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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Rishi Sunak’s green belt pandering shows he is no Margaret Thatcher
Unlike the Iron Lady, Conservative politicians of today aren’t ready to ask the hard questions about the UK’s structural problems.
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Thatchermania won’t save the Conservative Party
It’s not just Liz Truss – Tory women will be compared to Margaret Thatcher whether they like it or not.
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Thatcherism vs Reaganomics
The fiscally conservative Rishi Sunak is borrowing from Margaret Thatcher while the tax-cutting Liz Truss channels Ronald Reagan.
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The cruelties of self-help culture
The belief that hard work leads to success and personal fulfilment is a dangerous fantasy.
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Misunderstanding Margaret Thatcher
How Margaret Thatcher consolidated her power – not thanks to the Falklands War, but because of an opposition that underestimated…
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Why Antonio Gramsci is the Marxist thinker for our times
The late Italian philosopher's concept of hegemony was startlingly prescient.
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