While Miliband and Haigh both hail from Labour’s soft left, Streeting is close to the party’s Blairite wing (though he ...

The New Statesman’s choice of the year’s essential fiction and non-fiction.

Past this checkpoint, on top of a low hill, sits Sednaya prison, nicknamed the “human slaughterhouse”, a grim monument to the ...

With the Middle East in turmoil, could Israel now step into the breach?

Baby Reindeer (Netflix) The media storm of interviews and reports of lawsuits came to dominate discussion of this series: but ...

Postliberalism is, in the first instance, the recognition of this “postliberal” reality: that liberalism has mutated into an ...

Why Labour finds it so difficult to get housebuilding off the ground.

From this mid-century turning point, the whole science of politics was adjusted to the dispiriting reality that history was ...

When the UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot dead outside a hotel in New York, the suspect Luigi Mangione would not ...

Is it any coincidence that the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, has promised to take an “iron fist” to public spending on the same ...

RDHI is therefore a good number to target, because it represents something more like real money. (It’s also a more reliable ...

This Christmas issue is my last as editor of the New Statesman: I am standing down after 16 years at the end of 2024. It has ...