State of Emergency

Rebellion in the air

The sirens are beginning to sound about the state of Britain and its government.

Is Thomas Skinner the future of the right?

A Tory MP, a Brexiteer historian, a Reform clown and a reality-TV star walk into an auditorium…

Eddie Dempsey on why Britain needs a trade union revival

The RMT general secretary is a product of the old left. Can his vision of a popular, resurgent labour…

Who will join the Labour rebellion?

Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.

How not to plagiarise Geoff Dyer

Also this week: Sunderland’s glory years and diluting drunken prose.

This week on the BBC: rows over Gaza, alleged bullying and Kneecap

Your weekly dose of news and gossip from inside the UK and international media.

Letter of the week: Small government

Write to [email protected] to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.

Keir Starmer has a problem: the left is organising

From a revived Corbynite movement to Green leadership hopeful Zack Polanski, Labour faces a new threat.

Welcome to HMO Britain

While neighbours suffer, landlords are cashing in on Britain’s demand for houses in multiple occupation.

Britain is dangerously exposed to the whims of despots

An attack on Iranian oil infrastructure could produce a price shock comparable to 2022.

The pro-Palestine movement’s alternative campus

The Soas Liberated Zone is offering the London university’s students a different kind of educational experience.

Giorgia Meloni’s selective memory

The Italian prime minister’s autobiography revises her and her country’s history. But Meloni’s success is a template for right…

Jacinda Ardern’s unexamined life

In her memoir, the former prime minister seems more concerned with the symbols of politics than the actual politics the…

How to do it like a movie star

The lessons an intimacy coordinator is teaching the film industry about real sex apply off screen and on.

How a Moscow archivist exposed the KGB, file by file

Gordon Corera’s account of the audacious counter-intelligence operative Vasili Mitrokhin is non-fiction that reads like a spy thriller.

Jarvis Cocker at 61: Is this hardcore?

Pulp’s reunion show is a fun, maybe even cool, celebration of aging.

28 Years of Zombie Britain

Danny Boyle’s beloved horror franchise is back, in scary and frenetic form.

Amol Rajan’s Ganges vanity project

The BBC news presenter’s pilgrimage to Kumbh Mela is a half-hearted attempt to find spirituality.

4.48 Psychosis is a disturbing dissection of the mind

At the Royal Court, Sarah Kane’s high-intensity play reveals the desperation of severe mental illness.

“Minerality” is a wine industry myth

Tasting notes often rely on misleading metaphors – we’re not really drinking soil soup.

In Canada, I am rediscovering what being a GP can mean

Wes Streeting could learn a thing or two from British Columbia.

Home is where the Hove-l is

The casual observer might think the person who lived in my flat had gone beyond depression into a state…

Jeff Bezos’s Venetian wedding is a pageant of bad taste

As it should be.

The right note to end on

In my columns for the New Statesman, I’ve recorded more than a decade of my life. But now it’s…

This England: A regular flappuccino

This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain…

October 1973: As war ravages the Middle East, John Maddox analyses how the Arab oil embargo will affect the…