Magazine

Beware: Reform UK wants to join you in your bedroom

The right is coming for dating apps

By Rachel Cunliffe

Kharg Island, the key to Iran’s fate

If the war is about oil, why hasn’t the president targeted Iran’s most important facility?

By Katie Stallard

The NS Poem: A dream in two parts

A new poem by Janet Murray

By Janet Murray

The rise of British Muslims

What do two politicians’ memoirs reveal about the changing fortunes of British Muslims in public life?

By Tam Hussein

Melvyn Bragg’s class act

Was his success “social mobility”, or just good luck?

By Stefan Collini

The Strait of Hormuz: Iran’s oil weapon

The West is in a dependent relationship with Middle Eastern oil

By Ed Conway

Make porn expensive again

The social consequences of pornography are becoming too nasty to ignore

By Pippa Bailey

AI is the perfect blend of insight and bullshit

Also this week: rainy Irish summers and too much sport on TV

By John Lanchester

Journalism’s appetite for doom

Also: hunting for spies in north London, and our erosion of the Royal Navy

By Andrew Marr

Louis Theroux stares down the manosphere

Can Britain’s frowning documentarian defeat – or even comprehend – the new masculine underground?

By Nicholas Harris

Don’t let Britain decline

The Fourth Great Disruption is here

By John Bew

The special relationship is broken

In Trump’s era, the historic bond between the US and the UK counts for nothing

By Freddie Hayward

It’s hard being Tracey Emin

A major retrospective at the Tate Modern shows how the artist became the queen of the confessional – but is…

By Michael Prodger

Letter of the week: Phillipson’s final hurdle

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

By New Statesman

Regime change is bloody and hideous

To the Russian ambassador’s residence in Kensington Park Gardens to talk to Andrei Kelin about the war in Ukraine and…

By Andrew Marr

How we celebrated Khamenei’s death

My friends had imagined the moment for years

By Amir Ahmadi Arian

Politicians are fighting for a working class that no longer exists

Hannah Spencer’s election has sparked a new fury of class-spotting

By Anoosh Chakelian

Starmer is no Churchill, but Trump is no FDR

Britain is caught in the storm of the special relationship

By Tom McTague

Veganism has lost its cool

Big vendors are dropping their plant-based options. I can’t possibly think why

By Finn McRedmond

Time-travelling angels in the Blitz

Francis Spufford’s new novel Nonesuch combines WW2 and wizards

By Emily Lawford