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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 ...

Ethan Croft is a New Statesman political correspondent. One of Keir Starmer’s former allies has turned on him and resigned from parliament There is now a serious effort to remove the Prime Minister ...

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 ...

If Labour’s National Executive does as its members – and, indeed, much of the voting public – demand, then the battle for Makerfield could emerge as one of the most totemic and decisive parliamentary ...

Scarlett Maguire is the founder and director of Merlin Strategy Britain’s young women are sad, alienated and increasingly left-wing Zack Polanski’s increasing popularity has huge implications for the ...

The London mayor on Labour’s “catastrophic” results in the capital, and the Chancellor’s “doom and gloom” putting off ...

All parties when they govern are effectively a coalition”, said David Lammy on Thursday night, when the deputy PM was in the ...

Follow our interactive map as we update it throughout with the latest results By Ben Walker Use the toggle at the bottom-left of the map to switch between views of the previous winners and the 2026 ...

More than 5,000 council seats are up for grabs on Thursday. Just four years ago, the Labour Party secured commanding ...

Two-thirds fear billionaire’s personal payment buys “inappropriate” political influence By Anoosh Chakelian More than two-thirds of the British public (68 per cent) are concerned that the £5m Nigel ...