Diary - New Statesman

An audience with media power players in NYC

Also this week: medieval epidemiology, and the scourge of child sex abuse.

By Sarah Baxter

The Sunak-Modi bilateral

Also this week: the G20 summit that saved the world and the beating heart of England.

By Kim Darroch

Leaving politics behind on a liberating coastal wander

Also this week: A close encounter with Labour luvvies, and chaos at the British Museum.

By Sasha Swire

The case for student salaries

Also this week: the unfairness of A-levels and ministers who say results don’t matter.

By Lorna Finlayson

Why the rich just keep getting richer

Also this week: an oak that will outlive us all and the problem with dogs.

By Phil Jones

America’s real-life crime thriller

Also this week: why journalists should back Hollywood’s strikes.

By Tina Brown

Why MPs are fleeing Westminster

Also this week: Rage at Wimbledon and Tory snobbery over “Mickey Mouse” degrees.

By Jess Phillips

Why the EU has out-Trumped Trump

Europe has proved far more adept at building walls than the former US president was.

By Yanis Varoufakis

My night out in Colchester

Also this week: the worst margarita of our lives, and Russia’s hot-dog rebels.

By Sasha Swire

Why adults should put their phones away

Also this week: nourishing our children and the social media con.

By Rebecca Smith

The remarkable range of Glenda Jackson

Also this week: admiring the Elgin Marbles, and enduring the rigmarole of chemotherapy.

By Joan Bakewell

My first days in charge of the Evening Standard prompt a return to office habits

Also this week: a word of warning for Sadiq Khan and reflecting on the new age of AI journalism.

By Dylan Jones

A life in books and why prizes matter

Also this week: the art of rejecting authors and how all the best stories are true.

By Dotti Irving

Brain surgery in a warzone

For Ukrainians, victory is inevitable – but in the country’s hospitals, it is clear that winning the war will come…

By Henry Marsh

Why the government’s court action against striking nurses is an act of vindictive idiocy

Also this week: a guitar from Sting, and a literary reminder of why being 16 was never sweet.

By Rachel Clarke

Reuniting Everything But the Girl, pop culture’s high priest, and perfecting the art of the selfie

Now our album is being released, I feel like I could cry at any moment – while reaching for the…

By Tracey Thorn

Sigrid Rausing’s Diary: Why it’s time to step down at Granta, the sound of music, and the art of making lists

Our Best of Young British Novelists list proved that publishing is more permeable, and more transformative, than we imagine.

By Sigrid Rausing

The transporting effects of plane reading, how not to adapt Dickens, and why I care only for novels

I rarely see anything on television or in the cinema as adventurous as what can be found in a book.

By Howard Jacobson

An audience with the King, London’s pest problem, and why the English are afraid of the Scots

There was a hoopla in Colchester for the royal visit, with small children waving flags and a brass band.

By Rosie Millard