​The possibility of post-traumatic growth 

Can you teach the art of leadership?

If Brexit is an English revolt what will happen to England after Brexit?

​A musician of extraordinary depths 

Not since Conrad had a novelist so completely absorbed himself in the shifting complexities of his age, or written more sharply about the dark places of the world. 

How the World Cup and Gareth Southgate’s young, diverse team reawakened a sense of progressive English nationalism

The three men had been drinking for several hours by the time they arrived at The Stow shopping centre in Harlow. It was approaching midnight on a warm bank holiday weekend towards the end of August. What happened next would reverberate around the world ... ​Richard Beard seeks to uncover the truth behind a long-ago family tragedy

What happened to the best and the brightest of New Labour? 

​The dominant tone of English discourse is one of regret

​Was it more fun being young in the 1980s?

​The private anguish, and public success of David Cornwell. The English writer is revealed in all his fierce integrity in a new collection of journalism.

The final days of the Scottish referendum campaign

As a student, her urgent writing about her generation had already reached a wider audience. Her death, days after graduation, lends her words extra power. New Statesman editor Jason Cowley speaks to Anthony Little, headmaster of Eton College, about the role of public schools, the new crop of Etonians ruling public life and Gove's education reforms.

We are missing a British writer to whom we can turn and learn from at moments of national consequence or crisis

Reporting from Tel Aviv and Ramallah as the latest rash of violence began to sweep Israel, Jason Cowley finds a nation implacably set on a course of war . . . and increasingly disconnected from the world. After the war, Harlow was supposed to offer east Londoners the chance of a fresh start and a stab at the good life. This month, it became the place where a suspicious fire killed six members of a Muslim family. The Prime Minister's lack of originality.

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