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Emmanuel Macron was supposed to do two things. First, turn France into a dynamic, low-tax, high-tech nation with a lean state and sound finances. Second, keep “populism” – by which his supporters mean
What is it like being Gary Lineker? “You know, that’s a really difficult question to answer,” Gary Lineker said when I visited him at home in west London, “because I am Gary Lineker. So, therefore, w
Back in February, Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar told the New Statesman: “I am really open with Keir and the UK shadow cabinet that I want to and need to be going into a 2026 election in
This was a speech about definition. As the Prime Minister took to the podium at the iconic Pinewood Studios just outside London, the stakes felt more like those for a government two-thirds into its te
Following the 1962 attempt on his life that would later be depicted in the film The Day of the Jackal, Charles de Gaulle was considering his own future, and that of his political project. He put a ref
Sky-high housing costs are top of Londoners’ concerns, and the need to get new homes built is top of the in-tray for Sadiq Khan’s third term as London Mayor, as it is for the new government. The first
There are few policy areas that expose the inequity in this country more than housing. There are 3.3 million homes that don’t meet the Decent Homes Standard. More than 150,000 children are living in t
During the First World War, in the overcrowded tenements of Glasgow, a key battle in Britain’s labour history was taking shape. The Glasgow rent strikes of 1915 were part of an emerging phenomenon tha
There are few people who have had as big an impact on the social housing sector in the recent past than the campaigner Kwajo Tweneboa. Tweneboa, 25, has lived in social housing for most of his life an
Twenty years ago – before the iPhone, before Spotify, when Tony Blair was in Downing Street, Taylor Swift was in Nashville and TikTok was the noise made by a mechanical time-telling device – a traditi
As the sun set behind Manhattan’s sprouting new skyscrapers on 10 May 1929, a young American journalist walked up the gangplank of a liner bound for England. He was Vincent Sheean, born just before Ch
W hen Vilfredo Pareto wrote that history is “a graveyard of aristocracies”, he meant the observation to apply to all ruling elites. The Italian economist and political theorist’s description illuminat
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 been a privilege to edit this great magazine for so long and I am especiall
On the Monday after my by-election win, I presented myself at Plough Lane, the headquarters of Herefordshire Council. I was greeted by John Coleman from Democratic Services, who was to supervise my en
Here are three questions for a Christmas quiz about England for my fellow citizens to ponder over. 1. Who do you call if you want to call England? 2. Three men, a left-winger, a right-winger and a cen
