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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We shouldn’t demonise Winston Churchill – or deify him
The point of history is to see people and situations in the round rather than to succumb to satisfying myths.
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Rishi Sunak’s vision for “Global Britain” is empty
What should we make of a Brexiteer who studied stateside and tried to avoid Cop27?
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How the Ford Fiesta defined the British economy
Ford has discontinued what was for many years Britain’s most popular car.
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Liz Truss is a morbid symptom of British capitalism’s long crisis
The Prime Minister unwittingly posed a question that should haunt her party: what is the point of capitalism if it…
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It’s time to banish Britain’s Celtic ghosts
The Anglo-Celt divide continues to shape the political fate of the British Isles – yet it is a historical mirage.
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Britain braces itself for the devastation of austerity 2.0
Britons on low incomes dread the Liz Truss government’s “reverse Robin Hood” plan, which prioritises bankers over benefit claimants.
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The Conservatives’ Great Leap Forward
Liz Truss and her team understand the British economy’s weaknesses but their utopian free-market solutions are undermining the Bank of…
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“People have nowhere to turn”: Britain’s first “warm banks” open their doors
Charities and councils offer refuge for people who cannot afford heating this winter.
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When will we be able to hope again?
Anyone in their early thirties has known bust without boom for their entire adult life.
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Decoding the UK’s economic crisis
What do Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng really want? To maintain Britain’s standing as a rentier's paradise – and they…
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How public support for tax and spend has surged
Fifty two per cent of voters support higher taxes and public spending, and just 6 per cent want them cut.
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Queen Elizabeth made us feel less embarrassed about Britishness and empire
Without the Queen, we are scrambling to find a national identity we can be proud of.
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The Queen’s death leaves a nation unsure of its place in the world
This is the second act of a national realignment that began with the UK’s departure from the EU.
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