At the O2, New Order prove their energy, purpose and Mancunian wit remains
The band may be older and without Peter Hook, but they are still adored by a loyal fan base of neurotic boy outsiders who have aged…
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Jason Cowley is editor-in-chief of the New Statesman.
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“The English believe their elites are a treacherous class”: James Hawes on his short history of England
The British author discusses the long shadow of the Norman Conquest – and how England never recovered from it.
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Patrick Hutchinson: “The death of George Floyd is one of the worst things I’ve ever seen”
In June, a photograph of Hutchinson carrying a white counter-protester to safety became a defining image of the Black…
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Editor’s Note: Boris Johnson’s elite cadre of fallen intellectuals, and Rabbi Sacks and the common good
Last week, in an unedifying spectacle, the clercs in and around the Court of Boris in Westminster were tearing…
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From a young age Boris Johnson longed to be World King – but the gods are mocking him
The Prime Minister blusters, equivocates and flounders. At a time of crisis, he has failed to learn what it…
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How the New Romantics transformed British culture
As Margaret Thatcher’s political revolution unfolded, a group of style-obsessed misfits brightened troubled times.
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Editor’s Note: Sensible Starmer and the unanswered question at the core of Labour
Starmer's cool, competent leadership has won him plaudits, but he remains troubled by one defining issue: what's the party…
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Neil Ferguson: The Covid modeller
Why Neil Ferguson of Imperial College London – the so-called Professor Lockdown – believes he has been vindicated and his…
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Editor’s Note: The great university funding crisis, sub-prime degrees and Boris Johnson’s “new normal”
A former government target to send 50 per cent of the population to university has led to “elite overproduction”, with…
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