I think what grates most about the New Statesman, aside from the obvious, is that the market for "proto-edgy post-liberal online media" is a comically oversubscribed space, whereas "interesting British centre left features" essentially doesn't exist, why move from an empty space into such a full one

Lovely, Matthew.

I really don’t get why lots of political journalism is so tilted towards the gossipy “what a fun game!” side written by people qualified only to be paperweights when actual news has been happening for a while now. Why are they clogging up the system so much