Magazine

Will Iran inflict oil inflation on the West?

The country has little to lose by restricting shipping and triggering an energy price shock.

Labour must show it can build a state fit for purpose

Fixating on the Reform threat won’t fix our British malaise.

Lords seek mercy

Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.

Jo Cox and the privilege of office

Also this week: Putting differences aside, and progress on assisted dying.

Politicians are what they eat

Their food choices tell us more than speeches and sound bites ever could.

From Barbara Demick to Emily Kasriel: new books reviewed in short

Also featuring The Buried City by Gabriel Zuchtriegel and Poor Ghost! by Gabriel Flynn.

Will Iran surrender?

Israel’s assault has transformed the balance of power in the Middle East.

Inside the mind of Benjamin Netanyahu

As the Israeli prime minister’s bodyguard, I saw him transform into the gangster he is today.

Is Trump the last neoconservative?

Maga was meant to fix America. But Israel’s war risks dragging it back into the Middle East.

The savagery of Alexander McQueen

The designer saw the skull beneath the skin of a Britain slipping into paranoia and distrust.

A new era for the New Statesman

We were founded in 1913 as a weekly review of politics and literature, and remain so. Only now we cover…

What Keir Starmer can’t say

The Prime Minister believes he will heal Britain – but can he find the words?

Ideas for Keir

Tracey Emin, Jeremy Corbyn, Piers Morgan and others on what the Prime Minister should do next.

Robert Jenrick as Judge Dredd

Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.

Australia is no model for assisted dying

There is more dissent in the country – where assisted dying is legal – than MPs in the UK have…

Blind support for Israel has muzzled Bari Weiss’s Free Press

The publication’s ideology prevents it from adequately covering Trump’s failures.

Kemi Badenoch sinks further into the mire

What was the Tory leader doing on stage with the comedian Matt Forde? It was a deep mystery.

April 1977: The New Statesman’s former editor Paul Johnson froths at James Callaghan’s pact with the Liberal Party.

The ghost of Muriel Spark

In her work and life the writer was obsessed with biography – but when she authorised her own she loathed…

English literature’s last stand

Stefan Collini’s new book explores why such a prestigious academic discipline finds itself on the margins of modern society.