New Statesman Articles

In April, the New Statesman published a special supplement marking its centenary. It included reprints of classic articles by some of its most celebrated writers – including TS Elliott, George Orwell, and Virginia Woolf – and contributions by AS Byatt, Melvyn Bragg...

An English Labour party is an inevitability Englishness is too important to leave to Tommy Robinson. The tropes of Englishness are barely understood or even witnessed by our metropolitan elite, yet they shape the lives of millions of people. This elite, with their...

On paper this had all the makings of a triple AAA nightmare for David Cameron. He arrived at PMQs as the downgraded leader of a downgraded country on the eve of a by-election defeat that will suggest he is on course to be a one-term prime minister.  As for the Lib...

Like a kind of Miranda (from the Tempest, not the woman who falls over on BBC1) in reverse, Laurie Penny has decided the Socialist Workers’ Party is a Bad Thing. She has looked at the comrades who hitherto she admired as part of a giant, mythological, heroic brave new...