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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Attempt 17ish: hand remains intact. I am trying to pierce a tin of peaches with an eight-inch freshly sharpened chef’s knife. It is day four inside my 366-square-foot apartment; my tin opener has ...

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 ...

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 ...

I had to get out of the forbidding maze of lanyards, parties and Harold Wilson By Pippa Bailey Twelve hours into my first Labour conference, and I have the curious sensation of having gone back in ...

The poet and novelist on judging the Booker and America’s insanity By Emily Lawford “This is the full butthole horse,” Patricia Lockwood says, pointing to a painting of a stallion’s flared behind. “He ...

We have entered a new era of state-backed shadow warfare By Katie Stallard Shortly after midnight on 27 September, a local farmer noticed three white vans stopped on a road near RAF Fairford in ...

We used to make things. Now we rent them from American companies Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine The Holborn and St Pancras candidate was ...