Zack Polanski’s latest appearance on Newsnight had been planned for weeks before he walked through the doors of New Broadcasting House on 28 July. But when the day finally came, the Green Party leader ...

The New Statesman can exclusively reveal the Chancellor’s finalised top political team By Ailbhe Rea The new Chancellor of the Exchequer John Healey has finalised the appointments to his top political ...

Who will be Manchester’s next King – or Queen – in the North? At a hustings in Manchester, the mayoral candidates traded blows and brags By Will Dunn The drinkers outside the Slug and Lettuce on ...

I watched Mayo’s long wait finally end from a Dublin hospital By Luke O’Reilly It’s customary to begin with the curse. There are many different versions, but I’ll tell you the one I was told growing ...

It seemed that for Gen Z, condemning violence against women had become a bit passé By Emily Lawford A raven swoops over snowy London. A baby in a bonnet starts to cry. “The master of misfits returns,” ...

We created the nuclear monster. We must warn against it now New Statesman ...

Inside Vladimir Putin’s bunker, his war was going according to plan. The Kremlin released footage of Russia’s supreme commander-in-chief meeting his generals at a command post on 3 July, wearing ...

With Marine Le Pen now free to run in next year’s election, France is entering uncharted political territory By Julian Jackson Since his impulsive decision to dissolve parliament in 2024, which led ...

Uniting capital and labour is easier in rhetoric than in government By Vladimir Bortun After weeks of growing scrutiny over the £5m gift received from the Thailand-based billionaire Christopher ...

Zack Polanski’s party will take aim at her immigration reforms should she be appointed chancellor By Megan Kenyon The Green Party plans to accuse Shabana Mahmood of “fiscal constraint and economic ...

Irvine Welsh’s musical adaptation has more lows than highs By Kate Mossman Nothing suits the relentlessly arch mood of the 1990s less than a West End musical. No one was less likely to sing, or indeed ...

The murder of Ann Widdecombe has one lesson: both left and right need to detoxify our public discourse By Rachel Cunliffe “An attack on one politician is an assault on our democracy itself.” So said ...