Britain, as it actually exists, is a multi-ethnic and post-imperial country

At a balding, besuited republic in Shadwell, I met a new set of salesman

The American singer's latest album "you seem pretty sad for a girl in love" is her best yet

The PM thought defence orthodoxy would protect him. It has not

A year-long investigation into medical transition treatment at WellBN found "wholly inadequate" care.

Healey claimed he was being forced to make decisions that "could make our country less safe"

There is no evidence that religious exemptions are driving knife crime

He seems to lack the basic social skills necessary for survival

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

Amanda Craig’s new novel offers a snapshot of a society reeling from insecurity and division

Siri Hustvedt’s reflections on the death of her husband offer a wise meditation on grief and its many mutations

If you want to understand how politics works, sometimes you have to look under the bonnet. That seems to be the BBC political correspondent Ben Wright’s view – hence his exploration around the “most secretive part of the British state”. Not MI6 or GCHQ, but the Government Car Service in Vauxhall. The Wheels of Power …

Could football be a symbolic riposte to Trump’s xenophobia?

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

Andy Burnham is relying on his accent, and his taste for meat pie

Louise Haigh and Anneliese Midgley are gunning for a role in his regime, should he march on the south

Turning students into “consumers” was always going to fuel perverse incentives

In previous albums, the rapper's greatest gift was her optimism. As she returns to music, she has left the positivity behind

Bereaved families hope they will get the answers they have long fought for. But questions remain over the investigation's approach

Rupert Lowe's party could move Reform even further to the right

No amount of spin can now conceal the depth of inadequacy in our defences

The former health secretary has attacked the PM for failing to “take responsibility” for defence spending

Whether you like it or not, your pension is being drawn inexorably towards SpaceX

It’s lazy polemicism for people who don’t want to think too hard – and hope you won’t either

Labour MPs react to John Healey's resignation

The violence of the past two days cannot be separated from the online world it spawned from

It is a radicalising, deforming vision of a world which appears on the edge

I dread hearing the words "England friendly"

Its stars are whatever comes after “famous for being famous”

A poem by Will Eaves

February 2000: Can football's soul survive hooliganism, capital, and literature?

Tudor and Stuart England was more a porous nation than a sceptred isle

It’s on the River Thames

Northern Ireland now may be parsable to an England that has long found it alien, weird and foreign

Everything is broken. Nothing changes. Voters are mad as hell

Steven Spielberg's return to extraterrestrials is as brilliantly filmed as anything he has made

North Korea's leader is the quiet winner of our age of instability

Women voters may be Andy Burnham's secret weapon in this by-election

A number of of intellectuals from the worlds of politics and policy are jostling to get their ideas heard

The boycott movement is a response to occupation, not a rejection of Israelis as people

The AI-generated, white nationalist rapper’s sound is co-opted from international and anti-fascist culture

This is the story of a hardcore loyalist element which has stewed for decades in far-right ideology

The British artist has died aged 88

Institutional inertia meant Healey's defence reforms fell flat

Whatever chance there was of the PM clinging on seems gone now

And dismiss Reform’s “party of the workers” claim as “laughable”

Politics, tears and focaccia with Labour's favourite public intellectual

There's nothing wrong with a bit of gastro-nationalism

Future political historians will have to dig for messages that evaded the automatic cull

A history of the Black Death overlooks its more surprising developments

It's all fine – until summer comes

Meanwhile, the country reels from riots in Belfast

I cannot emphasise enough how this black-and-white bear appears to have taken over the entire state

In Britain and the US, how did fast food become a cultural symbol and an economic system?

In a newly released game, 007 drives a hybrid Aston Martin and has to be taught to tie a bowtie

We need to look at our children and ask why they are so unhappy

The vice president addresses Britain like a troublesome American colony

Manchesterism is sounding a lot like Londonism

Thousands are rallying against the ban, and the government that passed it

Justice will not be found through politicisation