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Could the polls be wrong in London?
Sadiq Khan looks a certainty in London. But some in Labour are nervous. "It looks certain to me that Sadiq will win," one Labour MP said recently. Her Conservative counterparts agree. It is...
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Don’t speak too soon – the Freedom of Information fight is not over yet
Ministers have ruled out sweeping changes to the Freedom of Information Act, but campaigners still have concerns. There will be no wholesale changes to the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act, following...
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What to look out for on Super Tuesday
Twelve states are holding primaries or caucuses. Super Tuesday has arrived. For the uninitiated, this isn’t about shopping, like Black Friday. It’s one of the most important days in the quadrennial...
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David Cameron's deal is a farce - the Remain campaign should steer clear of it
Winning ugly won't work, warns David Clark. David Cameron’s referendum pitch relies heavily on the mantra a “reformed Europe”, but it would be wrong for pro-Europeans to indulge the idea that the...
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Creepy, well-meaning, or sexist? Looking for love on Bernie Singles, the...
“The 1 per cent aren’t the only ones getting screwed this election season.” A 64-year-old Bernie Sanders fan is about to try and sign me up for a Fifty Shades of Grey-style sexual submission contract....
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Where next for the Republic of Ireland?
What happened - and where do the Republic's politics go from here? Regardless of individual political quirks, parliamentary procedures, or cultural customs elections around the world are invariably...
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SRSLY #33: Hail, Channing!
We chat the Oscars, Coen brothers' film Hail, Caesar!, Radio 4 drama season Riot Girls, and the Brie Larson film Short Term 12. This is SRSLY, the pop culture podcast from the New Statesman. Here, you...
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Donald Trump is a warning to Britain's politicians: we've got to get our act...
Trump's success is a howl of rage at an economy that doesn't work anymore, says Liam Byrne. The shock and awe of Donald Trump’s surge is gruesome viewing for the millions of progressives who admire...
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That "happy families are all alike" line is rubbish - just consider Ian...
Their Promised Land: My Grandparents in Love and War is a personal story of two German-Jewish émigrés as they make a life in England. It is one of the measures of Tolstoy’s greatness that he has had us...
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Watch: Chris Christie's horrified face behind Donald Trump's Super Tuesday...
Staring into the void.*/ Chris Christie dropped out of the presidential race, endorsed Donald Trump, and then... fell prey to a ravenous worm of regret. Just look at his face of melancholy and...
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Gold Fame Citrus is a "cli-fi" novel - the dystopia of choice in the era of...
Claire Vaye Watkins's new novel imagines California after an ecological disaster. But what does it say about our interest in literary apocalypse? Ultimately, the consistency of our results suggests an...
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Donald Trump and the GOP's “Kodak error”
The question now is whether Trump can do to Hillary Clinton what he did to the Republican establishment. David Plouffe, the operational mastermind of Obama’s 2008 campaign, is now a senior executive...
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In this week's magazine | Germany's migrant crisis and the rise of the far right
A first look at this week's issue.4th - 10th March 2016 issueGermany's migrant crisis and the rise of the far rightCover story: The German problem. Mark Leonard on Germany’s migrant crisis and the...
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Labour's battle over the NEC comes to an end - for now
Both the left and centre-left have reasons for optimism in the struggles ahead. The bitter war to become Labour’s youth representative on the party’s ruling national executive committee came to an...
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PMQs review: David Cameron's Varoufakis jibe throws Jeremy Corbyn off course
The Labour leader had no riposte to the PM's predictable "Acropolis Now" line. After George Osborne yesterday mocked Labour’s recruitment of Yanis Varoufakis and Paul Mason (“Chairman Mao was dead and...
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A good night for Donald Trump - but he's not inevitable yet
Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton is all-but-inevitable. Is it possible that a day when he won seven states was actually a slightly underwhelming Super Tuesday for Donald Trump? On the one hand, the notion...
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Is President Zuma fatally wounded?
The South African president, the country’s economy and even the future stability of the political system, are now in question. On Tuesday South African President Jacob Zuma faced a no confidence...
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Nefertiti for everyone: returning Egypt’s cultural history with the help of a...
Where do cultural artefacts belong? And what do we really mean by “original”? Nefertiti’s 3,300-year-old bust is one of the most famous artefacts of the Ancient Egyptian world. But to join the...
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You Asked Us: Why Do Black Voters Support Hillary Clinton?
Ethnic minority voters are the key to Hillary Clinton's presidential bid. Why don't they like Bernie Sanders? Hillary Clinton won almost everywhere with everyone last night. She won women – by 32...
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Jeremy Corbyn and David Cameron won’t face each other in 2020 – but who will...
Both leaders are focused on the enemy within, rather than without. In July 2015, shortly after Jeremy Corbyn became the front-runner for the Labour leadership, David Cameron bumped into him in a...
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