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Anyway, I wrote about Farage and the politics of law and order for The New Statesman newstatesman.com/politics/uk-po…

'Like fax machines, Woolworths and names like “Barry”, the sketch show and the comedy double act have had a rough 21st century' My review of the new Mitchell and Webb: newstatesman.com/culture/tv/202…

How Britain’s long European trauma was forged in wartime Algeria. An exclusive extract from my new book—Between the Waves: The Hidden History of a Very British Revolution—in this week’s ⁦The New Statesman⁩. newstatesman.com/culture/histor…

At last! The laws of our great nation are finally being strictly enforced at the border. For the The New Statesman: newstatesman.com/politics/uk-po…

‘Starmerism, as a political creed and a historical era, appears to have entered its ebb-tide without ever crashing onto the beach.’ At and on the Reform conference, for the The New Statesman: newstatesman.com/politics/2025/…

For all the focus on the supposed “camp” day time TV aesthetic of Reform UK, as Nicholas Harris points out for The New Statesman, this is a party that is professionalising rapidly - tripling membership in a year, taking control of councils, backed by intellectuals and industrialists.

Fascinating talking to my colleagues Will Lloyd and Nicholas Harris about the Reform UK conference for the The New Statesman podcast. Sober analysis. Things have changed. The party pose an electoral threat Labour MUST take seriously youtu.be/h3CKtwgwL6U?si…

THE FIGHTBACK by Andrew Marr Last weekend’s reshuffle was a spectacular gamble, pitching the Starmer government to the right. This was the most decisive act of his premiership; not only to save his grip on power but to begin a fightback in what the Prime Minister believes is a

I went to Reform UK’s conference for the The New Statesman and asked attendees if they are “camp” - their answers might surprise you!

Fun archive this week -- Clive James on Brezhnev!

I have spent the past few months looking into standards of care for pregnant women in the prison system for the The New Statesman Three babies have died since 2019, and countless women have endured traumatising births before they’ve even been tried and sentenced.

EXCLUSIVE: George Abaraonye, the 20-year old incoming president of the Oxford Union tells The New Statesman “my words were no less insensitive than Charlie Kirk’s” newstatesman.com/politics/educa…

For a while, before the violence and shouts of “Heil fucking Hitler”, it felt like a nationalist street party. 🖊️ George Monaghan: Tommy Robinson's day of rage newstatesman.com/politics/2025/…

I wrote about Mandelson, a man completely at odds with the zeitgeist since the 2010s. He had a place within the Starmer project because it has no ideas, or values, of its own. We are looking at the Custer’s Last Stand of establishment centrism. newstatesman.com/comment/2025/0…

CAN ZOHRAN MAMDANI SAVE THE LEFT? By Ross Barkan UK EXCLUSIVE: On the campaign trail with New York’s new star What if an avowed socialist with Barack Obama’s verve and Donald Trump’s outsider magnetism completely obliterated the political establishment, all on a message of

"What if the fever-dreams of leftists everywhere were suddenly made real?" Must read Ross Barkan interview with Zohran Mamdani

For the first time ever, I wrote a profile of Zohran Mamdani. It's in the great The New Statesman, widely available in the U.K. and soon to be on the internet for all the non-Brits. We talked extensively about politics, the American left, and his ambitions for City Hall