An open letter to the government from leading authors, artists and public figures By New Statesman Sally Rooney is a writer, ...

Merlin Strategy’s exclusive polling reveals a growing gender divide among under-30s By Scarlett Maguire The prevailing narrative is that young men, under the influence of the manosphere and enchanted ...

The Green Party leader’s boast of replacing Labour has become a cautionary tale By Megan Kenyon On a drizzly morning last September, Zack Polanski delivered his first speech as leader of the Green ...

The Sally Rooney affair shows how laws meant to target terrorism now suppress the freedom to dissent By Tanjil Rashid If you ever sought out the novels of Sally Rooney in bookshops – when that was ...

New polling shows a majority of the public want to rejoin By Ethan Croft The fullest plan yet for the UK to rejoin the European Union has been published in the wake of the Prime Minister’s call for a ...

Despite the fanfare about Burnham saving jury trials, the core of Starmer and Lammy’s proposals remain By Rachel Cunliffe Over the summer I spent a day at Highbury Magistrates’ Court, a looming ...

Josh Glancy is editor of News Review at The Sunday Times. The bar for banning an artist from Britain should be unbelievably high Inside the fake news crisis at the community paper.

The party is split after voting to define Zionism as racism By Megan Kenyon Green Party members backed a motion to describe Zionism as racism on Sunday (4 October), with 1022 votes for and 813 votes ...

Energy policy has left us perilously exposed to global shocks By Dieter Helm When Israel and the US attacked Iran, there were bound to be consequences for the countries that depended on Gulf oil and ...

Why religion is thriving in a non-believing age. By Madeleine Davies In JL Carr’s A Month in the Country, the story of a young survivor of the First World War, set in the unusually hot English summer ...

Her electric Robert Galbraith novels portray a Britain populated by paedophiles, domestic abusers, rapists and terrorists. By Nick Hilton It isn’t long into The Silkworm – JK Rowling’s 2014 crime ...

Operation “Gideon’s Chariots”, Israel’s latest assault on Gaza, began on the night of 16 May 2025. Sometimes the names of military operations carry a message. Gideon was the biblical liberator of ...