A young man has died. Where was the possibility of absolution? By Rowan Williams A young man who has lived with different kinds of disadvantage all his life is elevated to a position of influence and ...

While governments put their faith in artificial intelligence, a “techlash” is building among a younger generation By Phil Tinline How to medicate those sclerotic, wheezing twins, the British economy ...

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 ...

All the locals we met were frustrated with politics and years of neglect By Anoosh Chakelian Clacton is a conundrum. A day out there can lead you from day-trippers enjoying the beautiful sandy ...

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 university’s place in the public imagination is as illusory as Jason Arday’s academic credentials By David Runciman Oceans of virtual ink have been spilled about the case of Jason Arday because it ...

The Reform leader didn’t turn up to his own by-election By Anoosh Chakelian Nigel Farage has won the Clacton by-election, in a contest boycotted by every other major party. But in the end, even he ...

Whatever AOC now claims, the psychic distortions we call “woke” are the currency of American politics By Lee Siegel “Woke 1.0 was crazy.” So saideth Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and it’s a measure of the ...

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 ...

The modern far-right is not a return to fascism, but a new and original threat. By Richard Seymour The far-right is on the march; the left has rallied to defeat it. In a month which has seen the Trump ...

The new film leaves you baffled by what the Bourdain cult was ever about By David Sexton When Anthony Bourdain took his own life in 2018 at the age of 61, the New Statesman’s tribute proclaimed him to ...

The following are selected answers from Yanis Varoufakis’s appearance on The Exchange with Oli Dugmore. Oli Dugmore: Last year, reflecting on 2025, you identified three upsets in the foreign policy ...