Zack Polanski can’t simply blame Andy Burnham – his brand is more toxic than it used to be By Ben Walker Six months ago, Zack Polanski could have won. Holborn and St Pancras wasn’t the most favourable ...

John Corley is the editor of the Angolite, the news magazine of the Louisiana State Penitentiary As prisoners in Louisiana, we watch on as executions return to death row ...

We used to make things. Now we rent them from American companies Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine The Holborn and St Pancras candidate was ...

Attempt 17ish: hand remains intact. I am trying to pierce a tin of peaches with an eight-inch freshly sharpened chef’s knife. It is day four inside my 366-square-foot apartment; my tin opener has ...

Next year is going to be hotter and, for you and everyone you know, dearer By Oli Dugmore There’s an arm-wrestle taking place in the sky. The ocean and the atmosphere exist in constant struggle: one ...

In north London, we have been in by-election frenzy. Apart, that is, from all the old chaps fast asleep outside the pubs, and the heedless children, and the rest of the world getting on with its ...

If this was a moment for Polanski to show leadership, he has failed By Alona Ferber Rarely do Jews, a people famous for disagreeing with one another, seem as aligned as they do over the Green Party ...

White House insiders reveal what they really think of Andy Burnham’s Britain By Freddie Hayward When Andy Burnham met Donald Trump in the modernist UN building beside New York’s East River on 22 ...