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

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 ...

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 motion has opened a rift at the heart of the party By Megan Kenyon Green Party members descended on Brighton on Friday (2 October) for the party’s annual conference. As well as gathering to listen ...

Adrian Ramsay said the party motion describing Zionism as racism “doesn’t reflect long-standing Green principles” By Megan Kenyon The former leader of the Green Party, Adrian Ramsay, has said he is ...

White House insiders reveal what they really think of Andy Burnham’s Britain By Freddie Hayward When Andy Burnham met Donald Trump in the modernist UN building beside New York’s East River on 22 ...

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 ...

Our short-sighted pursuit of cheap goods over national security has left us dangerously exposed By Ed Conway In March 1931 John Maynard Keynes wrote an article in this magazine, then the New Statesman ...

Despite the fanfare about Burnham saving jury trials, the core of Starmer and Lammy’s proposals remain By Rachel Cunliffe Over the summer I spent a day at Highbury Magistrates’ Court, a looming ...

Author Dan Wang on America’s existential battle for AI supremacy By Katie Stallard We had been promised America’s first electrified road. Dan Wang pulls out his phone again to check the map, squinting ...

The Prime Minister must avoid social democracy’s affordability trap By Anoosh Chakelian I write this column as SW1’s travelling circus of politicians, think-tankers and lobbyists emerge, headachey and ...

Zack Polanski can’t simply blame Andy Burnham – his brand is more toxic than it used to be By Ben Walker Six months ago, Zack Polanski could have won. Holborn and St Pancras wasn’t the most favourable ...