The premier first called in communications coach Leonie Mellinger in 2017 as he set his sights on becoming Labour's next ...

Alan B'Stard, Rik Mayall's infamous character from The New Statesman is back. He's here to lend his support to the Alternative Vote. Sort of. Featuring: Rik Mayall (Alan B'Stard MP).

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 ...

Read: The cost of net zero in the town that steel built Subscribers to the New Statesman can listen ad-free in our app. Download it on iOS or Android. Not a regular podcast listener? Read our guide on ...

By New Statesman A bidder paid £2,728 for an empty cardboard box, because it featured in the 1992 Christmas special of Only Fools and Horses. The “Peckham Spring Water” box sparked a global bidding ...

“Trump’s victory seemed likely to me then,” Sandel recalled to the New Statesman, the day before the inauguration, “mainly because the Democratic Party had failed to address the legitimate grievances ...

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 A prosthetic leg, an ironing ...

Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine. By New Statesman Hannah Barnes makes a brave attempt to achieve a balanced view of grooming gangs and ...

And will Robbie Williams’ legacy be a CGI monkey? Tom Gatti is joined by senior commissioning editor at the New Statesman, Anna Leskiewicz and writer Emma Garland. Read: Robbie Williams’ ...