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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At the Clacton count, I came face to face with Nigel Farage’s challenger By Anoosh Chakelian First came the Loonies. As counting agents at long trestle tables unfurled each ballot paper like an ...

Populist radicals are storming the Democratic Party. Is this the US left’s Maga moment? By Freddie Hayward A political revolution is happening on the left of American politics. This summer, a young, ...

The Reform leader didn’t turn up to his own by-election By Anoosh Chakelian Nigel Farage has won the Clacton by-election, in a contest boycotted by every other major party. But in the end, even he ...

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 ...

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 ...

All the locals we met were frustrated with politics and years of neglect By Anoosh Chakelian Clacton is a conundrum. A day out there can lead you from day-trippers enjoying the beautiful sandy ...

The Reform leader now looks like the one who can’t take a joke By Jonn Elledge The traditional choice after winning an overwhelming victory in a by-election you triggered yourself would be to do some ...

The new film leaves you baffled by what the Bourdain cult was ever about By David Sexton When Anthony Bourdain took his own life in 2018 at the age of 61, the New Statesman’s tribute proclaimed him to ...

Nigel Farage is a canny political operator. There was a strategy behind his decision to resign the Clacton constituency and force a by-election. Reform’s vote share is on a downward trend in the ...