Nigel Farage is facing his biggest challenge since he became an MP two years ago after a string of revelations about his ...

Keir Starmer’s swan song has begun. Westminster lies in wait for his most likely successor – the MP for Makerfield – who was absent from the Commons once again this afternoon, during PMQs. In the ...

From the archive: Andy Burnham on Peter Mandelson, Iraq and cannabis By Jon Bernstein Andy Burnham, former cabinet minister, is back where he started. Geographically, that is. Kicked out of his ...

The unlikely alliance between a group of London gays and lesbians and a Welsh mining village is a riposte to anti-woke ...

Finn McRedmond is a staff writer at the New Statesman. finn.mcredmond@newstatesman.co.uk Brits just can’t stop frying the hell out of chickens What does muntjac taste like? The restaurateur keeps ...

Nature had reasserted itself; marine scientists marvelled at the speed of algal growth By Katie Stallard How hard could it be? Sure, this was a decades-old problem, the solution to which had eluded ...

Quinn Slobodian is a New Statesman contributing writer and the author of Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy. The richest man in the world chose a strange ...

The boycott movement is a response to occupation, not a rejection of Israelis as people By Ishai Menuchin The publication of Sally Rooney’s Intermezzo in Hebrew has understandably attracted attention ...

Keir Starmer was never so popular with the public as in the early months of 2020, when he had just become Labour leader and not many people knew about him. His popularity only saw a slight surge – ...

Andy Burnham will need to do more than follow the rules if he wants to lead Britain By Phil Tinline In his acceptance speech in the early hours of Friday, a victorious Andy Burnham sought to convince ...

Donald John Trump, born in 1946, is president of the United States, after beating Kamala Harris in the 2024 election. His previous term in office was from 2017 to 2021. His first presidency was marked ...

It comes after the party lost its deposit in Makerfield By Megan Kenyon Tomorrow, the Green Party’s leader, Zack Polanski will unveil the party’s candidate for the Manchester mayoral by-election – ...