An open letter to the government from leading authors, artists and public figures By New Statesman Sally Rooney is a writer, ...

The Sally Rooney affair shows how laws meant to target terrorism now suppress the freedom to dissent By Tanjil Rashid If you ever sought out the novels of Sally Rooney in bookshops – when that was ...

New polling shows a majority of the public want to rejoin By Ethan Croft The fullest plan yet for the UK to rejoin the European Union has been published in the wake of the Prime Minister’s call for a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Despite the fanfare about Burnham saving jury trials, the core of Starmer and Lammy’s proposals remain By Rachel Cunliffe Over the summer I spent a day at Highbury Magistrates’ Court, a looming ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

In north London, we have been in by-election frenzy. Apart, that is, from all the old chaps fast asleep outside the pubs, and the heedless children, and the rest of the world getting on with its ...

White House insiders reveal what they really think of Andy Burnham’s Britain By Freddie Hayward When Andy Burnham met Donald Trump in the modernist UN building beside New York’s East River on 22 ...

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’ ...