The original woke capitalists
Innocent is a purveyor of friendliness, social concern and smoothies. Are its ethics for real?
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How do you purge an elite?
Patrick Deneen’s hostility to liberalism has made him a leading intellectual of the “New Right”. But his aristocratic populism is…
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Would there still have been global warming under socialism?
Market failure certainly delays aggressive climate action, but even had the whole world in the 20th century been socialist, the…
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How Saudi Arabia is buying the world
As the kingdom’s model of capitalism without democracy thrives, the prospect of a Saudi century has consequences for us all.
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Why do you love capitalism?
Johan Norberg’s The Capitalist Manifesto is a feeble defence of a system under attack.
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The left must embrace law and order
In France and elsewhere, everyday insecurity hurts the poor much more than the rich.
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How do you destroy a brand?
A High Court case involving Virgin is testing the nebulous concept of “brand value” that underpins so much business.
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Calling time on the neoliberalism debate
The rise of industrial policy does not signal the end of the old regime.
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There is no chance the government will regulate AI
This government is planning light-touch regulation of a technology our politicians do not understand.
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Making democracy safe from capitalism
Market radicals have established economic spaces free of democratic constraint. What would a politics of the zone look like if…
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The problem with Peter Frankopan’s theory of history
The Earth Transformed seeks to tell the story of climate change without confronting global capitalism. The result is a book…
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Why wealth trumps whiteness
It’s high time the money question took centre stage in the debate about racial equality.
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The politics of free time
Exclusive to the New Statesman, a new 40-year analysis of time use diaries reveals why Britons feel burnt out.
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Right or left? How we solve the cost-of-living crisis
Crippling inflation and the living standards squeeze are forcing politics and policy towards a crossroads.
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The left can win and forge a new settlement – but only if it repairs the trust we have lost
Research reveals a strong public appetite for progressive ideas. But we cannot flourish in an environment of mutual intolerance.
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Meghan Markle is the perfect metaphor for wellness
A focus on smoothies and yoga means never questioning the societal forces that cause bad health, or that allow you…
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The Deliveroo dystopia: how London dehumanised a collapsed courier
Riders like Mohamed are invisible to us until something goes wrong.
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The big consultancy con, with Mariana Mazzucato
The economist and author on how the consultancy industry has “infantilised” governments
Mariana Mazzucato: “Consultancies depend on weak governments”
The economist and author of The Big Con reflects on why capitalism is broken.
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“Crabs taught me to be anti-capitalist”: how a Margate museum is on a mission to change politics
What do capitalism, colonialism and the climate crisis have to do with crustaceans?
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