Rather than a relic of the past, Britain’s best known classist sees the ancient world as a powerful tool for understanding the present. By NS Podcasts Rather than a relic of the past, Mary Beard sees ...

Nicola Sturgeon’s now estranged husband has brought shame on the SNP By Chris Deerin Peter Murrell was never one for the public eye. He was the archetypal backroom operator, forever lurking in the ...

There is no such thing as the “Asian community”. The label was imposed on a generation of migrants a In the wake of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto we revisit our October special on Pakistan in ...

Lee Siegel is a New Statesman columnist and the author of seven books, including The Draw: A Memoir and Why Argument Matters. He is co-host, with David Rieff, of the Invincible Ignorance podcast. In ...

The author of Taiwan Travelogue and her translator Lin King speak on making art about a country under threat By Catharine Hughes This week, Taiwan Travelogue, a book rejected multiple times by ...

Sebastian Shehadi is political editor at Investment Monitor and contributing writer for the New Statesman. The agreed pause in fighting between Israel and Hezbollah has been repeatedly violated. New ...

Inside Andy Burnham’s leadership bid – and the campaigns underway to stop him By Ailbhe Rea As Keir Starmer looked around his cabinet table on Tuesday morning, he met the gazes of people who had told ...

In the mad world of the British far right, faith and thuggery jostle for attention By Emily Lawford On the road to Parliament Square, men kept stopping Kate to tell her she was beautiful. She was a ...

If Andy Burnham succeeds in the Makerfield by-election next month, Labour will immediately face a new challenge: a Greater ...

The poet’s love letters to Fanny Brawne have been recovered. Some would rather they’d never been written Like sex, money is something that a lot of people spend a lot of time thinking about (and ...

Will Lloyd is the deputy editor of the New Statesman. He was previously a reporter at the Sunday Times and a pet insurance salesman in Sydney, Australia. The two jobs had nothing in common. He lives ...

Oli Dugmore is the executive editor (digital) of the New Statesman. He has reported from America, Europe and the Middle East. Previously, he founded the repeatedly nominated but rarely award-winning ...