Luke O'Reilly
@LucRaghallaigh
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News Editor at The New Statesman
London, England
Joined March 2018
I’m the news editor at the New Statesman. Looking to publish long-form reports, essays, and opinion pieces. Very open to length and form. We want scoops, new ways of thinking, and insights into worlds our readers don’t have access to. Pitch to me Luke.oreilly@newstatesman.co.uk
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One of the best in the business
I met very young and very excited communists at Revolution Festival for this week’s @NewStatesman Sketch
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SCOOP: Ex Labour MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle is defecting to the Green Party.
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A rebellion of 100 Lab MPs could add 75 basis points to the interest on govt debt, @willydunn was told for this week's @NewStatesman. "Over the course of the parliament, they said, this works out to an additional premium on debt of £1bn per rebel." https://t.co/A7BL6VyFne
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Governments are now at the mercy of unseen investors
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There are a ton of crazy details in this weeks pre-Budget @willydunn cover story about bond market vigilantes but this might be my favourite
MEET THE BOND VIGILANTES by @willydunn Next week Rachel Reeves will deliver her budget and, for all the talk of fiscal rules, headroom and tax rises, there is a higher power she must contend with. When the Chancellor goes for meetings in the City, she is rarely introduced to
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As I reported in the New Statesman over the weekend (though with all of the usual caveats)
Labour left wing prepare to move against Starmer
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After the latest updates our tracker is now at 21 👇
18 Labour MPs have now criticised the government’s asylum plans. Read the New Statesman’s tracker to find out who: https://t.co/Kav9QLe9RU
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Yes this is good fresh stuff
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Clifford Rowe’s paintings reflect the spirit of realist art in Britain during the interwar years, portraying people at work and at leisure. 'The Fried Fish Shop,' (1936) draws on personal memory and social history, recalling a once cheap, filling meal for the working classes.
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Read Ailbhe’s excellent piece here:
I've written this week's New Statesman cover story on how much trouble Keir Starmer is in. https://t.co/8c8bzxNuQe
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In February 1970, the Labour government began the electrification of the West Coast Main Line to Glasgow. The film conveys a sense of national mission in building this infrastructure project. A pride in our technical skill and industrial progress that we must rejuvenate today.
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SCOOP: Tim Davie is about to announce his resignation as Director General of the BBC, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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25 years since Kitchen Confidential, I wrote about Anthony Bourdain and all we got wrong about the man I also read his graphic novels so you don’t have to Latest for @NewStatesman
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What a Reform government could look like - my politics column in this week’s New Statesman. Pick up a copy from your local maximum security supermarket.
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“I’ve heard some truly shocking stories about failures of care and the consequences for families who are left picking up the pieces & enduring unimaginable loss…But what you have put to me, even against that context, is extremely serious & truly shocking” https://t.co/pduOAXkt4M
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Following our investigation into maternity services at Oxford University Hospitals Trust, the Health Secretary said it pointed to a “moral failure”
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"The capital of capitalism now has a socialist mayor." 🌎 @freddiejh8: How Zohran Mamdani won New York https://t.co/JOipHJowyV
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The city’s next mayor is now leading the opposition to Trump
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Danny Kruger's war on Whitehall 🖊️ @LucRaghallaigh: Reform’s new head of DOGE unveiled the party’s most ambitious suite of policies yet https://t.co/1g8fUit7XD
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Reform’s new head of Doge unveiled the party’s most ambitious suite of policies yet
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