Katie Stallard is the senior editor (China and global affairs) of the New Statesman and author of Dancing on Bones: History and Power in China, Russia and North Korea. She was previously a fellow at ...

Andy Burnham doesn’t like to be rushed. Out and about, he likes to stop for a chat with members of the public. Advisers and ...

Snap polling shows this was Labour’s best received Budget since 2003 By Ben Walker The slogan for this Labour Budget was “breathing space now, fresh hope for the future”. Although it contained few ...

Martin McDonagh swaps Ireland for Easter Island in a male-bonding caper about the stories we tell ourselves By David Sexton Martin McDonagh would kill for a joke. Just look at the body count in his ...

The 2026 Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted author on the dangers on conflating authors with their characters and the difficulty of interpretation ...

The foreign policy expert on spheres of influence and what America First really means By Megan Gibson Fiona Hill knows more than almost anyone just how fraught this geopolitical moment is. The British ...

Can Labour MPs accept the revised plans? By Ailbhe Rea It was the biggest consultation any British government has ever conducted. With more than 200,000 responses, Shabana Mahmood’s plans to change ...

It was a throwaway line, 18 careless words that Rachel Reeves surely could not have predicted would cause such chaos when she ...

Lawrence Freedman is emeritus professor of war studies at King's College London. His writing for the New Statesman includes in-depth analysis of the war in Ukraine and European history. Peace is the ...

Al Carns is the former minister for the armed forces. If a Nato ally is subject to armed attack and seeks our help, British forces must be committed Working-class voters did not abandon the party – we ...

Larry Elliott was the economics editor of the Guardian from 1996 to 2024. His most recent book is Europe Didn't Work. Remainer fantasies still have too much sway over the Labour Party. Thatcherism is ...

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