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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 “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 ...

Next year is going to be hotter and, for you and everyone you know, dearer By Oli Dugmore There’s an arm-wrestle taking place in the sky. The ocean and the atmosphere exist in constant struggle: one ...

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 ...

What is to blame for the Middle East? Beneath the violence and instability that afflict the region lies not religion but a loss of sovereignty By Faisal Devji “How kings played, how they became ...

His defeat in Holborn and St Pancras will be read by internal critics as a failure of leadership and strategy By Megan Kenyon Zack Polanski has lost the Holborn and St Pancras by-election. The leader ...

The French novelist and screenwriter’s new book is an unsparing yet seductive portrait of his parents By Chris Tayler In January 1993, a man called Jean-Claude Romand killed his wife, their two ...