“There are thousands of Andrew Tates out there”: The battle against online extremism
Counterextremism expert Milo Comerford on what Isis can teach us about the spread of radical misogyny.
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Lucy Easthope: “We are all disaster survivors now”
The leading expert on emergency planning and disaster recovery speaks about life after the pandemic.
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Peter Tatchell: “Politics is bad today, but nothing like Bermondsey”
The human rights activist on what the violence and homophobia of the 1983 by-election teaches today’s left.
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The new class war
Michael Lind on how the rise of the liberal “overclass” triggered Trumpism, Brexit and the return of the nation-state.
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The best New Statesman interviews of 2022
Conversations with the people at the centre of this year’s biggest stories.
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“It was a caprice of the algorithm”: Louis Theroux on becoming a Gen Z icon
An old documentary clip of the 52-year-old broadcaster rapping made him an unexpected TikTok sensation.
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“We are uniquely unprotected” from our own government: Adam Wagner on the Emergency State
The self-confessed activist lawyer believes Covid legislation showed how vulnerable human rights are in the UK.
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“Our online lives can never truly be our own”: Marie Le Conte on the generation that broke the internet
What does it mean to have grown up alongside an adolescent internet?
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The man who lives on rubbish
Dumpster-diving with Patrick O’Hare, the anthropologist fighting for our right to what people throw away.
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Édouard Louis: “I dream of a world without politics”
The French literary celebrity on shame, autobiography and why his family abandoned the far right.
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Marianne Eloise: “People dismiss your illness if you’re not bleeding on the floor”
The writer’s memoir uses her life as someone diagnosed as autistic to fuel intense dives into pop culture.
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“The left has let conservatives hijack freedom of speech”
Ruth Smeeth, the former Labour MP and head of Index on Censorship, on the dangers posed to expression by the…
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Jodi Dean: “Identity tells us nothing about politics”
The political theorist Jodi Dean wants to revive "comradeship" and class struggle as an antidote to divisive arguments about race…
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“There was a god complex”: Adam Wagner on why Downing Street broke its own Covid rules
The No 10 parties have “all seemed egregious” to the barrister who spent two years tracking the UK’s pandemic legislation.
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Will Kate Forbes be Scotland’s next leader?
At 31, the SNP finance minister is tipped to succeed Nicola Sturgeon. But will her social conservatism and evangelical Christianity…
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Ben Okri: climate change and oppression are born of the same “devouring instincts”
The award-winning writer on philosophy, mythology and the connections between racial injustice and ecological crisis.
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Bobby Gillespie: “The drugs were an integral part of the persona”
The Primal Scream frontman on his working-class upbringing, his first acid trip, and feeling “God-like” in the Nineties.
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Chih-Hsiu Shen: Why Taiwan should not have been excluded from Cop26
Taiwan’s deputy environment minister on why his country’s absence from the climate talks is bad for the planet, people and…
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“Why are people so angry?” Minouche Shafik on how the pandemic will change society
The director of LSE and former deputy director of the Bank of England calls for a post-Covid rethink of our…
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Radosław Sikorski: “Poland is on the path of Hungary and Russia”
The former Polish foreign minister on his country’s anti-EU turn under PiS, its ruling party.
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