Andy Burnham doesn’t like to be rushed. Out and about, he likes to stop for a chat with members of the public. Advisers and ...

The 2026 Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted author on the dangers on conflating authors with their characters and the difficulty of interpretation ...

It was a throwaway line, 18 careless words that Rachel Reeves surely could not have predicted would cause such chaos when she delivered her 2025 Budget: “I will also keep the Plan 2 student loan ...

A new BBC podcast tries to make economic growth interesting By Rachel Cunliffe How do you make a topic that is vital yet (for the non-economist population at least) intrinsically dull sound fun and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

In the 19th century, painters found an untouched and utopian new subject in the Mediterranean coastline By Michael Prodger In 1892 Paul Signac helmed his small sailing boat into the harbour of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...