Tag Archives: The New Statesman

THE NEW STATESMAN MAGAZINE – APRIL 17, 2026

New Statesman | UK Politics & Culture Magazine

THE NEW STATESMAN: The latest issue features ‘Angry Young Women’ – The new feminism reshaping Britain…

Meet the Angry Young Women

Across Britain a radical new feminism is rising. By Emily Lawford

Revealed: the new radicalism among young women

Merlin Strategy’s exclusive polling reveals a growing gender divide among under-30s. By Scarlett Maguire

We’re all stuck in Donald Trump’s cage fight

The Iran war is spiralling. America’s adversaries are enjoying the show. By Katie Stallard

THE NEW STATESMAN MAGAZINE – APRIL 10, 2026

The Fall

THE NEW STATESMAN: The latest issue features ‘The Fall’ – How Donald Trump destroyed the American Empire.

Why Trump keeps escalating in Iran

The daring rescue of a stranded US airman in Iran has only emboldened the president

The Fall

The end of the American empire

By John Gray

The silent coup

By Will Dunn

Gwendoline Riley is haunted by herself

By Lola Seaton

Patrick Radden Keefe’s obituary for Britain

By Nicholas Harris

THE NEW STATESMAN MAGAZINE – MARCH 20, 2026

New Statesman | UK Politics & Culture Magazine

THE NEW STATESMAN: The latest issue features ‘The new world war’ – Why the battle for Ukraine and Iran is coming for us all.

The new world war

Why the battle for Iran and Ukraine is coming for us all. By Will Lloyd

The battle for the Strait of Hormuz

Iran has discovered a new weapon, much more powerful than its nuclear programme. By Katie Stallard

Thomas Heatherwick and architecture’s culture war

Britain’s most divisive designer on Labour’s lack of “cultural confidence”, housebuilding, and what makes a beautiful building. By Anoosh Chakelian

THE NEW STATESMAN MAGAZINE – MARCH 13, 2026

The Great British Crisis

THE NEW STATESMAN: The latest issue features ‘The Great British Crisis’…

Don’t let Britain decline

By John Bew

John Healey: Labour needs the “broadest group” in government

By Ailbhe Rea

Make porn expensive again

By Pippa Bailey

The rise of British Muslims

By Tam Hussein

THE NEW STATESMAN MAGAZINE-JANUARY 30, 2026

How we escape Trump

THE NEW STATESMAN: The latest issue features ‘How We Escape Trump’…

How we escape Trump

By New Statesman

Ice and Donald Trump’s regime of violence

The age of Trump has twisted the American psyche beyond recognitionBy Lee Siegel

Britain needs a Gaullist leader

By Paul Ovenden

How a single call sealed Andy Burnham’s fate

By Ailbhe Rea

The turn to Europe is inevitable

By Andrew Marr

At the Harry Potter studios, I find the last remnants of Britain’s moral authority

By Finn McRedmond

THE NEW STATESMAN MAGAZINE – JANUARY 9, 2025

What Trump wants

THE NEW STATESMAN: The latest issue features What Trump wants‘…

The age of invasion

How Trump’s new global strategy will assert Washington’s hemispheric ambitions By John Bew

Why Starmer won’t condemn Trump on Venezuela

Jeremy Corbyn, Clare Short, Robert D Kaplan and others reflect on the consequences of the Caracas attack By Ailbhe Rea

The world after Trump’s Venezuela gambit

By New Statesman

Fiona Hill: “The UK needs to think of its own sovereignty”

By Megan Gibson

THE NEW STATESMAN MAGAZINE – DEC. 5, 2025

THE NEW STATESMAN (June 18, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Books of the Year’…

The book is dead? Long live the book!

We announce the New Statesman’s fiction and non-fiction books of the year By Tanjil Rashid

What we read when politics has no narrative

There is still much to discover from the great show of life

In the autumn of Salman Rushdie

The author’s late style in The Eleventh Hour, his new collection of fiction, reveals a venerable writer displaced by timeBy Tanjil Rashid

Donald Trump is making peace in Ukraine harder

America’s chaotic negotiations risk prolonging the chaos not ending it By Lawrence Freedman

THE NEW STATESMAN MAGAZINE – JUNE 20, 2025

THE NEW STATESMAN (June 18, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Warlord’ – Feared, Loathed, Haunted…Unstoppable.

Living by the sword

The history that shapes Benjamin Netanyahu. By Joshua Leifer

Inside the mind of Benjamin Netanyahu

As the Israeli prime minister’s bodyguard, I saw him transform into the gangster he is today. By Ami Dror

The cosplay dictator

Trump has learned dangerous lessons from other strongmen. By Katie Stallard

The New Statesman Magazine — February 2025

New Statesman | UK Politics & Culture Magazine

THE NEW STATESMAN (February 5, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The New Gods of AI’ – China, the US and the battle to control the future…

Donald Trump is planning ethnic cleansing in Gaza

This imperialistic “Riviera” project could have been dreamt up by the Israeli far right.By Rajan Menon

The Do No Harm dilemma

What happens when a drug that can save lives could also ruin them? By Hannah Barnes

Class war: the battle over private schools

Labour must recover its radical tradition and close Britain’s education privilege gap.By David Kynaston and Francis Green

The New Statesman – January 17, 2025 Preview

THE NEW STATESMAN MAGAZINE (January 16, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The Disruptors’ – Elon Musk, Donald Trump and the hostile takeover of America…

Elon Musk’s hostile takeover

Inside the mind of the billionaire at the heart of American power. By Quinn Slobodian

The question of childlessness

With the fertility rate falling across the West, there is much more affecting parents’ decisions than the economy. By Madeleine Davies

Letter from Los Angeles: My city is burning

The fires ripping through LA show that, here, beauty and danger are two sides of a coin. By Sanjiv Bhattacharya