“Too many people are only here for the politics”: Alicia Kearns on leading foreign policy from the backbenches
From Brexit to TikTok, the youngest chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee is making sure her voice is heard.
ByVolodymyr Zelensky
Discover all of the New Statesman’s latest news, comment and analysis on Volodymyr Zelensky, the current president of Ukraine.
How Putin lost the energy war
European gaspolitik has defeated Russia this winter.
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Will Zelensky’s anti-corruption drive help Ukraine join the EU?
Public opinion and Kyiv’s international partners are demanding action on graft in the country.
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Will Volodymyr Zelensky secure British jets for Ukraine?
Ukraine’s president visits the UK, and the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict intensifies.
Will Rishi Sunak send fighter jets to Ukraine?
The PM has committed to training Ukrainian pilots, but Zelensky’s visit was really to ask for the planes themselves.
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Enraptured MPs put aside their squabbles for Volodymyr Zelensky
A packed Westminster Hall greeted the Ukrainian president’s call for fighter aircraft with whoops and cheers.
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PMQs: Sunak and Starmer unite in solidarity with Ukraine
There was a remarkable show of bipartisanship from both leaders.
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The war in Ukraine will go on for years – and so will its consequences for Britain
We need to change our thinking: this may become an unresolved global conflict of a kind we haven’t seen before.
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Ukraine deserves better than Boris Johnson
No, the former prime minister should not be appointed special envoy to Ukraine.
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The first signs of Ukraine war fatigue in the West are starting to appear
Yet pressure is increasing on Germany to send Kyiv tanks.
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Why Ukraine’s designs on Crimea could split the West
Some allies fear threatening to retake the peninsula could provoke a nuclear attack.
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Ukraine’s problematic nationalist heroes
Kyiv’s lionisation of 20th-century nationalists linked to atrocities is alienating allies and playing into Russian propaganda.
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The Ukraine war has made predictions futile
Russia can’t win its self-evidently stupid war – and working out what will happen next is almost impossible.
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Zelensky needed to go to Washington
With the war soon to enter its second year, Ukraine still needs all the Western support it can get.
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Leader: The year of living dangerously
In a new era of permanent crisis, the past 12 months demonstrated the power of leadership – for good and…
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Nadhim Zahawi is playing into Putin’s hands, not striking nurses
Even Ukrainian workers are fighting for their own rights – that’s the point of union solidarity.
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Investigations into Ukrainian mass graves highlight the devastating cost of Russia’s war
As Ukraine liberates more of its territory from Russian control, the deadly toll of Vladimir Putin’s invasion is being revealed.
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What will it take for Russia to understand it’s losing the war?
After nine months of fighting Russia has yet to achieve a single war aim through force of arms.
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Jens Stoltenberg: “We will support Ukraine for as long as it takes”
Nato’s secretary-general on why Europe faces its most dangerous moment since the Second World War.
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Is Volodymyr Zelensky losing the support of the West?
The Ukrainian president’s response to the Poland missile incident highlighted tensions with some Western leaders at a time when the…
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