An open letter to the government from leading authors, artists and public figures By New Statesman Sally Rooney is a writer, ...

How the former first minister of Scotland came to lead the opposition to Israel’s actions in Gaza By Peter Oborne Humza Yousaf, author of Under Fire, an important and painfully honest testament, could ...

It is an inherently dishonest way to run a country By Will Dunn In recent decades, a sinister new force has assumed power in Westminster. They can appear in any political party. They are formidable at ...

Merlin Strategy’s exclusive polling reveals a growing gender divide among under-30s By Scarlett Maguire The prevailing narrative is that young men, under the influence of the manosphere and enchanted ...

The Sally Rooney affair shows how laws meant to target terrorism now suppress the freedom to dissent By Tanjil Rashid If you ever sought out the novels of Sally Rooney in bookshops – when that was ...

Why can’t our culture tear itself away from depictions of chemsex orgies in a sexual underworld? By Huw Lemmey At his May 2026 trial for possession of crystal meth, former MP Crispin Blunt’s story was ...

Ian Hislop is a journalist, broadcaster and satirist. He is the editor of Private Eye and a team captain on the BBC quiz programme Have I Got News for You. How should we celebrate Easter at this time ...

Josh Glancy is editor of News Review at The Sunday Times. The bar for banning an artist from Britain should be unbelievably high Inside the fake news crisis at the community paper.

The party is split after voting to define Zionism as racism By Megan Kenyon Green Party members backed a motion to describe Zionism as racism on Sunday (4 October), with 1022 votes for and 813 votes ...

Are the Greens taking Reform votes? The Green surge might do more than just upend Labour By Ben Walker Last year I wrote that Reform had eaten the Tory recovery. A disproportionate number of the ...

If Labour has the courage to build a productive state, the party could truly reshape Britain for the better By Mathew Lawrence In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, regulators concluded that ...

The social scientist has made a career from predicting global instability. But in the new book End Times, his analysis produces nothing but banalities. By William Davies In January 2010 the scientific ...