If Andy Burnham succeeds in the Makerfield by-election next month, Labour will immediately face a new challenge: a Greater ...

Inside Andy Burnham’s leadership bid – and the campaigns underway to stop him By Ailbhe Rea As Keir Starmer looked around his cabinet table on Tuesday morning, he met the gazes of people who had told ...

The London mayor on Labour’s “catastrophic” results in the capital, and the Chancellor’s “doom and gloom” putting off ...

We must stand against both anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim hate By Prince Harry Over the past several years, I have spoken about the consequences of a world in which outrage outpaces humanity – where ...

The rules of leadership contests are strange, and can be decisive ...

New polling exposes weaknesses in “brand Farage”. Nigel Farage and Reform UK are a real threat to Labour and the Conservatives alike. We’ve heard a lot about the strengths of the challenger party – ...

Why break a habit of a lifetime, I wondered as I headed to Dagenham to campaign on what would turn out to be a day the tectonic plates of British politics shifted. It was clear my time would be best ...

What is politics? Clichés are likely to abound in response to this question. The dirty pursuit of power, or the noble pursuit of the good life? It is, of course, both of these things and more. But for ...

Instagram taps into our competitive psychology and tendency for girl-on-girl bullying. By Freya India For years now, social media has been the villain du jour for spiking rates of anxiety, depression ...

Lee Siegel is a New Statesman columnist and the author of seven books, including The Draw: A Memoir and Why Argument Matters. He is co-host, with David Rieff, of the Invincible Ignorance podcast. In ...

The poet’s love letters to Fanny Brawne have been recovered. Some would rather they’d never been written Like sex, money is something that a lot of people spend a lot of time thinking about (and ...

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 ...