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

New polling shows a majority of the public want to rejoin By Ethan Croft The fullest plan yet for the UK to rejoin the European Union has been published in the wake of the Prime Minister’s call for a ...

Despite the fanfare about Burnham saving jury trials, the core of Starmer and Lammy’s proposals remain By Rachel Cunliffe Over the summer I spent a day at Highbury Magistrates’ Court, a looming ...

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 ...

Sunshine and rain greeted Labour’s delegates in Liverpool for this year’s conference, literally and metaphorically. While the weather couldn’t make up its mind, the Labour Party finally did after a ...

Our short-sighted pursuit of cheap goods over national security has left us dangerously exposed By Ed Conway In March 1931 John Maynard Keynes wrote an article in this magazine, then the New Statesman ...

White House insiders reveal what they really think of Andy Burnham’s Britain By Freddie Hayward When Andy Burnham met Donald Trump in the modernist UN building beside New York’s East River on 22 ...

Andy Burnham has announced that he would “adjust” the triple lock policy on the state pension, and explained that this would be done in order to free up money for a national care service. This makes ...

Who gets to be British? A Russian, a Romanian and a Canadian walk into a citizenship ceremony, and pledge allegiance to Crown and country By Megan Gibson The trains were, of course, running late. In ...

The limits of Sinn Féin’s “New Ireland” have been exposed By Eoin O'Malley It is a case of déjà vu. The most recent stand-off at Drumcree, County Armagh, which began on 27 September when nationalists ...

AI is returning us to an era of demons and gods By John Gray Age-old fears of the end times have returned in warnings that artificial intelligence may engineer human extinction. From the Norse myth of ...