Which brings us to the Labour strategy. Farage is both a strength and a curse for Reform. The more the voters and media take ...

eform is coming for Wales. That was Nigel Farage’s key message in Port Talbot today (9 September), as he fired the starting ...

Finer search terms than “young male sex novel”, of course, would have turned up much smarter matches. The canon itself ...

Since the pandemic, the number of working days lost to respiratory conditions has more than doubled. Now accounting for 8.7 ...

Our editorial team offers tasting notes on an array of bottles, all available through the New Statesman Wine Club, and calls ...

Two days before her first Spending Review (which I preview here ), Reeves has announced that winter fuel payments will be restored to three-quarters of pensioners (or all those earning below £35,000).

How it works is unclear – psychiatrists often resort to the old metaphors used for electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), “whacking ...

A cautionary tale for Labour’s potential 12 new towns is that of Northstowe, a new town north of Cambridge – Britain’s ...

Ellie Chowns and Adrian Ramsay are experienced, and can win elections. But is it enough to beat the insurgent Zack Polanski?

Johan Norberg’s history of civilisation is an impressive conceptual achievement – but it has little to say about our own age ...

Keir Starmer has asserted that Reform UK is his party’s main opponent – but Ed Miliband already knew that. The Secretary of ...

Birmingham itself is at the apex of a wider trend of rising child poverty across the country in recent years. According to ...