By Sue Prideaux “A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.” Ian Penman, a post-punk music ...

Once MPs turn against a government, they never turn back. o rebel is to wage war. Specifically, if you go back to the Latin, ...

The magazine and the woman cannot be untangled; they are symbiotic, an incredibly chic ouroboros.

inally, there is the pathos of both the phrase “Island of strangers” and of Starmer’s ill-advised use of the phrase ...

The Treasury Committee has revealed just how damaging his housing policy really was. By Will Dunn The Lifetime Isa sounded like an unbeatable idea: put up to £4,000 a year into a savings account and ...

Concessions to welfare rebels may have saved the government, but there remain lessons for the Prime Minister to learn.

George Orwell was the wintry conscience of a generation which in the ‘thirties had heard the call to the rasher assumptions ...

It’s easy – and lazy – to blame advisers for the failures of politicians. his week’s Westminster main character is Morgan ...

The biggest flaw with More in Common’s survey is simple: the Jeremy Corbyn Party isn’t real; it hasn’t accrued baggage; we ...

Meanwhile, the UK’s Industrial Strategy White Paper was published. With tensions over Iran’s nuclear programme, and threats ...

Iran’s nuclear programme traces its origins back to the reign of the shah, when it was initiated with significant assistance ...

In my columns for the New Statesman, I’ve recorded more than a decade of my life. But now it’s time to say goodbye.