Politics is lousy with bookworms. But are they reading the good stuff? By Bethany Elliott The reading habits of politicians, like their sexual proclivities, are largely hidden from public view until ...

Whatever happened to the Good Friday Agreement? Neither Donald Trump nor Andy Burnham have read the small-print. It might not matter By Finn McRedmond Poor Micheál, who may have expected it from Joe ...

It has long been fashionable for politicians and commentators to worry about the “Americanisation” of British politics. Concerns of this nature date back more than a century, to debates about ...

Future generations will look upon the social mobility of postwar Britain with envy By Rachel Cunliffe What would Seven Up! look like now? That’s the thought I couldn’t get out of my head as I ...

At Reform Party Conference this month, the only subject journalists wanted to talk about was the donor scandal. The day before the conference began, Channel 4 broadcast a documentary in which ...

Labour party funding could be at risk from any cap By Ailbhe Rea Andy Burnham’s Labour has generally been a calmer place since he took over. But over the weekend, a wave of panic rippled through his ...

Nationalism, we are told, defines our age. At any rate, it seems likely to have defined these May elections. In Scotland, there is a strong possibility – at the time of writing – that the Scottish ...

The new Prime Minister has set himself a fierce challenge: remaking Britain’s economic order By Michael Jacobs When Andy Burnham stood on the steps of Downing Street on his first day as Prime Minister ...

Jason Cowley is the former editor-in-chief of the New Statesman The writer and campaigner on nationalism, the rise of the new right and how a fractured left can organise in response In Three Weeks in ...

Lewis Goodall is an author, journalist and analysis and investigations editor at Global, plus a co-host of The News Agents podcast. There is no end in sight to American carnage The Chancellor’s shift ...

Wolfgang Münchau is a New Statesman columnist and the director of Eurointelligence. How did we get here? How will the famously unpredictable president-elect act at the negotiation table? From Europe ...

Merlin Strategy’s exclusive polling reveals a growing gender divide among under-30s By Scarlett Maguire The prevailing narrative is that young men, under the influence of the manosphere and enchanted ...