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 ...

The Mandelson scandal is part of a pattern of misjudgments, not an exception By George Eaton Labour MPs are excoriating Keir Starmer and asking how much longer he can survive. Others are calling for ...

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 ...

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 – ...

Zack Polanski’s latest appearance on Newsnight had been planned for weeks before he walked through the doors of New Broadcasting House on 28 July. But when the day finally came, the Green Party leader ...

Why do right-wing “transvestigators” believe Michelle Obama is a man? The online right is lost inside an “emasculation fetish”. By Faye Curran A new fetish has evolved. For a long time, it was easy to ...

Britain’s young women are sad, alienated and increasingly left-wing By Scarlett Maguire Over the past decade we have had countless opinion pieces, documentaries and dramas about dangerously ...

Exclusive data findings show 50 seats the Greens can win on current polling By Ben Walker The Green Surge, a pipedream in 2015, now looks very real under Zack Polanski. The Green Party has seen the ...

The New Statesman can exclusively reveal the Chancellor’s finalised top political team By Ailbhe Rea The new Chancellor of the Exchequer John Healey has finalised the appointments to his top political ...

The Conservatives are increasingly becoming defined by their lack of humanity. By Alan Duncan When Kemi Badenoch became leader of the Conservative Party, she very sensibly aimed not to rush into early ...