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 ...

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

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

The Syrian dictator was one of the region’s key powerbrokers. His regime’s sudden collapse has left a vacuum.

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

Can a new Middle East be fashioned from the ruins of the Assad regime? By John Jenkins Walking through the burned-out shell of the British embassy in Libya in the autumn of 2011, I was asked by the ...