A new history of the Brighton bomb attack
This podcast series about the most brazen attack on British politics since the Gunpowder Plot is not a comfortable listen.
ByNew Times,
New Thinking.
This podcast series about the most brazen attack on British politics since the Gunpowder Plot is not a comfortable listen.
ByIn 1988, the New Statesman’s campaigning leader devised Charter 88 – a call to arms that radically transformed Britain’s political…
ByThe NUM’s defeat in 1985 marked the end of the social democratic era – and the creation of the market…
ByFifty years ago, Harold Wilson’s Labour took power in a snap election called to resolve the 1974 miners’ strike. But…
ByBy aligning himself with the former Tory PM, the Labour leader focuses too heavily on the past.
ByThatcher’s Tory admirers such as Jake Berry should remember that she didn’t merely shrink the state: she re-shaped it.
ByAn oral history of the bitter Eighties dispute reveals a conflict that went far deeper than just government vs trade…
ByThe next UK election could be the first at which the Murdoch papers do not back the winning party.
ByTen years on from her death, the former prime minister’s free-market settlement continues to define Britain.
By21 May 1982: If Thatcher is right, then the price of ejecting the Argentines from the Falklands, however high, will…
ByThe economist on energy tariffs, reforming benefits and why drastic action is needed to rebuild society.
ByThe Brighton bomb killed five people but failed to hit its target, Margaret Thatcher.
ByWrite to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
ByCollective bargaining and the right to withdraw labour are free-market liberties.
ByAfter centuries of crackdowns, UK workers still walk out – as they always have done.
ByThe shadow cast by decades of depoliticised workplaces may finally be fading.
ByThe Belgian philosopher’s influence on today’s left is unquestionable, but the transformative potential of her ideas is held back by…
ByIf Rishi Sunak loses the next general election, who will inherit the battered kingdom of British conservatism?
ByRather than a politics of imaginary growth rates, we need one of real redistribution to those whose incomes are collapsing.
ByIt isn’t possible to launch a free-market revolution in an economy still defined by the last one.
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