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 ...

Who gets to be British? A Russian, a Romanian and a Canadian walk into a citizenship ceremony, and pledge allegiance to Crown and country By Megan Gibson The trains were, of course, running late. In ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is the Maga White House’s latest impotent attempt to prove America’s masculine vitality By Freddie Hayward America under Donald Trump is becoming a moral wilderness. He has created a culture ...

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 ...

Will Dunn is business editor of the New Statesman. He writes on a range of topics including inflation, housing, the Bank of England, the world of work and the cost of living crisis. Andy Burnham and ...

From Christopher Nolan to Anne Carson, the classics are illuminating our savage world By Tanjil Rashid Last week, Marco Rubio flew to Athens, stood in front of the Acropolis and, with the Aegean sun ...

The Prime Minister’s course correction finally frees his MPs to address the disasters of Brexit By Ethan Croft Andy Burnham and his chief of staff James Purnell share rare history at Westminster. Both ...

The Greater Manchester mayor set out his case for “business friendly socialism” By Ethan Croft Andy Burnham has repeated his claim that Britain is too “in hock to the bond markets” and set out his ...

The husband of the murdered Labour MP Jo Cox resigned from three charities after various allegations By Anoosh Chakelian Charity leaders and former aides have expressed their “dismay” at the close ...