Did the Green Party top up its deputy leader’s wages with public money? Leeds City Council will review the allocation of £5,800 to Mothin Ali By Megan Kenyon The Green Party has been accused of using ...

The deportations and offshoring that Nigel Farage advocates are becoming facts of European politics By Alexander Etkind As the world heats up, Nazi wrecks are rising from the depths. Record-low water ...

Behind every headline was a human being: a son, a brother, a colleague and a teacher By Simon Woolley The millions of people around the world who encountered Professor Jason Arday through the deluge ...

He couldn’t stop Brexit and Brexit couldn’t stop him. Now he’s getting his life back By Ethan Croft One man, two houses. The first, a Victorian terrace made of kidney-bean bricks, with a white PVC ...

A young man has died. Where was the possibility of absolution? By Rowan Williams A young man who has lived with different kinds of disadvantage all his life is elevated to a position of influence and ...

Can a large language model learn literary judgement? By Phoebe Pascoe When Erin Hoover, the poet laureate of Cookeville, Tennessee, was getting her PhD in creative writing, her professor used to ask ...

The response from Pyongyang to the US president’s overtures has been silence By Katie Stallard Donald Trump appears to be trying to get Kim Jong Un’s attention. On 16 August, as the US military was ...

Whatever AOC now claims, the psychic distortions we call “woke” are the currency of American politics By Lee Siegel “Woke 1.0 was crazy.” So saideth Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and it’s a measure of the ...

Her new album Lost Weekend intertwines heartbreak and new love with grieving her father’s death By Hannah Ison Phoebe Bridgers is a motorbike-riding elf queen in the music video of “Lost Boys”, the ...

A UK politics podcast hosted by Anoosh Chakelian with contributions from New Statesman writers including political editor Andrew Marr. Awarded Best Political Podcast for the third year running at the ...

Celeste Marcus is the managing editor of Liberties: A Quarterly Journal of Culture and Politics This bloody, cursed year should transform our conception of evil. If he’s named as Kamala Harris’s ...

Since her fiery response to Rachel Reeves’s 2025 Budget, the Tory leader’s popularity has soared By Ben Walker Kemi Badenoch’s brand has never been better. Until Rachel Reeves’s 2025 Budget, few polls ...