9+ hour, 31+ min ago  (1507+ words) New Statesman Who could turn this scene down? We're at Riverwalk, 161 Millbank, London SW1 " a rippling, attention-seeking luxury apartment block in Pimlico, where units sell for between "2, 100, 000 and "4, 850, 000. Inside, on the fifth floor, is one goon, one chancer and one na'f;…...

3+ hour, 14+ min ago  (414+ words) New Statesman Labour remains at odds over the Green challenge as the clock ticks down to election day on 7 May. Our political editor Ailbhe Rea has written the politics column this week on the internal debate about the Greens within…...

9+ hour, 31+ min ago  (388+ words) How AI captured Westminster The meeting did not discuss the details of what these savings implied. But Clifford had already stated, months earlier, that there were no "holes" in government that could conveniently be plugged by AI. The only way…...

23+ hour, 53+ min ago  (164+ words) As the country braces for a price shock, what it means to be poor is changing The markets know this. And your average Brit knows it in their bones, too. Inflation expectations among the public have made the biggest jump…...

1+ day, 4+ min ago  (265+ words) Write to letters@newstatesman. co. uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine It was a Friday evening, and, on asking a woman entering what was going on, we discovered there was an Erev Shabbat service, to…...

23+ hour, 21+ min ago  (787+ words) New Statesman Back home for Easter, to the north-east, God's country. For the first time in a few years, my wife and I decided to drive home rather than take the train. What a depressing thing it is to drive…...

23+ hour, 34+ min ago  (216+ words) New Statesman In 2010, Riz Ahmed starred in Chris Morris's Four Lions, one of the most daring films that could conceivably be made about British Muslims. As a comedy about a homegrown cell of aspiring terrorists, it is simultaneously murderous and…...

23+ hour, 19+ min ago  (288+ words) New Statesman What do you get when you combine air-dried South African meat, a gregarious New Zealander and the punks, mods and careworn faces of south-east London? Big John's Biltong Bar in Deptford is a high-tolerance, lackadaisical pub devoted to…...

22+ hour, 37+ min ago  (116+ words) The philosopher's new book on assisted dying is part of a developing critique of moral libertarianism This is not a book about gender " so it would be uncharitable to assess it primarily in the light of Stock's earlier work on…...

23+ hour, 57+ min ago  (470+ words) The conflict could not have come at a worse time for either nation Two Syrian International Rescue Committee (IRC) staff accompanying my visit told me about the first time they returned after the fall of the hated Bashar al-Assad regime....