A murder investigation has been launched after the ex-Tory MP was found dead at home By Ethan Croft The veteran politician ...

Nigel Farage is facing his biggest challenge since he became an MP two years ago after a string of revelations about his ...

Nature had reasserted itself; marine scientists marvelled at the speed of algal growth By Katie Stallard How hard could it be? Sure, this was a decades-old problem, the solution to which had eluded ...

Can James Purnell do a better job than Morgan McSweeney? His new chief of staff role tells us a lot about Andy Burnham’s intentions By Ethan Croft Andy Burnham is set to appoint James Purnell, a ...

The Prime Minister made a statement outside No 10 this morning By Ethan Croft Keir Starmer will resign as leader of the Labour Party and prime minister, he has announced in a speech outside No 10.

If Burnham becomes prime minister, he will have to reconcile his promise to voters with the expectations of investors By Will Dunn As far as the bond market is concerned, Andy Burnham chose a good day ...

Andy Burnham will need to do more than follow the rules if he wants to lead Britain By Phil Tinline In his acceptance speech in the early hours of Friday, a victorious Andy Burnham sought to convince ...

The boycott movement is a response to occupation, not a rejection of Israelis as people By Ishai Menuchin The publication of Sally Rooney’s Intermezzo in Hebrew has understandably attracted attention ...

Finn McRedmond is a staff writer at the New Statesman. finn.mcredmond@newstatesman.co.uk Brits just can’t stop frying the hell out of chickens What does muntjac taste like? The restaurateur keeps ...

Quinn Slobodian is a New Statesman contributing writer and the author of Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy. The richest man in the world chose a strange ...

Donald John Trump, born in 1946, is president of the United States, after beating Kamala Harris in the 2024 election. His previous term in office was from 2017 to 2021. His first presidency was marked ...

The day after the riot, Simon Dorrington travelled from his home in Eastleigh, a small Hampshire town, to the spot where Henry Nowak died. He would have been at the protest himself but, with a ...