Politics from the New Statesman

Does Keir Starmer deserve more credit for keeping us out of a third Gulf war? Is Farage's relationship with Trump hurting Reform's polling? And who are the bright young things in British politics?Anoosh Chakelian is joined by Tom McTague and Ailbhe Rea to answer your questions.LI ...  Show more

Does Keir Starmer deserve more credit for keeping us out of a third Gulf war? Is Farage's relationship with Trump hurting Reform's polling? And who are the bright young things in British politics?Anoosh Chakelian is joined by Tom McTague and Ailbhe Rea to answer your questions.LI ...  Show more

Criticism of Labour's response to the global threat, Trump's AI Jesus and parliament's "summer of sex".Will Dunn and Anoosh Chakelian round up this week's stories.Any suggestions for next week's categories, please comment below.📚 READ: https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/the-s ...  Show more

For years, we have wrung our hands about the manosphere: the misogynist influencers like Andrew Tate exploiting a generation of disillusioned and impressionable lost boys.But what about radicalised young women?New, exclusive polling for the New Statesman has uncovered a huge diff ...  Show more

Trump’s "demented" Easter announcement, Britain’s squeezed middle and getting “the ick” for Zack Polanski…Anoosh Chakelian and Will Dunn round up the stories of the week.READ: https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/the-sketch/2026/04/the-trumps-wish-the-world-a-very-demented-easte ...  Show more

AI is embedded in the machinery of the British state: drafting legislation, shaping spending decisions, informing interest rate policy and writing speeches delivered in parliament.Has Britain handed over political power without ever really deciding to, and without fully understan ...  Show more