THE NEW STATESMAN: The latest issue features Emily Lawford’s cover story shows how Nigel Farage, by calling mass deportation “impossible” in 2024, drove young online nationalists to Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain, whose small but growing vote now splits Reform’s and has pulled Farage and the mainstream right toward harder ethnic politics; Gideon Levy argues that Israel’s anti-Netanyahu bloc, which reaches 67 Knesset seats only by counting Arab parties that won a record 19 but that almost no one will govern with, has handed Benjamin Netanyahu a deadlock he can ride as caretaker or turn into a unity government; and Chris Thornton recounts how the five McCartney sisters’ campaign over their brother Robert’s 2005 murder in Belfast carried them to the White House and helped push the IRA to put its weapons beyond use, even though his killers were never convicted.

Nigel Farage’s bastards

How the Reform leader spawned a new generation of far-right opponents. By Emily Lawford

Israel’s change that never came

In an election defined by absurdities, the opposition coalition could hand victory to Benjamin Netanyahu. By Gideon Levy

A murder like no other

How five sisters’ brave battle over their brother’s slaying forced the IRA to lay down arms. By Chris Thornton