​What Nietzsche knew ​Are we entering a period of social repair? ​Labour MPs are spooked by Brexit fears ​Why millennials are the best behaved generation since the 1960s A warning for Labour, our zombie opposition: London is not England, and England is not Britain The far right rises as the Nordic welfare model is tested to breaking point Corbyn might want “a world of peace” but hermit security is not an option for the UK The next Labour leader needs to watch and learn from David Cameron and George Osborne. Andy Burnham thinks he’s an outsider but he’s really just another member of the “Westminster Guild”. New Statesman editor Jason Cowley gives his election post-mortem. Ed Miliband’s defeat and resignation are a personal humiliation and a family tragedy. The UK's ancient constitution must be reformed to spread power more evenly. The Labour leader is convinced of his destiny but his rag-bag set of policies are incoherent. If the New Statesman has a sister publication, it is the New Republic. The magazine's collapse provokes us to ask whether such an institution can be more than a vanity project without destroying its purpose and heritage, or losing its political identity altogether. Two weeks ago, Jason Cowley, editor of Labour’s house journal the New Statesman, triggered Ed Miliband’s leadership crisis by describing him as an ‘old-style Hampstead socialist’ and ‘quasi-Marxist’. Jason Cowley on the struggles and woes of the Labour leader. Nicola Sturgeon is adored by the party’s activists. She is a formidable machine politician and a capable media performer. Our present constitutional settlement is not merely unacceptable; it is broken. NS editor Jason Cowley writes from a cold, grey-skied Edinburgh on the eve of the vote. Alex Salmond, whose political mission from the outset was to destroy Great Britain, might end up creating the conditions in which it can be remade and thus saved.

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