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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Benjamin Netanyahu has won the battle over Iran. But his war against Israel’s democracy is not over.

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.

The lessons an intimacy coordinator is teaching the film industry about real sex apply off screen and on.

For the EU and UK the escalating crisis in the Middle East means more than diplomatic frustration and higher energy prices.

Nigel Farage struck a similar tone at his own event on Monday, suggesting Britain has alienated itself from the White House. ...