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 ...

The Reform leader didn’t turn up to his own by-election By Anoosh Chakelian Nigel Farage has won the Clacton by-election, in a contest boycotted by every other major party. But in the end, even he ...

The Reform leader now looks like the one who can’t take a joke By Jonn Elledge The traditional choice after winning an overwhelming victory in a by-election you triggered yourself would be to do some ...

All the locals we met were frustrated with politics and years of neglect By Anoosh Chakelian Clacton is a conundrum. A day out there can lead you from day-trippers enjoying the beautiful sandy ...

I’m willing to ignore that Burnham was born in Liverpool No one could sing away the politics at the first Fleadh to be held in Belfast Politics has become showbusiness because showbusiness has gone ...

The modern far-right is not a return to fascism, but a new and original threat. By Richard Seymour The far-right is on the march; the left has rallied to defeat it. In a month which has seen the Trump ...

The magazine is recruiting an editor to run our online home for reactive comment, debate and analysis. By New Statesman The New Statesman is hiring an editor to run The Staggers – our online home for ...

Nigel Farage is a canny political operator. There was a strategy behind his decision to resign the Clacton constituency and force a by-election. Reform’s vote share is on a downward trend in the ...

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 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 ...

Megan Kenyon is a political correspondent at the New Statesman. She was previously a court reporter at the Old Bailey covering grisly murder cases. She has been reading the New Statesman since she was ...