Rory Stewart mocked for ‘magnificently strange’ Newsnight moment The former MP has become the internet’s latest meme after he stared at New Statesman political editor Ailbhe Rea The Independent UK · Sep 23
'Hate Is Not Protest': Prince Harry Breaks Silence on UK Antisemitism Surge Prince Harry warns that a 'deeply troubling' rise in antisemitism in Britain is making Jewish communities feel unsafe and insists that 'hatred is not protest'. International Business Times UK · May 14
Tony Gould obituary Other lives: Literary editor of New Society and New Statesman who wrote a social history of polio, a disease he contracted in his late teens The Guardian - UK · Mar 17
Why Sigmund Freud is making a comeback in the age of authoritarianism and AI Psychoanalysis is having a moment. Instagram accounts dedicated to Freudian theory have amassed nearly 1.5 million followers. Television shows like Orna Guralnik’s Couples Therapy have become compulsive viewing. Think pieces in The New York Times, The London Review of Books, Harper’s, New Statesman, the Guardian and Vulture are declaring psychoanalysis’s… The Conversation · Feb 13
UK politics: Creasy leaves open chance of Labour deputy leadership bid and calls for Palestine Action law change – as it happened The MP said police should be focusing on people who are members of the group, not those who ‘recklessly express support’ for it The Guardian - UK · Sep 8, 2025
The Brexit origin story goes back further than you think Tom McTague is one of the best contemporary writers on the intersection of domestic politics with wider events and the role of character and quirk in shaping what follows. In Between the Waves: The Hidden History of a Very British Revolution 1945-2016, the writer turned New Statesman editor undertakes a… Evening Standard · Sep 6, 2025
Reeves Grapples with Welfare Crisis: Concessions Spark Calls for a Sweeping System Revamp Chancellor Rachel Reeves faces a backlash over £5 billion welfare cuts, offering £3 billion in concessions to quell rebels. Is a full welfare system revamp the answer? International Business Times UK · Jul 2, 2025
Voices: Look away, Sir Keir! Labour’s bible has given its verdict on you COMMENT: The New Statesman’s new editor is a critical friend of the prime minister – very critical, as it turns out, writes John Rentoul (a former deputy editor of the magazine) The Independent UK · Jun 12, 2025
Labour peer calls for ‘arrogant’ attorney general to be sacked Blue Labour founder Maurice Glasman also calls Richard Hermer a ‘progressive fool’ in New Statesman interview The Guardian - UK · Feb 10, 2025
Britain 'might' be taken over by populist nationalists if I fail, says Keir Starmer ‘Do not think for a minute that it could never happen here,’ he told guests at a party last night Evening Standard · Jul 23, 2024
Pat Coyne obituary Other lives: Publisher who spent a turbulent period in the early 1990s as chief executive of New Statesman magazine The Guardian - UK · Jun 10, 2024
Britain’s richest 10% don’t think they’re wealthy – and that’s disastrous in the fight against inequality Labour’s plan to charge private schools VAT has caused predictable uproar and revealed skewed perceptions of wealth, says the New Statesman’s Anoosh Chakelian The Guardian - UK · Jan 24, 2024
Benjamin Myers wins 2023 Goldsmiths prize for ‘vital’ novel Cuddy Award for mould-breaking fiction goes to multi-genre work – ‘part poetry, part electricity’ – retelling the story of Durham Cathedral The Guardian - UK · Nov 8, 2023
Critics angry after spotting ‘gross misrepresentation’ of reviews on Jordan Peterson book cover Writers have pointed out the creative use of their words on the paperback cover of YouTube professor’s book The Independent UK · Aug 17, 2023
The Independent UK · Aug 16, 2023 Critics angry after being ‘misquoted’ on Jordan Peterson book cover: ‘It should be removed’ Writers have pointed out the creative use of their words on the paperback cover of YouTube professor’s book
Evening Standard · Jul 18, 2023 Labour bigwigs are all smiles at summer drinks as tensions rise Rachel Reeves and Wes Streeting were among guests at the New Statesman’s summer drinks
The Guardian - UK · Apr 7, 2023 Labour publishes new Rishi Sunak attack advert – UK politics live: as it happened Move comes a day after widely-criticised attack on the PM, which suggested he did not think sexual abusers of children should be jailed
The Guardian - UK · Jan 13, 2023 Paul Johnson obituary Prolific journalist and historian who shifted allegiance from the left of Labour to become an ardent Thatcher supporter
The National (Scotland) · Oct 26, 2022 Sunak doubles down on outrageous cutting funding from 'deprived urban areas' boast RISHI Sunak has doubled down on a boast he made about cutting funding for poor areas to send money to wealthy parts of southern England which was…
The Guardian - UK · Oct 5, 2022 Goldsmiths prize shortlist features a first: twin-authored novel Diego Garcia Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams’ ‘extraordinary’ work sits alongside a field of creatively ambitious writing that finds new ways of telling stories
The Guardian - UK · Oct 3, 2022 ‘Empty, unremarkable, muted’: how commentators saw Kwarteng’s speech The verdicts came swiftly on the chancellor’s speech after his high-profile tax U-turn
The Guardian - UK · Aug 26, 2022 I quit trying to be friends with all my exes – and learned there is power in letting go I’d deluded myself in thinking that keeping ex-partners in my life was the right thing to do. The truth was I just liked the attention, says Sarah Manavis, digital culture writer at the New Statesman
The Guardian - UK · Aug 10, 2022 From the ‘Brexit shredder’ to headless actors – Rishi Sunak must stop these dreadful campaign videos The #Ready4Rishi campaign has been putting out budget video after budget video. Let’s take a look at the oeuvre so far, says Guardian columnist Hannah Jane Parkinson
Insider UK · Aug 8, 2022 New chief entrepreneur complains government isn't focusing 'enough on the economy' In an interview, Mark Logan also revealed plans for a new public/private fund to back Scottish start-ups
The Guardian - UK · Aug 5, 2022 Rishi Sunak admits taking money from deprived areas Video shows candidate telling Tories in Tunbridge Wells he started making sure ‘areas like this are getting the funding they deserved’