The Labour Party’s annual conference in September 1952 was uniquely brutal. Delegates arrived in Morecambe to lashings of rain: the Cumbrian peaks across the bay were barely visible. After a sobering ...

The prominent Reform member paid investigators to look into Gabriel Pogrund after his reporting on Nigel Farage’s finances By Emily Lawford Prominent Reform member Arron Banks hired private ...

Who’s to blame for Jason Arday? Arday isn’t a victim or a crook, but the product of a broken system By Steve Hall The Jason Arday affair has turned into a global furore. Arday is a young black man who ...

Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster. By Kevin Maguire It’s taken more than 13 years but David Laws has finally apologised to Liam Byrne for weaponising that infamous scrawled note ...

In a time of brutal inequality, can the former prime minister still imagine a better world? By Kate Mossman Fifteen years after he left 10 Downing Street, Gordon Brown still has people who turn up at ...

I think Charlie Kirk made the country a worse place. I believe his murder makes the country even worse By John Ganz There are two reasons Charlie Kirk was assassinated in Utah on Wednesday: one is the ...

Andy Burnham’s early policy and communications blitz – eating pork scratchings and climbing ladders on TikTok, visiting the Barrow shipyard and Dover coastguard, promising cheaper buses and pubs – ...

The language is modern but the Russian dacha aesthetic gives the performance its timeless quality By Rachel Cunliffe Heat. Wine. Sexual tension. A vague pervading sense of dread. Longing – not for ...

The former MP is far from the only Brit to be sent into a rage spiral by watching X. By Anoosh Chakelian Douglas Carswell used to be interesting. While never a particular friend of the New Statesman, ...

What happened last time Labour split? Four Labour ex-cabinet ministers split to form the Social Democratic Party in 1981—then split again seven years later. By Eleni Courea Seven Labour MPs quit the ...

Where did Britain go wrong? Exclusive polling shows Brexit is the most popular choice. By George Eaton Britain isn’t working – for different reasons, voters across the political spectrum affirm this ...

The monarchy and the House of Lords show how tradition is colliding with democracy By George Eaton It is a look of bewilderment as if to say how could this happen to me? For the British monarchy, the ...