Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine. By New Statesman Francis Green and David Kynaston purport to lay the ills of British society at the door ...

Keir Starmer is right to pursue a “reset” with the EU. But he risks pleasing no one. By New Statesman Five years after the UK left the European Union, Britain is confronting an inconvenient truth: ...

This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain – has run in the New Statesman since 1934. By New Statesman Wallace & Gromit villain ...

Reform leads in opinion polls. How seriously should we take it? Don’t expect these new figures to be transient outliers. By Ben Walker Editor’s note: This piece was originally published on 29 January ...

On all sides the urban machine is operating at full tilt, churning out volcanic volumes of steam and fumes. By Simon Armitage I was in New York a few weeks ago. It was cold, and not just ...

Kemi Badenoch’s strategy of agreeing with Reform risks backfiring. By Rachel Cunliffe Just three days after the five-year anniversary of Britain leaving the European Union, Keir Starmer sat down to a ...

Even if I do miss Julia, Liz and, especially, Kevin – the Motherland gang – I’m transfixed by her (non-)reinvention, a new life that involves state schools (so much more likely little Georgie and ...

Even the radical architects of Project 2025 didn’t propose what Elon Musk is doing to US democracy. By Jill Filipovic As Donald Trump enters his Mad King era and starts a trade war that seems primed ...

Compare this to 1997, another change election: 64 per cent of council housing households voted for New Labour, 15 per cent went Conservative. Note, too, how Labour’s 2024 performance is worse than in ...

Also this week: The Wild Robot’s ode to mums and the triumph of Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter. By Olivia Cole The Academy may have called off its lavish nominees’ lunch amid the fires that ravaged Los ...

By Bruno Maçães There is a new goal for tech start-ups: wipe out $1trn in stock market value in a single day. That’s what the Chinese AI company DeepSeek achieved on 27 January. DeepSeek employs about ...

Jerry Lee Jarvis passed away at home on Friday. Jerry was preceded in death by his father Jimmy L Jarvis, and Cyndi Foster Hathaway. Jerry is survived by his mother, Christina Jarvis and brothers ...