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

The Green Party leader’s boast of replacing Labour has become a cautionary tale By Megan Kenyon On a drizzly morning last September, Zack Polanski delivered his first speech as leader of the Green ...

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 ...

New polling shows a majority of the public want to rejoin By Ethan Croft The fullest plan yet for the UK to rejoin the European Union has been published in the wake of the Prime Minister’s call for a ...

Despite the fanfare about Burnham saving jury trials, the core of Starmer and Lammy’s proposals remain By Rachel Cunliffe Over the summer I spent a day at Highbury Magistrates’ Court, a looming ...

The party is split after voting to define Zionism as racism By Megan Kenyon Green Party members backed a motion to describe Zionism as racism on Sunday (4 October), with 1022 votes for and 813 votes ...

The limits of Sinn Féin’s “New Ireland” have been exposed By Eoin O'Malley It is a case of déj vu. The most recent stand-off at Drumcree, County Armagh, which began on 27 September when nationalists ...

Adrian Ramsay said the party motion describing Zionism as racism “doesn’t reflect long-standing Green principles” By Megan Kenyon The former leader of the Green Party, Adrian Ramsay, has said he is ...

The motion has opened a rift at the heart of the party By Megan Kenyon Green Party members descended on Brighton on Friday (2 October) for the party’s annual conference. As well as gathering to listen ...

White House insiders reveal what they really think of Andy Burnham’s Britain By Freddie Hayward When Andy Burnham met Donald Trump in the modernist UN building beside New York’s East River on 22 ...

The author and academic is worried about how AI will affect children’s ability to learn By New Statesman This week, the author and academic Katherine Rundell was interviewed by our culture editor ...

The “Zionism is racism” motion crossed a very significant red line By Caroline Lucas Perhaps Zack Polanski was never going to win Holborn and St Pancras. It’s been a Labour stronghold for more than 50 ...