During its membership, the UK exerted a disproportionately strong influence on EU legislation, often in subtle ways.

The energy in politics is with the populist right – and the left doesn’t know how to respond.

A year ago, our writer stood for local election – and won by a landslide. But there was a catch: now he had to be a ...

Having roundly rejected the Democrats’ progressivist dogma, the American electorate is undergoing a social and demographic ...

This Christmas issue is my last as editor of the New Statesman: I am standing down after 16 years at the end of 2024. It has ...

Three news stories; three illustrations of a fissiparous Europe dismally unready for inauguration day on 20 January. Since ...

The Conservative leader’s record in government means that Keir Starmer can easily fend off attacks on immigration and farming ...

Labour has always been a coalition between liberal optimism and statist social democracy. But today’s liberals find ...

An exclusive interview with the presenter on leaving Match of the Day, the war in Gaza, and his right-wing tormentors.

The collection of staff gathered outside the Guardian ’s head office near London’s Kings Cross today (4 December) could have ...

Garwood (1908-51) is now, belatedly, being put first. The exhibition of her work at Dulwich Picture Gallery is a delight and ...

The US president repeatedly vowed not to pardon his son. In his final weeks in office he did it anyway.