Quick, run!
The paperback edition of my book — Between the Waves: The Hidden History of a Very British Revolution — is available to pre-order for 25% off at Waterstones, now!
The offer runs until midnight on Friday so BUY NOW!
Enter “FEB26”
Link here www.waterstones.com/book/between...
of all the interviews I’ve done this week, this podcast with @tommctague.bsky.social was probably the most reflective
m.youtube.com/watch?v=NiCH...
Fantastic new issue of the New Statesman out now!
Great, penetrating essay on Britain’s way forward by Paul Ovenden.
EXC interview with the Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez setting out an alternative socialist future.
And Ailbhe Rea on the fallout from Starmer’s Burnham battle.
I'm thrilled to announce I'm returning to the New Statesman as Political Editor in November. 🥳
An honour to step into @andrewmarr.bsky.social's legendary shoes as he becomes editor-at-large. Can't wait to get started with @tommctague.bsky.social and the whole team!
I’m only 2 chapters in but no hesitation in saying this is a must read for anyone invested one way or the other with UKs tortured relationship with Europe since the end of WWII and its ongoing cherry picking.
Terrifically detailed stuff
@nialloconghaile.bsky.social
@markpurch.bsky.social
Huge congrats to @tommctague.bsky.social whose brilliant #BetweentheWaves was launched last night, is published today & longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize. *proudretirededitorface*
04.09.2025 08:29 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Happy publication day @tommctague.bsky.social!
With a raft of rave reviews, BETWEEN THE WAVES has just been Baillie Gifford Prize-longlisted:
‘Even the most passionate Remainer — or Leaver — should enjoy it enormously... lucid, thoughtful & richly provocative’
Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times
Tanjil’s essay is now live. If you’re worried about the direction our politics now seems to be headed, please read and share this piece: newstatesman.com/politics/uk-po…
03.09.2025 08:18 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
I’m v proud to have published this beautiful, but mournful essay by the inestimable Tanjil Rashid. The age of migration is coming to an end. The age of deportation is upon us — threatening the essence of what it means to be British. You won’t read anything better this week👇
03.09.2025 08:17 — 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1The long history of Brexit
31.08.2025 13:42 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“Lucid, thoughtful & richly provocative… [McTague] tells his story with such dry and fair-minded intelligence that even the most passionate Remainer or Leaver should enjoy it enormously.”
Delighted with @dcsandbrook’s review of my book, Between the Waves
www.thetimes.com/article/fa75...
Exciting times for me as my book arrives!
‘Profound and intellectually scintillating’
—Anthony Seldon
‘A tour de force’
—Matthew d’Ancona
‘Political history at its finest’
—Peter Foster
‘Will stand for many years as the authoritative political history’
—David Kynaston
I'm now looking forward to @tommctague.bsky.social's book on the history of euroscepticism in Britain....
www.economist.com/britain/2025...
UK government needs to get a grip of the public finances. It's all looking a bit Truss-like
(magnitudes smaller, but these are UK-specific moves)
Read our cover story today, from the great @willdunn.bsky.social.
Reeves is painfully aware that reforming the tax system will require a major political battle. But she’s already being battered by endless squabbles as it is. This is the fight she needs to have.
newstatesman.com/politics/econo…
New Statesman cover this week. Online tomorrow. On newsstands Thursday.
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Cover story here: www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
25.06.2025 06:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🚨 🚨 🚨 This week’s @NewStatesman online now! @AndrewMarr9 on a set of crises this government — and perhaps British social democracy itself — can no longer afford. The sirens are beginning to sound🚨 🚨 🚨
25.06.2025 06:58 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0@robertsaunders.bsky.social hi Robert. Do you have a second to chat?
17.06.2025 06:41 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
www.newstatesman.com/politics/202... 💥 EXC: For my first edition of the New Statesman as editor, I went on the road with Keir Starmer, discovering a man far more emotional than I expected, struggling to articulate his deepest feelings — and those of the country he leads👇
12.06.2025 06:18 — 👍 108 🔁 27 💬 31 📌 26
I know I'm repeating myself nearly every week, but can I just say once again that this show - These Times with @tommctague.bsky.social and Helen Thompson - has become completely necessary to understand and gain perspective on what is going on at the moment. podcasts.apple.com/za/podcast/t...
18.03.2025 18:34 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 4 📌 0
Ever heard of the #MaraLagoAccord? When you stop hyperventilating, here’s a great conversation between Prof Helen Thompson and @TomMcTague.bsky.social… on Trump’s plan to bring trade and security into a single foreign policy space in order to restructure US debt.
open.spotify.com/episode/3R14...
EU members are squabbling over whose defence industry should benefit from new funds
on.ft.com/43xIlHl
Me: trade policy is nuanced and we shouldn’t rely on national stereotypes to predict wha-
The French: BONJOUR
Trying to stay sane amid the madness. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
04.03.2025 10:29 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 1
Strategic sovereignty for Europe (as France has long demanded, and Germany suddenly seems to want) makes plenty of sense ... until you ask the questions: Who's the sovereign? What is "Europe"? And what are their interests? Good piece from @tommctague.bsky.social: unherd.com/2025/02/are-...
25.02.2025 08:47 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
🚨 Early Ep Release! "The German Election: Friedrich Merz, “Independence” from America, and the Rise of the Far Right" 🇩🇪
Helen Thompson and I discuss the implications of Germany's seismic election.
Listen now! 🎧
pod.link/1685475850
In this week’s episode of These Times, Helen Thompson and I look at the history of American protectionism to try to understand Trump’s tariff war
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
