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 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 ...

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 ...

The author and Bloomberg columnist on the threat to global democracy By Oli Dugmore Oli Dugmore: There are two strands that I think are probably going to follow the course of our conversation over the ...

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 ...

The following are selected answers from Yanis Varoufakis’s appearance on The Exchange with Oli Dugmore. Oli Dugmore: Last year, reflecting on 2025, you identified three upsets in the foreign policy ...

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 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 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 ...

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 ...

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, ...