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 ...

Andy Burnham has promised to “change politics” with a new political and economic model for Britain. In his first Downing ...

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 ...

Over the course of Andy Burnham’s 25 years in politics the man who is about to become prime minister has said little about foreign policy. Foreign leaders and diplomats tapping up contacts for ...

Make sense of a new government with the help of our political reporters By Ailbhe Rea, Ethan Croft and Megan Kenyon Follow along live as we bring you the latest updates from Westminster on the ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

The introduction of new prime ministers is becoming a mass media ritual By Will Dunn It’s 8.42am on Monday 20 July. We’re on the scene in Downing Street with only two-and-a-half hours to wait before ...

Lawrence Freedman is emeritus professor of war studies at King's College London. His writing for the New Statesman includes in-depth analysis of the war in Ukraine and European history. Peace is the ...

After Exeter’s announcement that it will cut 150 academic jobs, is there any hope for higher education? By Ella Dorn The sleepy city of Exeter has become the locus of the country’s fraught battle over ...

Andrew Marr is editor at large of the New Statesman. He is a former political editor of BBC News, and hosts Tonight with Andrew Marr on LBC radio. This is no way to govern Also: Tory-Reform electoral ...