The response from Pyongyang to the US president’s overtures has been silence By Katie Stallard Donald Trump appears to be trying to get Kim Jong Un’s attention. On 16 August, as the US military was ...

Did the Green Party top up its deputy leader’s wages with public money? Leeds City Council will review the allocation of £5,800 to Mothin Ali By Megan Kenyon The Green Party has been accused of using ...

The deportations and offshoring that Nigel Farage advocates are becoming facts of European politics By Alexander Etkind As the world heats up, Nazi wrecks are rising from the depths. Record-low water ...

They’re giving up on finance as well as romance By Pippa Bailey The growing divergence in political sensibilities between young men and young women has been well catalogued in recent years. The more ...

Simon Winder is an author and a publishing director of Penguin Press. His books include Germania, Danubia and Lotharingia (Picador). Also this week: rediscovering a lost diary, and trying to complete ...

Behind every headline was a human being: a son, a brother, a colleague and a teacher By Simon Woolley The millions of people around the world who encountered Professor Jason Arday through the deluge ...

Can a large language model learn literary judgement? By Phoebe Pascoe When Erin Hoover, the poet laureate of Cookeville, Tennessee, was getting her PhD in creative writing, her professor used to ask ...

The Reform leader now looks like the one who can’t take a joke By Jonn Elledge The traditional choice after winning an overwhelming victory in a by-election you triggered yourself would be to do some ...

Her new album Lost Weekend intertwines heartbreak and new love with grieving her father’s death By Hannah Ison Phoebe Bridgers is a motorbike-riding elf queen in the music video of “Lost Boys”, the ...

Megan Kenyon is a political correspondent at the New Statesman. She was previously a court reporter at the Old Bailey covering grisly murder cases. She has been reading the New Statesman since she was ...

A UK politics podcast hosted by Anoosh Chakelian with contributions from New Statesman writers including political editor Andrew Marr. Awarded Best Political Podcast for the third year running at the ...

The Greater Manchester mayor set out his case for “business friendly socialism” By Ethan Croft Andy Burnham has repeated his claim that Britain is too “in hock to the bond markets” and set out his ...