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 ...

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Watch the full horror of our finances unroll before you Little details matter, and they add up At the Norfolk Snail Racing Championship, I tried and failed to coax my slug to victory A holiday in ...

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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 ...

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 ...

The translator of Homer’s classic poem, now adapted for the big screen, explains the text’s enduring power By Tanjil Rashid Daniel Mendelsohn is a literary polymath; he writes memoirs, monographs, ...