Tomorrow, the Green Party’s leader, Zack Polanski will unveil the party’s candidate for the Manchester mayoral by-election – ...

A year-long investigation into medical transition treatment at WellBN found “wholly inadequate” care By Hannah Barnes Children as young as 12 have been prescribed masculinising and feminising hormones ...

The Manchester mayor’s comments triggered a response from No 10 By Ethan Croft The subtext of the Makerfield by-election became text in Thursday night’s Question Time special as Andy Burnham confirmed ...

Rather than a relic of the past, Britain’s best known classist sees the ancient world as a powerful tool for understanding the present. By NS Podcasts Rather than a relic of the past, Mary Beard sees ...

Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve star in an unforgettable exploration of soulless cityscapes By David Sexton There’s a back story to Backrooms. Since 2011, a creepy photo has circulated on message ...

To be a Neet is to feel a singular shame and self-loathing, a sense of being apart from everybody else By Joseph Williams Like a chain coffee shop calling its smallest cup a “regular’” the Department ...

The author of Taiwan Travelogue and her translator Lin King speak on making art about a country under threat By Catharine Hughes This week, Taiwan Travelogue, a book rejected multiple times by ...

Nicola Sturgeon’s now estranged husband has brought shame on the SNP By Chris Deerin Peter Murrell was never one for the public eye. He was the archetypal backroom operator, forever lurking in the ...

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Lee Siegel is a New Statesman columnist and the author of seven books, including The Draw: A Memoir and Why Argument Matters. He is co-host, with David Rieff, of the Invincible Ignorance podcast. In ...

There is no such thing as the “Asian community”. The label was imposed on a generation of migrants a In the wake of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto we revisit our October special on Pakistan in ...