Magazine

How Labour can win again

Working-class voters did not abandon the party – we have forced them to leave

By Al Carns

Run, Angela Rayner, run

Also: my new podcast, and working with Morgan McSweeney

By Sam Tarry

The risks and rewards of Starmercide

Whether it’s Wes or Andy, the party must believe it can do better

By Andrew Marr

Krapp’s Last Tape’s endless returns

Gary Oldman’s brilliant adaptation proves how much we rely on technology to relive our lives

By Rachel Cunliffe

A view of Britain from the Highlands

Also: a quirky kind of nationalism, and the wit of James Joyce

By Andrew Marr

I bear little resemblance to my Wikipedia page

It had clearly been edited by someone trying to make me out to be an enemy of the people

By Nicholas Lezard

How do you picture yourself?

A Century in a Click is an ode to the romance of the photobooth

By Rachel Cunliffe

How cricket bent its rules

The game’s history is full of instances of foul play

By Mihir Bose

Letter of the week: Signs of decline

Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine

By New Statesman

Beer and sandwiches: At the Granta, Cambridge

This column is our weekly pub review, written by pintsmen, women and children across the nation. Suggestions to letters@newstatesman.co.uk

By New Statesman

Policy sclerosis is ravaging the NHS and Whitehall

Can it be cured?

By Phil Whitaker

Beef season two: Rich people are, like, so gross

The Emmy-winning programme is a terrific addition to a familiar archetype

By Nicholas Harris

Election broadcasts are disturbing psychological thrillers

Which of them is worst? They are all awful in their own way

By Will Dunn

Cats can now talk to humans. What are they trying to say?

Readers may suspect I have gone mad

By Rachel Cunliffe

Istanbul: the fish is better than the infrastructure

Mackerel from the Bosphorus is as good as WB Yeats said

By Finn McRedmond

When Steven Spielberg predicted AI

Steven Spielberg’s AI has been re-released 25 years on – and it offers a surprising perspective on today’s dystopian fears

By David Sexton

Sylvia Townsend Warner’s obscure forces

Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Lolly Willowes, published a century ago, is a powerful reverie on women’s interwar status

By Claire Harman

David Attenborough’s natural habitats

The broadcaster, who turns 100, had a life before Life on Earth

By David Hendy

Paging Prime Minister Farage

A semi-fictional account predicting how a future Reform government would unfold is thrilling – and chilling

By Andrew Marr

As the world shifts around us, Ukraine fights on

Thawing relations between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin have allowed Russia to globalise its war

By Oleksandr Mykhed