Returning again to Clausewitz, the base of his theory is that wars are usually fought for political, not military, goals. And ...

Clive Lewis’s offer of his seat to Andy Burnham shows how Labour’s shadow leadership contest has intensified.

James Marcus. James Marcus is the author of Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Princeton University Press) ...

Historians’ dismissal of the continent’s Muslim legacy is helping to feed contemporary divisions By David Motadel In 1993, ...

Burnham said of Lewis’s comments: “I appreciate the support but I couldn’t have brought forward a plan of the kind that I’ve ...

On his centenary, Bauman’s pessimistic utopianism is a lesson for the left – and the Labour Party ...

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It is hard to believe that Rachel Cooke has gone. I am not the only New Statesman reader who told themselves they turned ...

roy Parrott’s goal at the death of the World Cup Qualifier against Hungary was enough on its own. Back from London for the ...

This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain – has run in the ...

Studies have repeatedly confirmed that, under laboratory conditions at least, supersize portions result in our eating around a third more calories than if the food had been served in more modest ...