Our Cold War nightmares have returned as a global arms race By Katie Stallard In the autumn of 2022, the United States picked up intelligence that Vladimir Putin was considering a nuclear strike in ...

Your guide to the etiquette and manners of the new regime By Finn McRedmond Take your tie off, throw out your textbooks, load up TikTok – we do things a little differently around here. And c’mon son, ...

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 ...

Who will be Manchester’s next King – or Queen – in the North? At a hustings in Manchester, the mayoral candidates traded blows and brags By Will Dunn The drinkers outside the Slug and Lettuce on ...

I watched Mayo’s long wait finally end from a Dublin hospital By Luke O’Reilly It’s customary to begin with the curse. There are many different versions, but I’ll tell you the one I was told growing ...

A satirical “cockroach” party has become one of the world’s largest youth movements By Viren Naidu The Indian Air Force was recently drafted to execute one of the country’s most unusual operations. It ...

He would rather more countries had atomic weapons than offer US protection for free By Freddie Hayward “I think of the future, but I refuse to paint it,” the American poet Donald Trump told Playboy in ...

William F Buckley worshipped British conservatism. But now, the movement he created in America looks on the UK with contempt By Arvin Alaigh Throughout the 1970s, William F Buckley Jr reigned as the ...

Shiraz Maher is a contributing writer to the New Statesman. He became the gravedigger of the revolution that he helped lead Anjem Choudary personified an era of Islamic extremism. Our identity won’t ...

Dominik Leusder is an economist and writer based in London The Iran war cannot lead the left to submit to an anarchic world order The more it penetrates our daily lives, the less we seem to understand ...

Nicholas Harris is Senior Commissioning Editor (Ideas) at the New Statesman. He is also the TV critic. nicholas.harris@newstatesman.co.uk I’m oddly reassured by the existence of shows like Animal Park ...