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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Molly-Mae proves the absurdity of “girlboss” feminism
It’s easy to say you can achieve whatever you want – if you’re rich, white and conventionally beautiful.
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How Apple became the world’s first $3trn company
The tech company’s market value has more than doubled since January 2020.
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Ann Pettifor on why the rich must be first to pay for the climate crisis
The economist and author of the Green New Deal talks money, men and malpractice.
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Was Donald Trump’s ‘war on coal’ real, or just the market at work?
To make sense of a destabilising planet we must look to the ideas of Antonio Gramsci.
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Succession: What it’s like to be on the inside during a corporate crisis
Corporate insiders tell the New Statesman how they handle a business breakdown.
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Cop26 was a failure but the shows of solidarity around Glasgow are cause for hope
The future of humanity depends on forging forms of solidarity that override geopolitical allegiance and national self-interest.
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Emily Ratajkowski interview: “I used to think feminism was women hustling”
The model and author of My Body on beauty, misogyny and how her understanding of feminism has evolved.
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Is a “green state” the answer to the climate crisis?
Why a Good State is not enough to compensate for Bad Capitalists: a response to Adam Tooze and Andreas Malm.
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In My Body, Emily Ratajkowski asks difficult questions about beauty and capitalism. Does she have any answers?
The supermodel sets herself against the patriarchal norms that crush women, but fails to see how she upholds them.
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It’s the tech giants, not socialist politicians, who are coming for our liberty
As algorithms take over our lives, the issue of Big Tech censorship can no longer be dismissed as a fringe…
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The goodness business: how woke capitalism turned virtue into profit
No corporation is without its ideals in the new “emoticonomy”. But what do companies want with their new moral authority?
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The ghosts of Mark Fisher
How the cultural critic, four years after his death, became one of the most influential thinkers and writers of our…
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Who owns the world?
The Queen, the family of the actress Nicole Kidman, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and the media tyco
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