On 15 February Nicola Sturgeon announced her resignation as First Minister of Scotland. Having known Sturgeon since she became Alex Salmond's "shy but ambitious" deputy at the SNP in 2007, the New Statesman's Scotland editor, Chris Deerin, reflects on the political skills that drove her remarkable rise, and how her fixation on a new independence referendum and gender recognition reform hastened her undoing. Does the SNP's dream of an independent Scotland, he asks, end with Nicola Sturgeon?
This spring the Cambridge Literary Festival celebrates its 20th anniversary – for the best part of a decade it has been running in association with the New Statesman. Its bumper programme of in-person and online events from 19 to 23 April includes the NS Debate on the future of the monarchy – featuring Andrew Marr, Gary Younge and others – a live recording of the NS Podcast and a breakfast discussion with our editor-in-chief, Jason Cowley. To book tickets and find out more, visit the CLF website.
The SNP reached its electoral zenith under the First Minister but she leaves office humbled by Westminster and alienated from the public. Where did it all go wrong?
We started the Kyiv Independent as the horror of war loomed, writes Illia Ponomarenko – and now Joe Biden and Volodymyr Zelensky walk through the heart of the city.
After more than a decade of devastation inflicted by civil war, Syrians face a new struggle for survival. The BBC's Middle East correspondent Quentin Sommerville reports.
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