​The parable of the Chinese cocklepickers

In the end, the great spy novelist remained an enigma even to himself.

Orwell wrote Animal Farm at a time of global crisis as a warning about oppressive state power. Its message is as relevant as ever, says the New Statesman editor in a new introduction to the seminal book.

​Marcus Rashford, Raheem Sterling and the rise of the activist super-player 

The silence of a Covid summer 

​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.

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