Zack Polanski can’t simply blame Andy Burnham – his brand is more toxic than it used to be By Ben Walker Six months ago, Zack Polanski could have won. Holborn and St Pancras wasn’t the most favourable ...

John Corley is the editor of the Angolite, the news magazine of the Louisiana State Penitentiary As prisoners in Louisiana, we watch on as executions return to death row ...

We used to make things. Now we rent them from American companies Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine The Holborn and St Pancras candidate was ...

Attempt 17ish: hand remains intact. I am trying to pierce a tin of peaches with an eight-inch freshly sharpened chef’s knife. It is day four inside my 366-square-foot apartment; my tin opener has ...

Next year is going to be hotter and, for you and everyone you know, dearer By Oli Dugmore There’s an arm-wrestle taking place in the sky. The ocean and the atmosphere exist in constant struggle: one ...

In north London, we have been in by-election frenzy. Apart, that is, from all the old chaps fast asleep outside the pubs, and the heedless children, and the rest of the world getting on with its ...

If this was a moment for Polanski to show leadership, he has failed By Alona Ferber Rarely do Jews, a people famous for disagreeing with one another, seem as aligned as they do over the Green Party ...

White House insiders reveal what they really think of Andy Burnham’s Britain By Freddie Hayward When Andy Burnham met Donald Trump in the modernist UN building beside New York’s East River on 22 ...

Adrian Ramsay said the party motion describing Zionism as racism “doesn’t reflect long-standing Green principles” By Megan Kenyon The former leader of the Green Party, Adrian Ramsay, has said he is ...

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 ...

The motion has opened a rift at the heart of the party By Megan Kenyon Green Party members descended on Brighton on Friday (2 October) for the party’s annual conference. As well as gathering to listen ...

The author and academic is worried about how AI will affect children’s ability to learn By New Statesman This week, the author and academic Katherine Rundell was interviewed by our culture editor ...