Keynes’s biographer Robert Skidelsky: “I’ve become more and more persuaded by Marx”
The economist and peer on the cost of austerity and how “power structures” limit debate.
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Vote Leave head Matthew Elliott: “The Brexiteers won the battle but we could lose the war”
The influential campaigner says “the Leave side left the battlefield after the referendum” and fears a soft Brexit will result.
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Rabbi Jonathan Sacks: “The hate that begins with Jews never ends with Jews”
The former chief rabbi, who has died of cancer aged 72, spoke to the NS in 2018 on Labour’s anti-Semitism problem, morality and…
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The Chingford Corbynite: Faiza Shaheen on her mission to oust Iain Duncan Smith
“Taking out IDS – every time I say that it makes me smile,” quips the newly-selected Labour candidate.
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David Lammy: “The British political class have crawled into bed with the far right”
The Labour MP on how he remade himself as a backbench rebel on Grenfell, Windrush and Brexit.
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Mark Lilla: the nemesis of “identity liberalism”
The US intellectual defends his claim that left-wing identity politics is to blame for the rise of Donald Trump.
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Sex, death and ironic punctuation in the poetry of Hera Lindsay Bird
“Everything in my life I have to turn into a joke”
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US anarchist David Graeber’s crusade against the rise of “bullshit jobs”
In his new book, the LSE professor argues that universal basic income can end the era of “pointless work” and promote…
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