Labour is being told to pick a side in a battle of economic arguments. We say the future will be built from both By Mark McVitie and Mathew Lawrence We are the authors of two arguments recently ...

Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve star in an unforgettable exploration of soulless cityscapes By David Sexton There’s a back story to Backrooms. Since 2011, a creepy photo has circulated on message ...

In the mad world of the British far right, faith and thuggery jostle for attention By Emily Lawford On the road to Parliament Square, men kept stopping Kate to tell her she was beautiful. She was a ...

Rather than a relic of the past, Britain’s best known classist sees the ancient world as a powerful tool for understanding the present. By NS Podcasts Rather than a relic of the past, Mary Beard sees ...

Should the UK rejoin the EU? Caroline Lucas and Anand Menon weigh in By Caroline Lucas and Anand Menon On 11 May, following the disastrous results of the local elections, Keir Starmer delivered a ...

Would a new PM scrap Shabana Mahmood’s immigration reforms? New research suggests the Home Secretary is not trusted on immigration by Labour voters By Ethan Croft They used to say that, at the Home ...

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 author of Taiwan Travelogue and her translator Lin King speak on making art about a country under threat By Catharine Hughes This week, Taiwan Travelogue, a book rejected multiple times by ...

Nicola Sturgeon’s now estranged husband has brought shame on the SNP By Chris Deerin Peter Murrell was never one for the public eye. He was the archetypal backroom operator, forever lurking in the ...

Will Lloyd is the deputy editor of the New Statesman. He was previously a reporter at the Sunday Times and a pet insurance salesman in Sydney, Australia. The two jobs had nothing in common. He lives ...

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 ...

Ethan Croft is a New Statesman political correspondent. One of Keir Starmer’s former allies has turned on him and resigned from parliament There is now a serious effort to remove the Prime Minister ...