After a bin strike that has run for weeks, rubbish and rats are consuming Birmingham. Have we forgotten our second city?

If America ever stops being the world’s leading power, then the dollar would also cease being the global reserve currency.

People from other countries are buying access to the UK state pension and receiving a retirement of guaranteed, inflation-protected income at the expense of the British taxpayer. I can reveal that not ...

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Climate Emergency UK. Local authorities are critical to tackling rising emissions and the decline of nature.

Richard Benwell. Richard Benwell is chief executive of Wildlife and Countryside Link. Latest articles. Sustainability. Councils should have a legal duty to fight climate change. L ...

Councils have begun calling for a climate statutory duty themselves. The Local Government Association’s Local Infrastructure & Net Zero Board voted to endorse the principle of a climate statutory duty ...

But if Donald Trump insists on fighting one, the Chinese leader might well draw encouragement from the fact that he is up ...

They are, however, two of the most significant and consequential figures in public life. Roy and Boyle are the people’s brain ...

Sampling a selection of bottles available at reduced prices to readers through the recently launched New Statesman Wine Club.

The singer-turned-spy is just one of many 20th-century artists who fled American racism and escaped to Europe.

One of the ironies of Brexit is that since leaving the EU, the UK has become a more European country. Tax and spending levels ...