We’re all working class now
More Brits feel “working class” than 40 years ago, according to a major study seen exclusively by the New Statesman.
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Deano is Britain’s most misunderstood man
The left refuses to grapple with the realities of petty bourgeois life.
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Freddie deBoer: elite identity politics is destroying the left
The Marxist essayist and author on the real reason Black Lives Matter and other protest movements failed.
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Only snobbery can stop Elon Musk
Class prejudice is the last weapon we have against tech titans.
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Why the rich just keep getting richer
Also this week: an oak that will outlive us all and the problem with dogs.
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Democrats are losing the country music culture war
America’s white working class anthems tell stories the left want to forget.
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How the left forgot the petty bourgeoisie
The sociologist Dan Evans on the “shopkeeper” class that progressives fail to understand.
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America is nothing more than a self-help society
On both the left and the right, political radicalism has given way to cultish self-improvement.
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QUIZ: Which social class are you?
Take the New Statesman quiz to find out whether you’re working class, middle class or upper class in the eyes…
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How not to drown
Growing up as a fish out of water.
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Letter of the week: Uber-class conflict
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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Voters don’t just feel Britain is broken – they feel they’re broken too
Polling shows both middle and working-class people want reform – but they don’t necessarily believe Labour can deliver it.
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The “new elite” isn’t the elite – it isn’t even new
The wealthy, right-wing politicians still hold all the power – not those that work in bourgeois institutions with liberal-left views.
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Sixty per cent of Brits earning £80,000-£100,000 say they’re “about average”
Highly paid people tend to see themselves as “normal” on the income scale – and “worse off” than their social…
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Being middle class now means downsizing your dreams
Only the wealthy have house deposits or grandparents who can give childcare.
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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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Steve Platt’s Notebook: Memories of class war, the broken housing system, and struggles with mental health
Thirty years ago I was thrust into the limelight by John Major’s libel action against me; it was brutal, but…
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Why the Daily Mail’s defence of private schools doesn’t add up
Removing charitable status from private schools won’t lose Labour money – or voters.
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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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From the NS archive: A new look at Britain
23 September 1957: How Labour could make a wealthier society a better society too.
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