An open letter to the government from leading authors, artists and public figures By New Statesman Sally Rooney is a writer, ...

It is an inherently dishonest way to run a country By Will Dunn In recent decades, a sinister new force has assumed power in Westminster. They can appear in any political party. They are formidable at ...

Merlin Strategy’s exclusive polling reveals a growing gender divide among under-30s By Scarlett Maguire The prevailing narrative is that young men, under the influence of the manosphere and enchanted ...

The Sally Rooney affair shows how laws meant to target terrorism now suppress the freedom to dissent By Tanjil Rashid If you ever sought out the novels of Sally Rooney in bookshops – when that was ...

July 1997: What to make of the Labour government’s first budget? An open letter to the government from leading authors, artists and public figures This column is our weekly pub review, written by ...

Josh Glancy is editor of News Review at The Sunday Times. The bar for banning an artist from Britain should be unbelievably high Inside the fake news crisis at the community paper.

Six international authors compete for the high prize of English-language novels By Tanjil Rashid, Zuzanna Lachendro and George Monaghan Former winner Kiran Desai makes the shortlist for this year’s ...

Opposition to the government’s asylum reforms is spreading beyond the usual suspects Some Labour backbenchers have already come out publicly against the government’s radical reforms to the asylum ...

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 ...

The results of the May elections look set to be record-breaking By Ben Walker To understand the scale of Labour’s problem in 2026, you only need to look at 2025. Polling in the mid-20s, the party went ...

“Scroungers” are back, courtesy of the Conservative party and the right-wing press By Anoosh Chakelian The residents of James Turner Street, a row of soggy terraces to the west of inner-city ...

Her electric Robert Galbraith novels portray a Britain populated by paedophiles, domestic abusers, rapists and terrorists. By Nick Hilton It isn’t long into The Silkworm – JK Rowling’s 2014 crime ...