Tea Party movement Articles

An unprecedented number of far-right, fascist and openly racist members of the European parliament were elected last month. It presents a major challenge for UK MEPs but a major subtext of these developments has been the huge contrast in the way Labour and...

Ukip are fast becoming specialists in failure. They came second in the 2009 European elections; and then vanished like the airy fabric of a baseless dream in 2010. They came second in Eastleigh, Rotherham, and South Shields: but the only byelection victory for a party...

Gun control It is just over a year since the 14 December 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, where 20 children and six teachers were gunned down in cold blood. It would be easy to look at the US and say that nothing of substance has...

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...