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Lisa Nandy: “While rentier capitalism has been allowed to run riot, a quiet patriotism has been at work in every community”
The text of the shadow levelling up secretary's Orwell Memorial Lecture.
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Do capitalism and democracy go together?
Capitalists' acquiescence to electoral democracy follows from their distinctive political interests, and is strictly conditional.
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Death by PowerPoint: the global influence of McKinsey
A new book connects the consultancy firm to a series of social and economic crises. But how culpable is a…
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The Mark Fisher generation
In 2009 Capitalist Realism sought to upend the status quo. As political paralysis returns, its message is as urgent as…
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Liz Truss is a morbid symptom of British capitalism’s long crisis
The Prime Minister unwittingly posed a question that should haunt her party: what is the point of capitalism if it…
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“Justice cannot be the lodestar of a new society”
The American sociologist Dylan Riley on fascism, thinking as therapy and the crisis of capitalist democracy.
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Dieter Helm: “Capitalism works best with a strong state”
The professor of economic policy at Oxford University discusses Trussonomics and system failure in the UK.
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The energy crisis is a bonfire of free-market vanities
The whole of European capitalism is facing the spectre of price controls, windfall taxes and even nationalisation.
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What is to be done about money?
A new economic history examines how and why money has always been inextricably linked to politics and power.
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In the sleek, luxurious world of athleisure, aspiration hides something much darker
Brands that sanitise their image with New Age jargon have been getting away with hypocrisy for too long.
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Adrienne Buller: “Green capitalism is its own form of denial”
The Canadian author discusses her new book The Value of a Whale and why markets won’t save the world.
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Boris Johnson’s resignation is a problem for Keir Starmer
His replacement will be a safer, more directionless, but less scandal-prone pair of hands – undoing Labour’s entire electoral strategy.
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Corporate culture is ruining live music
The rise of tiered ticketing, VIP packages and cordoned-off areas is destroying concerts. Just look at the Rolling Stones.
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Tony Blair’s technophilia is a dead end for the left
His deterministic embrace of technology leaves many voters out in the cold.
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From the NS archive: Up the plank
23 March 1973: On J Paul Getty, America’s richest buccaneer.
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Disney proves woke capitalism isn’t as easy as it used to be
You know things are bad when even Disney isn’t a refuge from the culture wars.
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“What’s good for the country is good for us”: Britain’s most powerful investor on inclusive capitalism
As the CEO of Legal & General, Nigel Wilson controls huge investments in British housing, infrastructure and health.
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Why the SNP’s economic strategy offers continuity not transformation
The muddled, contradictory shopping list is a consequence of the deep-rooted defensiveness of Scotland’s political economy.
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The Met’s toxic subcultures are no accident
Unless policing is publicly accountable, it will remain as racist and misogynistic as it was with the officers in Charing…
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