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 ...

Next year is going to be hotter and, for you and everyone you know, dearer By Oli Dugmore There’s an arm-wrestle taking place in the sky. The ocean and the atmosphere exist in constant struggle: one ...

The party is split after voting to define Zionism as racism By Megan Kenyon Green Party members backed a motion to describe Zionism as racism on Sunday (4 October), with 1022 votes for and 813 votes ...

His defeat in Holborn and St Pancras will be read by internal critics as a failure of leadership and strategy By Megan Kenyon Zack Polanski has lost the Holborn and St Pancras by-election. The leader ...

The author and academic is worried about how AI will affect children’s ability to learn By New Statesman This week, the author and academic Katherine Rundell was interviewed by our culture editor ...

As prisoners in Louisiana, we watch on as executions return to death row By John Corley It was a mild spring evening in March 2025, just after 6pm, when Jessie Hoffman shuffled the few steps from his ...

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 ...

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 ...

Party conferences should come with a list of things that do and don’t exist. Black Labradors? No. Warm ale in a pub? No. No-go zones for white people in Luton? Yes. Reality? Uncertain. At the Tories’ ...

John Corley is the editor of the Angolite, the news magazine of the Louisiana State Penitentiary As prisoners in Louisiana, we watch on as executions return to death row ...

It was this time last year at Labour Party conference when a stressed Labour MP, muttering grimly about his party’s future, told me something that stuck with me. “Trust me, our biggest threat is still ...

Sunshine and rain greeted Labour’s delegates in Liverpool for this year’s conference, literally and metaphorically. While the weather couldn’t make up its mind, the Labour Party finally did after a ...