The Government’s ‘Progressive’ Top Lawyer Is Off to a Rocky Start
Simon Childs
Downplaying torture isn't a good look.
Why Can’t Starmer Give Up Freebies?
Ash Sarkar
Freebie jeebies.
Key Israel Arms Supplier Sponsors Labour Conference Event
Sam Bright
As bombs fall on Gaza, the New Statesman takes arms-trade money.
Labour’s Building Blitz Won’t Fix the Housing Crisis, Experts Say
Aron Penczu
Homes for the wealthy, coal for the homeless.
We Don’t Need to ‘Talk About Immigration’
Rivkah Brown
Ignore Margaret Hodge.
How the Hell Did Police Think There Would Be 100 Riots?
Simon Childs
Great job, lads.
The Government’s Impartial Trans Healthcare Reviewer Isn’t so Impartial, Colleagues Claim
Rivkah Brown
Oops.
How the British Establishment Really Works
In his latest book, ‘Good Chaps: How Corrupt Politicians Broke Our Law and Institutions’, Kuper chronicles changes in the instincts of Britain’s ruling class – and how corruption came to be increasingly normalised. What do these elites believe? When did those beliefs change? And who are the people, places and policies that led to such shifts?
Austerity Is Back, Baby
Matteo Tiratelli
Bye-bye, new hospitals.
Jonathan Ashworth Apologises After Leaving Party Colleague ‘Distressed and Alarmed’
Simon Childs
A case of ‘sour grapes’?
UK Poised to Halt Arms to Israel – And Withdraw Objections to Netanyahu Arrest Warrant
Rivkah Brown
Plot twist.
Nimbys Are Good, Actually
Nicholas Beuret
It's the Greens versus Blackrock.
How the Guardian Lined Up Behind Starmer
Rivkah Brown
Get in formation.
I Defied the Party Machine and Won. Here’s How
Defying all the odds Corbyn managed to keep his seat, winning almost fifty percent of the vote. He sat down with Aaron Bastani to discuss that achievement, Labour’s performance more generally, the success of other independents elsewhere – and what the future holds for party politics in the UK.
Starmer’s Sandcastle Majority Says It All: First-Past-The-Post Needs to Die
Matt Zarb-Cousin
The two-party system is over.
What Would Keir Starmer As Prime Minister Mean for Palestine?
Hamza Yusuf
A friend of Israel.
How Labour’s Left-Wing Firebrands Fought Back
It’s not the first time the Labour left has seemed defeated, but the difference this time is that their ideas are more popular than ever. Can the left come back?
Where Will Labour Invade This Time?
From the war in Iraq to the Malaya counterinsurgency, Labour governments have been in power during some of Britain’s worst colonial blunders. What should we expect this time?