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Will Lloyd

Will Lloyd is a commissioning editor at the New Statesman.

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Meet Britain’s radical New Right

BY Will Lloyd / 7 mins

Why Matt Hancock’s latest career move makes sense

BY Will Lloyd / 2 mins

Another tough day for Gina Miller

BY Will Lloyd / 3 mins

Mock growth all you like, but on that point Liz Truss was right

BY Will Lloyd / 2 mins

Jan Morris: prophet of our gender troubles

BY Will Lloyd / 9 mins

Why Rishi Sunak will win

BY Will Lloyd / 5 mins

Welcome to the Tory apocalypse

BY Will Lloyd / 5 mins

An academic posing as an iron man

BY Will Lloyd / 3 mins

The last days of Jeremy Corbyn

BY Will Lloyd / 6 mins

Dad jokes galore as Keir Starmer meets Gary Neville

BY Will Lloyd / 2 mins

Angela Rayner: the class warrior Labour doesn’t need

BY Will Lloyd / 2 mins

A very British Hajj

BY Will Lloyd / 6 mins

England’s middle classes say goodbye to the Queen

BY Will Lloyd / 2 mins

Would you rather have Prince Andrew or free speech?

BY Will Lloyd / 2 mins

King Charles is no longer Hamlet

BY Will Lloyd / 2 mins

Boris Johnson kicks off his campaign to become PM (again)

BY Will Lloyd / 2 mins

Liz Truss speech: awkward pauses and limp applause

BY Will Lloyd / 2 mins

Martin Lewis has run out of ideas

BY Will Lloyd / 2 mins

Why the Tories turned on Rishi

BY Will Lloyd / 5 mins

How Camilla became Queen

BY Will Lloyd / 6 mins

How we gave up on Salman Rushdie

BY Will Lloyd / 7 mins

Sunak and Truss vie for the world’s worst job

BY Will Lloyd / 2 mins

Prince Harry becomes Mandela in UN speech

BY Will Lloyd / 2 mins

Penny Mordaunt is hard to read

BY Will Lloyd / 7 mins

The truth about Kemi Badenoch

BY Will Lloyd / 2 mins

Thatcher burns bright at ‘Conservative Way Forward’ event

BY Will Lloyd / 2 mins

Carnival scenes on the last night of Boris

BY Will Lloyd / 3 mins

Dominic Cummings: ‘We are all doomed’

BY Will Lloyd / 3 mins

How to fly a Spitfire

BY Will Lloyd / 8 mins

How Churchill ruined Boris

BY Will Lloyd / 6 mins

Winston Churchill needs better defenders

BY Will Lloyd / 3 mins

Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells turns on Boris Johnson

BY Will Lloyd / 2 mins

1,791 days later, Boris Johnson returns to GMB

BY Will Lloyd / 2 mins

Oxford University didn’t cause Brexit

BY Will Lloyd / 5 mins

Piers Morgan Uncensored: like Tucker Carlson, but camper

BY Will Lloyd / 2 mins

Gary Neville won’t save Labour

BY Will Lloyd / 7 mins

The tragedy of Matt Hancock

BY Will Lloyd / 8 mins

Why London loved Roman Abramovich

BY Will Lloyd / 5 mins

This is how despotism ends

BY Will Lloyd / 7 mins

Shock and despair at London’s Ukraine protest

BY Will Lloyd / 3 mins

Virginia Woolf predicted her own cancellation

BY Will Lloyd / 3 mins

How Farage had the last laugh

BY Will Lloyd / 6 mins

Boris Johnson was made and unmade by television

BY Will Lloyd / 2 mins

Farewell, then, Gina Miller

BY Will Lloyd / 5 mins

Ghislaine Maxwell’s guilty soul

BY Will Lloyd / 7 mins

Dickens hated Oliver Twist

BY Will Lloyd / 5 mins

Is Ghislaine Maxwell winning?

BY Will Lloyd / 2 mins

The melancholy decline of the semicolon

BY Will Lloyd / 2 mins

Prince Charles has finally won

BY Will Lloyd / 5 mins

Nobody can reform the National Trust

BY Will Lloyd / 2 mins

Power is corrupting the Tories

BY Will Lloyd / 6 mins

Boris Johnson’s speech was a joke

BY Will Lloyd / 3 mins

Michael Gove channels his inner Disraeli

BY Will Lloyd / 2 mins

Ben Houchen understands ‘Johnsonism’ better than Boris

BY Will Lloyd / 2 mins

Centrism always fails

BY Will Lloyd / 5 mins

Is Gordon Brown the new Brendan O’Neill?

BY Will Lloyd / 2 mins

The war on Martin Amis

BY Will Lloyd / 6 mins

David Graeber’s last essay

BY Will Lloyd / < 1 min

The man who lost Afghanistan

BY Will Lloyd / 7 mins

England fans can’t be beaten

BY Will Lloyd / 5 mins

The sad decline of Oliver Stone

BY Will Lloyd / 2 mins

Labour’s problem is not George Galloway: it’s Arthur Balfour

BY Will Lloyd / 3 mins

Why Labour won’t win back Britain

BY Will Lloyd / 6 mins

Substack is doomed to fail

BY Will Lloyd / 6 mins

The ‘old normal’ is alive and well in Venice

BY Will Lloyd / 2 mins

Will Steven Pinker lose the bet of the century?

BY Will Lloyd / 2 mins

Prince Harry has swapped one zoo for another

BY Will Lloyd / 2 mins

Why the joke is on Count Binface

BY Will Lloyd / 7 mins

England’s other Saint George

BY Will Lloyd / 7 mins

The decline of Standard English is not progress

BY Will Lloyd / 2 mins

Twilight of the centrist dads

BY Will Lloyd / 5 mins

The many deaths of Virginia Woolf

BY Will Lloyd / 6 mins

Bristolians have always loved rioting

BY Will Lloyd / 2 mins

The Royal Family always wins

BY Will Lloyd / 5 mins

Why it’s time to abolish schools

BY Will Lloyd / 6 mins

The War on Terror returns home

BY Will Lloyd / 7 mins

Xi Jinping addresses Davos — from a parallel universe

BY Will Lloyd / 2 mins

Don’t count Josh Hawley out

BY Will Lloyd / 2 mins

Fox News starts to pivot away from Donald Trump

BY Will Lloyd / 2 mins

The Merchant of Venice deserves to be cancelled

BY Will Lloyd / 2 mins

Who’s behind Marcus Rashford?

BY Will Lloyd / 6 mins

Bill Barr, midwife to the dictatorship that was never born

BY Will Lloyd / 2 mins

Climate doomsters are giving children ‘eco-anxiety’

BY Will Lloyd / 2 mins

Joe Biden’s coronavirus adviser: life should end at 75

BY Will Lloyd / 2 mins

Are any Republicans still backing President Trump?

BY Will Lloyd / 4 mins

Christopher Hitchens is still right about Borat

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