Harry Lambert
Harry Lambert is a staff writer and editor at the New Statesman. He also edits the Saturday Read newsletter. He has written cover features on universities, No 10, the BBC, Labour, and AI.
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Ben Smith: “The New York Times hired a bunch of lunatics”
The former BuzzFeed News editor on covering Donald Trump, the lure of social media, and how to restore trust…
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Is Westminster broken?
From lobby journalism to civil service press teams, Problems in British politics seem hard to fix
Simon McDonald: “It’s the end of the game for Britain”
The former head of the Foreign Office on the UK’s decline, why we should not “make an enemy” of…
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Is Substack the future of media?
Elon Musk’s ruin of Twitter has been a boon for the newsletter platform, which is reshaping the market for…
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Westminster is broken
Ian Dunt’s new book reveals Britain as a country of inept civil servants, deluded ministers, blinkered journalists and unscrutinised…
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Mehdi Hasan on 110 years of the New Statesman: “David Cameron didn’t like me”
The MSNBC host recalls his time as the magazine’s senior editor (politics), 2009-2012.
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Rosie Duffield: “You never change sex”
The Labour MP's views on gender self-ID have been met with fierce opposition. Can her party find a compromise?
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Once upon a time in Wakefield
The truth about one white 14-year-old schoolboy and a Koran is less straightforward than the culture war narrative suggests.
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