
“I put 7,000 oysters in the skip”: the fishing industry fights for survival in polluted waters
With sewage spilled into waters around the UK hundreds of times a day, one shellfish producer says the industry is…
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New Thinking.
With sewage spilled into waters around the UK hundreds of times a day, one shellfish producer says the industry is…
ByGrowing up working-class and black taught me to doubt the official narrative. If I was always lied about, where was…
ByHow immigration is revitalising British churches.
ByCovid and the cost of living crisis have changed friendship. The main cast is still here, but there is no…
ByIn Wakefield, the state is confronting a problem it doesn’t know how to solve.
ByHow political expediency overrides logic and fairness in the UK’s chaotic finances.
ByAs the government and nurses enter “intensive” discussions over pay, a trade union negotiator reveals how talks unfold.
ByLess than a year after it was made, the government has broken its promise to address health inequalities.
ByIn Unfinished Business one of our finest cultural critics returns to fiction with a meditation on memory and national decline.
ByThe number of MPs who ask whether the Prime Minister is simply too inexperienced for these grim times is growing.
ByThe UK’s growth is forecast to fall behind every other major economy, including Russia.
ByIf Labour wins the next election it will face nationalist opponents in Scotland and England. Could the UK survive?
ByRather than indulging in post-imperial fantasies, Britain should learn from those mid-sized economies that are both richer and more equal…
ByGeorge Lattimer, a trade unionist in Victorian London writing about fair pay and the workhouse, would still have plenty of…
ByIn exclusive polling for the New Statesman by Redfield & Wilton Strategies, voters tell us what they think are high…
ByAs our public services edge closer to collapse, we need the humility to acknowledge that the country has lost its…
ByThe Tory zealots who have broken Britain should depart the stage and let others clean up the mess they have…
ByIt’s too expensive, nothing works and Brits don’t like foreigners anymore.
ByWould UK foreign policy be any different if Keir Starmer’s party won power?
ByIncidents like the death of Awaab Ishak are thankfully rare; the conditions that lead to them are all too common.
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