3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (74+ words) Holborn and St Pancras is Labour’s to lose New Statesman The party’s candidate Sagal Abdi-Wali is viewed as being close to Starmer This by-election was triggered after Keir Starmer resigned the seat on 1 September, parliament’s first day back after the…...

6+ day, 18+ hour ago   (108+ words) New Statesman Zack Polanski is being challenged for selection as the Green Party candidate in Holborn and St Pancras. Hamza Chowdhury, a councillor for Holborn and Covent Garden, announced this morning that he will put himself forward for selection as…...

1+ week, 2+ hour ago   (139+ words) New Statesman Four days after Andy Burnham won the Makerfield by-election, Keir Starmer resigned as prime minister. Four days after that, his office posted a job ad for a caseworker, with a closing date of 12 July. The successful candidate was…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (157+ words) New Statesman In April 2019, hordes of Extinction Rebellion activists brought London to a standstill. At four points across the capital – Marble Arch, Oxford Circus, Waterloo Bridge and Parliament Square – thousands of people, worried about rising global temperatures, gathered to peacefully…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (117+ words) New Statesman The Green Party is split over whether Zack Polanski should be the party’s candidate in the upcoming Holborn and St Pancras by-election. On Tuesday (1 September), Keir Starmer announced he would be standing down from the seat, triggering a…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (195+ words) New Statesman In the far-flung reaches of London Zone 5 lies Hatton Cross, a station most Tube passengers only encounter as the place to change trains in a panic if you realise you’re headed for the wrong Heathrow terminal. I step…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (254+ words) New Statesman So little is known about Emily Jane Brontë’s private inner life and her largely sequestered outer life that her biographers have been led into a maze of speculation. Some of this borders on the wildly (but nevertheless possible)…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (88+ words) New Statesman This column is our weekly pub review, written by pintsmen, women and children across the nation. Suggestions to [email protected] This item, as you know, is written by a different anonymous contributor each week. This keeps things objective, with…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (225+ words) New Statesman A young man who has lived with different kinds of disadvantage all his life is elevated to a position of influence and privilege. In this position he is exposed to consistent, merciless attack, until there is no way…...