Why Britain is so poor – and will get poorer
The Iran war is the shock that could spark an economic firestorm
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Basildon Man wants reform
Can Nigel Farage win the homeland of Thatcherism?
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Labour’s search for a doctrine
The party is craving intellectual definition of the kind that Margaret Thatcher enjoyed
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James Goldsmith, godfather of British populism
Unlike Nigel Farage or Rupert Lowe, Goldsmith told the truth
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Why is Keir Starmer so unpopular?
Britain needs a leader willing to break with the legacy of Thatcherism
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The Tory conference vibe: sad, empty and haunted by Margaret Thatcher
Attendees are free to worship at the Thatcher cargo-cult
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Mrs Thatcher’s bastards
In her centenary year, Maggie’s political and intellectual heirs still yearn for the smack of firm leadership.
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Photo essay: The children of Thatcher’s Britain
Craig Easton’s images of one family capture the reality of state neglect.
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Arthur Scargill’s crumbling Camelot
Forty years ago, Margaret Thatcher defeated Britain’s miners. Now their union is dissolving – and their former leader is in…
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Britain is trapped in the Long Seventies
Thatcherism is a dead ideology – so why does it still confine our economic imagination?
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The prophet of the new right
In the life and work of Correlli Barnett, we can find all the most dangerous currents of contemporary conservatism.
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Stuart Weir: The editor who shaped a country
In 1988, the New Statesman’s campaigning leader devised Charter 88 – a call to arms that radically transformed Britain’s political…
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Capitalism and culture wars won’t save Tories or Republicans
On both the sides of the Atlantic, the right thinks it’s better to blame migrants than to protect incomes.
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We’re still living in Margaret Thatcher’s world
Ten years on from her death, the former prime minister’s free-market settlement continues to define Britain.
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Today’s Tories lack Nigel Lawson’s philosophical depth
In contrast to the late chancellor, modern Conservatives offer stale thinking rather than intellectual curiosity.
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How consultancy bleeds Britain dry
In The Big Con Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington reveal how management consultants promise to fix governments but end up…
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Letter of the week: Reasons to stay put
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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Decoding Adam Smith
A new history of The Wealth of Nations shows how the Scottish thinker’s legacy became an economic battleground.
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The uncertain future of the Tory party
If Rishi Sunak loses the next general election, who will inherit the battered kingdom of British conservatism?
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Rishi Sunak is caught between his ideals and the voters who put his party in power
The new prime minister believes in entrepreneurship and fiscal restraint, but inherits a coalition founded on high public spending.
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