Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News from the New Statesman

Noam Chomsky’s wife debunks ‘false’ reports of famed linguist’s death

Noam Chomsky’s wife, Valeria Wasserman Chomsky, says reports that the famed linguist and activist had died are untrue

The Independent UK

‘He made every sentence electric’: Martin Amis remembered by Tina Brown, his old friend and devoted editor

He called her Tiny. She called him Bruno. In this speech from today’s memorial service to the novelist, the legendary magazine editor celebrates her cocky, beguiling and witheringly funny star writer

The Guardian - UK

Where to start with: Buchi Emecheta

The Nigerian author of Second Class Citizen wrote from real-life experience about the universal problems of poverty and oppression that could be the burdens of women everywhere

The Guardian - UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Britain’s richest 10% don’t think they’re wealthy – and that’s disastrous in the fight against inequality

Labour’s plan to charge private schools VAT has caused predictable uproar and revealed skewed perceptions of wealth, says the New Statesman’s Anoosh Chakelian

The Guardian - UK

Derek Draper: the man he was before his tragic Covid battle

A 'ruthless' political lobbyist, a 'huge character' and the love of Kate Garraway's life. Emma Loffhagen looks back on the life of Derek Draper

Evening Standard

Andrew Lumsden obituary

Journalist and leading gay rights campaigner who helped set up Gay News and the first Pride march in 1972

The Guardian - UK

Loud and uncowed: how UnHerd owner Paul Marshall became Britain’s newest media mogul

UnHerd has quickly become one of the biggest sites for political commentary in the UK, and now the hedge fund founder behind it – who also funds GB News and donates to the Tories – is trying to add the Telegraph to a fast-growing empire. What does he really want?

The Guardian - UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Labour bid 'to block debates on Brexit and two-child cap at conference'

LABOUR are facing stiff criticism amid reports that internal rules will be tweaked to block grassroots attempts to discuss issues such…

The National (Scotland)

From the brains behind Brexit: an HS2 for the north that doesn’t actually go there

The Conservatives have turned a promising national upgrade into an absurdity, says writer and journalist Jonn Elledge

The Guardian - UK

In the Ditch by Buchi Emecheta review – ‘a documentary novel’ from the 1970s

Reissued as a Penguin Classic, the late Nigerian-born novelist’s debut work evokes life at the mercy of the welfare state in London with a sharp and wry eye

The Guardian - UK

Why are so many local councils on the brink of bankruptcy?

As many as 30 councils are at risk of bankruptcy and the UK’s local government funding system is “completely broken”, according to a new survey of the sector.

The Week

Former newspaper editor given suspended sentence for viewing child sexual abuse

Peter Wilby, former editor of the Independent on Sunday, had more than 100 indecent images of children on his computer

The Guardian - UK

UK Health Secretary's former aide calls for 'full privatisation' of NHS

A FORMER aide to Health Secretary Steve Barclay has called for the “full privatisation” of the NHS.

The National (Scotland)

Early retirees: should they get on their bikes?

Although for decades he was greeted by cries of “on your bike” wherever he went, Norman Tebbit never told anyone to get on a bike, said John Elledge in The New Statesman. He merely recalled, at the Tory conference in 1981, that during the Depression, his father had pedalled around…

The Week

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Fortune

Meet the 29-year-old doctor leading Bryan Johnson’s $2 million per year reverse aging process, which reportedly costs up to $1,000 an hour

“I love competition, and turning rejuvenation into a scientifically valid competition is very exciting,” Zolman once said.

The Week

Two-child benefit cap: a litmus test for Keir Starmer?

Keir Starmer is performing a careful balancing act between maintaining his party’s economic credibility and defending a policy that is deeply unpopular among the majority of Labour MPs and supporters.

The Week

Left out: is this the end for Labour’s Corbynites?

Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell and Diane Abbott: back in 2015 they were heralded as the left-wing “triumvirate who took control of Labour”.

The Week

Stevenage Woman: the voter who may decide the next election

It is a long acknowledged rule in British politics that a prospective party of government must identify its target demographic with an easily defined stereotype.

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Week

Local elections 2023: the seats in contention and who might win

Just one day before polls open in England for the 2023 local elections, Labour is continuing to enjoy healthy double-digit leads, pointing to a potentially bruising result for Rishi Sunak in his first big test since becoming prime minister and Conservative leader in October.

Evening Standard

OPINION - These new-look Tories are posing very awkward questions for Labour

Without fanfare, boring politics is back. The Tories are identifying problems they then seek to fix. Labour is responding by saying it is nothing more than a sticking plaster. This is the accusation that will run until the next general election. In his article in the New Statesman in which…

The Guardian - UK

BBC cowardice caused the Gary Lineker rebellion. And there will be more unless it finds some courage

The corporation needs clear and consistent rules. But more than anything it must learn to stop cowering before politicians, says writer and broadcaster John Kampfner

1 2

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

The Liberal Democrats

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.