The Reform leader didn’t turn up to his own by-election By Anoosh Chakelian Nigel Farage has won the Clacton by-election, in a contest boycotted by every other major party. The Reform leader secured ...

The author and Bloomberg columnist on the threat to global democracy By Oli Dugmore Oli Dugmore: There are two strands that I think are probably going to follow the course of our conversation over the ...

Nigel Farage is a canny political operator. There was a strategy behind his decision to resign the Clacton constituency and force a by-election. Reform’s vote share is on a downward trend in the ...

I’m willing to ignore that Burnham was born in Liverpool No one could sing away the politics at the first Fleadh to be held in Belfast Politics has become showbusiness because showbusiness has gone ...

All the locals we met were frustrated with politics and years of neglect By Anoosh Chakelian Clacton is a conundrum. A day out there can lead you from day-trippers enjoying the beautiful sandy ...

The Labour Party’s annual conference in September 1952 was uniquely brutal. Delegates arrived in Morecambe to lashings of rain: the Cumbrian peaks across the bay were barely visible. After a sobering ...

But did they ever go away? By Malachi O'Doherty On 24 July a car containing what police described as an “extremely significant” bomb was stopped by Irish police in County Monaghan. It was en route to ...

Andy Burnham’s early policy and communications blitz – eating pork scratchings and climbing ladders on TikTok, visiting the Barrow shipyard and Dover coastguard, promising cheaper buses and pubs – ...

Watch the full horror of our finances unroll before you Little details matter, and they add up At the Norfolk Snail Racing Championship, I tried and failed to coax my slug to victory A holiday in ...

Jim Davidson and Nigel Farage represent an England that will not go quietly By Nicholas Harris I went because he dared me. “What the f*ck do you want to come and see me fo? [sic] Just write I am ...

The New Statesman can exclusively reveal the Chancellor’s finalised top political team By Ailbhe Rea The new Chancellor of the Exchequer John Healey has finalised the appointments to his top political ...

It seemed that for Gen Z, condemning violence against women had become a bit passé By Emily Lawford A raven swoops over snowy London. A baby in a bonnet starts to cry. “The master of misfits returns,” ...