This is an age of stagnation, and young people are stuck in perpetual adolescence
We live in a gerontocracy, where the Conservatives pursue socialism for the old and capitalism for the young.
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Back in Time for Birmingham tells the story of immigration in postwar Britain
For all its banalities, the BBC’s warm-hearted recreation of the lives of previous generations of British Asians is welcome, even…
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This England: Cat on an oil rig roof
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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Patriotism is an emotional language I’m not fluent in but I loved my Jubilee street party
It is true that the festivities cost millions, but the celebrations were a moving way to unify a diverse, multicultural…
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Is a united Ireland now inevitable?
As Sinn Féin surges with voters, Irish reunification seems closer than ever. But the real debate over what the new…
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Identity in crisis, understanding England, and the joy of a cherry tree in spring
The question of what England is, and what part it can play in the events unfolding, remains as unresolved as…
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As a unified sense of British nationhood fades, we must ask: what is England?
As the UK fragments, we are experiencing a reawakening of English national consciousness.
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Why do UK water companies pump sewage into the sea?
Brexit and ageing infrastructure are two reasons the UK has sewage floating around its shores.
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Did Covid-19 push public opinion in a more left-wing direction?
The landmark British Social Attitudes survey reveals a public more aware of inequality and sympathetic to welfare. But pollster John…
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The EU climate chief Frans Timmermans: “The planet is probably going to be OK. But we won’t”
The EU Commission vice-president on why the UK’s climate ambition needs to be matched by “very concrete policies”.
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The Conservatives’ net-zero strategy would doom the planet to climate chaos
Only public ownership and dramatic state investment can decarbonise the economy at the speed required.
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Why the left must abandon the myth of British decline
The declinist theories championed by Perry Anderson blame the problems of the present on an imagined past.
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Why Thérèse Coffey is wrong about Universal Credit claimants and work
High benefit withdrawal rates mean that claimants cannot simply compensate for cuts by finding two more hours of work a…
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How Paul Sandby painted Britain as he saw it
The 18th-century artist revealed the possibilities of both watercolour and the British landscape.
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Decoding Global Britain’s post-Brexit foreign policy
Jeremy Cliffe and Emily Tamkin host the weekly global affairs podcast World Review from the New Statesman.
The disputed legacy of There’s Something About Miriam: how the “trans trick” lives on
Did the offensive TV dating show with a “twist” sow the seeds for how trans people are depicted today?
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Who owns Britain?
There was a time, in the days of Lloyd George and then Attlee, when land reform was a convulsive policy.…
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