Rather than a relic of the past, Britain’s best known classist sees the ancient world as a powerful tool for understanding the present. By NS Podcasts Rather than a relic of the past, Mary Beard sees ...

Nicola Sturgeon’s now estranged husband has brought shame on the SNP By Chris Deerin Peter Murrell was never one for the public eye. He was the archetypal backroom operator, forever lurking in the ...

There is no such thing as the “Asian community”. The label was imposed on a generation of migrants a In the wake of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto we revisit our October special on Pakistan in ...

The author of Taiwan Travelogue and her translator Lin King speak on making art about a country under threat By Catharine Hughes This week, Taiwan Travelogue, a book rejected multiple times by ...

Should the UK rejoin the EU? Caroline Lucas and Anand Menon weigh in By Caroline Lucas and Anand Menon On 11 May, following the disastrous results of the local elections, Keir Starmer delivered a ...

In the mad world of the British far right, faith and thuggery jostle for attention By Emily Lawford On the road to Parliament Square, men kept stopping Kate to tell her she was beautiful. She was a ...

If Andy Burnham succeeds in the Makerfield by-election next month, Labour will immediately face a new challenge: a Greater ...

Will Lloyd is the deputy editor of the New Statesman. He was previously a reporter at the Sunday Times and a pet insurance salesman in Sydney, Australia. The two jobs had nothing in common. He lives ...

Oli Dugmore is the executive editor (digital) of the New Statesman. He has reported from America, Europe and the Middle East. Previously, he founded the repeatedly nominated but rarely award-winning ...

Instagram taps into our competitive psychology and tendency for girl-on-girl bullying. By Freya India For years now, social media has been the villain du jour for spiking rates of anxiety, depression ...

We must stand against both anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim hate By Prince Harry Over the past several years, I have spoken about the consequences of a world in which outrage outpaces humanity – where ...

Andrew Marr is editor at large of the New Statesman. He is a former political editor of BBC News, and hosts Tonight with Andrew Marr on LBC radio. This is no way to govern Also: Tory-Reform electoral ...