Andy Burnham has promised to “change politics” with a new political and economic model for Britain. In his first Downing ...

Our Cold War nightmares have returned as a global arms race By Katie Stallard In the autumn of 2022, the United States picked up intelligence that Vladimir Putin was considering a nuclear strike in ...

I think Charlie Kirk made the country a worse place. I believe his murder makes the country even worse By John Ganz There are two reasons Charlie Kirk was assassinated in Utah on Wednesday: one is the ...

The Unite the Kingdom protest in London quickly became something much grimmer than a nationalist street party. By George Monaghan It was meant to be a famous day. Attendees of the Unite the Kingdom ...

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 ...

Make sense of a new government with the help of our political reporters By Ailbhe Rea, Ethan Croft and Megan Kenyon Follow along live as we bring you the latest updates from Westminster on the ...

The great-power realist lets theory get in the way of fact. By Katie Stallard When the facts change, the Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Samuelson once said, I change my mind. Not so the realist ...

The New Statesman can exclusively reveal the Chancellor’s finalised top political team By Ailbhe Rea John Healey has finalised the appointments to his top political team in the Treasury, including a ...

The journalist and figurehead of the young Corbynite left on progressive politics in retreat and what the right got right. By Finn McRedmond The British left is losing. Labour is captured by the party ...

The left refuses to grapple with the realities of petty bourgeois life. By Dan Evans The photo showed a young, good-looking couple posing proudly on the landing of their newbuild house. The image was ...

In the 2024 general election, a lobbyist is 27 times more likely than a teacher to be a candidate. By Will Dunn With additional reporting by Megan Kenyon, George Monaghan, Jonny Ball, Samir Jeraj and ...