The housing market is calcifying
Any narrative of falling prices is a distraction from the real issue
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We’re all trying to find the guy who introduced these student loans!
Everyone remembers the Conservative Party created this system
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Kemi Badenoch’s strange speech on Iran and the by-election
The Tory leader attempted to fuse the two subjects together
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Gisèle Pelicot is not your hero
In her new memoir, Pelicot rejects the pedestal she has been put on
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How Putin is backing Iran’s war effort
A prolonged conflict in the Middle East would serve Russia’s interests
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The Iran war makes it official – America is breaking with Europe
The Maga movement thinks Europeans are fundamentally unserious on foreign policy
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On the genealogy of Peter Mandelson’s morality
The prince of darkness has fallen. But where did his appetite for risk come from?
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Abandon all hope at the Your Party hustings
Zoom-related difficulties besieged the party’s CEC election hustings
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The Tories will fight Reform to the death
The two “blue” parties could have almost identical manifestos
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We know everything and nothing about Molly Russell
The teen belonged to the most documented generation in history
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London hates tourists – just look at the West End
Pity the foreigners looking for a good meal on Shaftesbury Avenue
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Sirāt makes raving sacred
But be warned: the film is savage and uncomfortable
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Beer and sandwiches: At the Rye Waterworks Micropub
This column is our weekly pub review, written by pintsmen, women and children across the nation. Suggestions to letters@newstatesman.co.uk
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From the archive: The end of the two-party system
March 1962: A by-election shocks the legacy parties
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Hunting for a secret admirer and a scam artist
More than one part of my life was unbalanced
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Can young voters save British democracy?
Extending the franchise to 16-year-olds will change not just the scale of our elections, but their character
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Nintendo: the company that consoled the world
The gaming corporation succeeded by shunning the slaughter and darkness that drives so many franchises
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How to turn breast milk into a cash cow
The market for erotic lactation, IVF and surrogacy is a morally complex world of desperation and exploitation
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The NS Poem: Footprints
A new poem by Blake Morrison
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James Meek’s broken Britain
The LRB essayist’s new novel draws from his reporting on a dysfunctional nation
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