How Thomas Piketty found politics
Ten years after publication, Capital in the Twenty-First Century remains a landmark study of inequality. Did it change anything?
ByTen years after publication, Capital in the Twenty-First Century remains a landmark study of inequality. Did it change anything?
ByKeir Starmer has pledged to boost social mobility, but the success of previous interventions is mixed.
ByThe tractor convoy has replaced the picket line as the symbol of working-class revolt.
BySaltburn isn’t the first British film to scorn the petite bourgeoisie.
ByThey no longer have a stranglehold on Oxbridge and would lose tax breaks under Labour. Can elite education survive?
ByThe shadow chancellor mixed fiscal discipline with class war. Both went down equally well in a changed Labour Party.
ByMore Brits feel “working class” than 40 years ago, according to a major study seen exclusively by the New Statesman.
ByThe left refuses to grapple with the realities of petty bourgeois life.
ByThe Marxist essayist and author on the real reason Black Lives Matter and other protest movements failed.
ByClass prejudice is the last weapon we have against tech titans.
ByAlso this week: an oak that will outlive us all and the problem with dogs.
ByAmerica’s white working class anthems tell stories the left want to forget.
ByThe sociologist Dan Evans on the “shopkeeper” class that progressives fail to understand.
ByOn both the left and the right, political radicalism has given way to cultish self-improvement.
ByTake the New Statesman quiz to find out whether you’re working class, middle class or upper class in the eyes…
ByGrowing up as a fish out of water.
ByWrite to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
ByPolling shows both middle and working-class people want reform – but they don’t necessarily believe Labour can deliver it.
ByThe wealthy, right-wing politicians still hold all the power – not those that work in bourgeois institutions with liberal-left views.
ByHighly paid people tend to see themselves as “normal” on the income scale – and “worse off” than their social…
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