The Labour Party’s annual conference in September 1952 was uniquely brutal. Delegates arrived in Morecambe to lashings of rain: the Cumbrian peaks across the bay were barely visible. After a sobering ...

Andy Burnham’s early policy and communications blitz – eating pork scratchings and climbing ladders on TikTok, visiting the Barrow shipyard and Dover coastguard, promising cheaper buses and pubs – ...

Is David Thomson still watching? After a lifetime of critiquing film, Thomson seems instead haunted by “white spaces” By Jonathan Romney Previous histories of cinema by David Thomson have titles that ...

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 ...

Watch the full horror of our finances unroll before you Little details matter, and they add up At the Norfolk Snail Racing Championship, I tried and failed to coax my slug to victory A holiday in ...

The New Statesman can exclusively reveal the Chancellor’s finalised top political team By Ailbhe Rea The new Chancellor of the Exchequer John Healey has finalised the appointments to his top political ...

The murder of Ann Widdecombe has one lesson: both left and right need to detoxify our public discourse By Rachel Cunliffe “An attack on one politician is an assault on our democracy itself.” So said ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Irvine Welsh’s musical adaptation has more lows than highs By Kate Mossman Nothing suits the relentlessly arch mood of the 1990s less than a West End musical. No one was less likely to sing, or indeed ...

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, ...