The New Statesman can exclusively reveal the Chancellor’s finalised top political team By Ailbhe Rea John Healey has finalised the appointments to his top political team in the Treasury, including a ...
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 ...
The world is burning, but right-wing parties want to add fuel to the flames By Oli Dugmore My second daughter turns 100 days old this week. For 25 of those days the temperature has exceeded 30°C ...
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 ...
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, ...
Zack Polanski’s party will take aim at her immigration reforms should she be appointed chancellor By Megan Kenyon The Green Party plans to accuse Shabana Mahmood of “fiscal constraint and economic ...
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 ...
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 ...
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,” ...
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 ...
We created the nuclear monster. We must warn against it now New Statesman ...
The translator of Homer’s classic poem, now adapted for the big screen, explains the text’s enduring power By Tanjil Rashid Daniel Mendelsohn is a literary polymath; he writes memoirs, monographs, ...