Andy Burnham doesn’t like to be rushed. Out and about, he likes to stop for a chat with members of the public. Advisers and ...

It didn’t seem to matter that these midterm elections could potentially see the President lose control of Congress for his final two years in office. What we were witnessing was a radical ...

Can Labour MPs accept the revised plans? By Ailbhe Rea It was the biggest consultation any British government has ever conducted. With more than 200,000 responses, Shabana Mahmood’s plans to change ...

It was a throwaway line, 18 careless words that Rachel Reeves surely could not have predicted would cause such chaos when she ...

The 2026 Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted author on the dangers on conflating authors with their characters and the difficulty of interpretation ...

The most important thing for any captain is not to capsize the ship By Andrew Marr The most significant big-picture take on this year’s Budget came before it was delivered, from the New Statesman’s ...

How the former first minister of Scotland came to lead the opposition to Israel’s actions in Gaza By Peter Oborne Humza Yousaf, author of Under Fire, an important and painfully honest testament, could ...

The dominance of Agatha Christie has obscured a dazzling generation of female detective writers By Susie Goldsbrough It’s hard to imagine Agatha Christie coming back as a ghost (supernatural ...

It is an inherently dishonest way to run a country By Will Dunn In recent decades, a sinister new force has assumed power in Westminster. They can appear in any political party. They are formidable at ...

Why can’t our culture tear itself away from depictions of chemsex orgies in a sexual underworld? By Huw Lemmey At his May 2026 trial for possession of crystal meth, former MP Crispin Blunt’s story was ...

An open letter to the government from leading authors, artists and public figures By New Statesman Sally Rooney is a writer, ...

The Sally Rooney affair shows how laws meant to target terrorism now suppress the freedom to dissent By Tanjil Rashid If you ever sought out the novels of Sally Rooney in bookshops – when that was ...