionel Barber
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    Sep 20, 2024
    Forget the 170k salary, and its relative weight vis a vis other top civil servants, from day one the single aim of the Tory press and punditocracy was to remove Sue Gray from her powerful job in Downing st and thereby undermine Kier Starmer. The rest is history @RestIsPolitics
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    Will Lloyd
    The New Statesman
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    Oct 29, 2025
    This week the cover of the @NewStatesman is about getting rid of the Windsors, who have demonstrated over several decades that they are not fit to rule Britain
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    Abolish the monarchy
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