The party has to attract elite talent. It doesn't have much right now.

eform is coming for Wales. That was Nigel Farage’s key message in Port Talbot today (9 September), as he fired the starting ...

In recent months, Donald Trump has taken to trashing areas of deep US strength that were taken for granted so completely that ...

Our editorial team offers tasting notes on an array of bottles, all available through the New Statesman Wine Club, and calls ...

Two days before her first Spending Review (which I preview here ), Reeves has announced that winter fuel payments will be restored to three-quarters of pensioners (or all those earning below £35,000).

How it works is unclear – psychiatrists often resort to the old metaphors used for electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), “whacking ...

Ellie Chowns and Adrian Ramsay are experienced, and can win elections. But is it enough to beat the insurgent Zack Polanski?

A cautionary tale for Labour’s potential 12 new towns is that of Northstowe, a new town north of Cambridge – Britain’s ...

Johan Norberg’s history of civilisation is an impressive conceptual achievement – but it has little to say about our own age ...

This John Wick spin-off asks: what if women could shoot a gun too?

Keir Starmer has asserted that Reform UK is his party’s main opponent – but Ed Miliband already knew that. The Secretary of ...

Birmingham itself is at the apex of a wider trend of rising child poverty across the country in recent years. According to ...