A new history of the Brighton bomb attack
This podcast series about the most brazen attack on British politics since the Gunpowder Plot is not a comfortable listen.
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Stuart Weir: The editor who shaped a country
In 1988, the New Statesman’s campaigning leader devised Charter 88 – a call to arms that radically transformed Britain’s political…
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The economic consequences of the miners’ strike
The NUM’s defeat in 1985 marked the end of the social democratic era – and the creation of the market…
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When the lights went out
Fifty years ago, Harold Wilson’s Labour took power in a snap election called to resolve the 1974 miners’ strike. But…
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Was it a good idea for Keir Starmer to praise Thatcher?
By aligning himself with the former Tory PM, the Labour leader focuses too heavily on the past.
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The myth of “Thatcherite” tax cuts
Thatcher’s Tory admirers such as Jake Berry should remember that she didn’t merely shrink the state: she re-shaped it.
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Myths of the miners’ strike
An oral history of the bitter Eighties dispute reveals a conflict that went far deeper than just government vs trade…
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How will Fleet Street vote at the next general election?
The next UK election could be the first at which the Murdoch papers do not back the winning party.
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We’re still living in Margaret Thatcher’s world
Ten years on from her death, the former prime minister’s free-market settlement continues to define Britain.
By21 May 1982: If Thatcher is right, then the price of ejecting the Argentines from the Falklands, however high, will…
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The Policy Ask with Alfie Stirling: “It’s all about trying to fail in the most successful way possible”
The economist on energy tariffs, reforming benefits and why drastic action is needed to rebuild society.
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The IRA’s blank assassin
The Brighton bomb killed five people but failed to hit its target, Margaret Thatcher.
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Letter of the week: Reasons to stay put
Write to [email protected] to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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The long and futile history of British anti-strike law
After centuries of crackdowns, UK workers still walk out – as they always have done.
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Anti-strike laws are un-Conservative
Collective bargaining and the right to withdraw labour are free-market liberties.
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Does the wave of strikes mark the end of the long 1990s?
The shadow cast by decades of depoliticised workplaces may finally be fading.
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What Chantal Mouffe gets wrong
The Belgian philosopher’s influence on today’s left is unquestionable, but the transformative potential of her ideas is held back by…
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The uncertain future of the Tory party
If Rishi Sunak loses the next general election, who will inherit the battered kingdom of British conservatism?
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Labour must not be trapped by the politics of national decline or revival
Rather than a politics of imaginary growth rates, we need one of real redistribution to those whose incomes are collapsing.
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Why Liz Truss can’t be a 21st-century Thatcher
It isn’t possible to launch a free-market revolution in an economy still defined by the last one.
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