No, IDS, welfare isn’t a path to wealth. Quite the opposite, in fact
Far from being a lifestyle choice, welfare is all too often a struggle for survival.
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How can Labour break the Osborne supremacy?
The Conservative hegemony is deeply embedded - but it can be broken, says Ken Spours.
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Dan Jarvis is the potential Labour leader the Tories fear most
"We'd never be able to accuse him of being weak," one minister said of the former paratrooper.
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The NS Podcast #118: Cultural Appropriation
The New Statesman podcast.
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Meet Momentum: the next step in the transformation of our politics
The leadership election was just the start - this is the next step.
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Why Sisters Uncut demonstrated at the Suffragette premiere
The anti-cuts group set off smoke bombs and jumped onto the carpet to disrupt the event.
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I’m a Europhile, but I’m thinking about voting for the UK to leave the European Union
How much better would our politics be if this question was settled, once and for all?
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No, having a smartphone doesn’t mean you’re not poor
If I could, I'd give every one of the clients at our food bank a smartphone, says Liza Cucco.
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