Gary Younge: how racism shaped my critical eye
Growing up working-class and black taught me to doubt the official narrative. If I was always lied about, where was…
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Is the future of Christianity African?
How immigration is revitalising British churches.
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The death of the social butterfly
Covid and the cost of living crisis have changed friendship. The main cast is still here, but there is no…
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Why Britain’s blasphemy controversies are here to stay
In Wakefield, the state is confronting a problem it doesn’t know how to solve.
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Britain’s broken tax system
How political expediency overrides logic and fairness in the UK’s chaotic finances.
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How to win a strike negotiation
As the government and nurses enter “intensive” discussions over pay, a trade union negotiator reveals how talks unfold.
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The health crisis nobody is talking about
Less than a year after it was made, the government has broken its promise to address health inequalities.
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Michael Bracewell’s anatomy of English nostalgia
In Unfinished Business one of our finest cultural critics returns to fiction with a meditation on memory and national decline.
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Conservatives are losing confidence in Rishi Sunak
The number of MPs who ask whether the Prime Minister is simply too inexperienced for these grim times is growing.
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Why the IMF sees Britain as the sick man of the global economy
The UK’s growth is forecast to fall behind every other major economy, including Russia.
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The twilight of the British Union
If Labour wins the next election it will face nationalist opponents in Scotland and England. Could the UK survive?
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Leader: How to reverse British decline
Rather than indulging in post-imperial fantasies, Britain should learn from those mid-sized economies that are both richer and more equal…
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In my great-great-grandfather’s poetry, I glimpse the Britain I report on today
George Lattimer, a trade unionist in Victorian London writing about fair pay and the workhouse, would still have plenty of…
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Does your salary mean you’re rich? What makes you upper, middle or working class? We asked the British public
In exclusive polling for the New Statesman by Redfield & Wilton Strategies, voters tell us what they think are high…
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Britain must finally shed its illusions of greatness
As our public services edge closer to collapse, we need the humility to acknowledge that the country has lost its…
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When will Boris Johnson and his gang finally leave us in peace?
The Tory zealots who have broken Britain should depart the stage and let others clean up the mess they have…
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Cool Britannia, once the envy of the world, is no more
It’s too expensive, nothing works and Brits don’t like foreigners anymore.
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“You don’t trash your neighbours”: David Lammy on global Britain under Labour
Would UK foreign policy be any different if Keir Starmer’s party won power?
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A child has died from Britain’s failed housing system. Will the government finally act?
Incidents like the death of Awaab Ishak are thankfully rare; the conditions that lead to them are all too common.
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How Peter Kay changed British comedy
The beloved Bolton comic, now going on tour for the first time in over a decade, became a national phenomenon…
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