The New Statesman’s choice of the year’s essential fiction and non-fiction.

Past this checkpoint, on top of a low hill, sits Sednaya prison, nicknamed the “human slaughterhouse”, a grim monument to the ...

With the Middle East in turmoil, could Israel now step into the breach?

If you cock an ear, that gnashing of teeth you can hear is coming from inside Scottish Labour ’s HQ. The party, which had ...

Why Labour finds it so difficult to get housebuilding off the ground.

Postliberalism is, in the first instance, the recognition of this “postliberal” reality: that liberalism has mutated into an ...

Baby Reindeer (Netflix) The media storm of interviews and reports of lawsuits came to dominate discussion of this series: but ...

From this mid-century turning point, the whole science of politics was adjusted to the dispiriting reality that history was ...

When the UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot dead outside a hotel in New York, the suspect Luigi Mangione would not ...

Labour can't build 1.5 million homes without addressing the planning backlog and a skills gap that has built up in local ...

Is it any coincidence that the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, has promised to take an “iron fist” to public spending on the same ...

Overdoses are mounting across the country, and the state needs to intervene.