After Kamala Harris’s defeat, progressives must regain the people’s trust
Social democracy is increasingly looking weak and timid, even cowardly.
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Longing for Labour, once again
Also this week: meditations on love and loss, and the bliss of the Berlin Philarmonic.
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The Twelve Woes of Labour
Your daily dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Letter of the week: Doors of perception
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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HR Britain: how human resources captured the nation
Is HR the force holding back our economy?
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Bill Gates: the Optimist’s Dilemma
The philanthropist has been fighting global disease for 25 years. He believes the world is at a dangerous tipping point.
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The contradictions of Team Trump
How Donald Trump will keep his coalition of support together amid his cabinet’s competing ideologies.
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Musa al-Gharbi’s dire diagnosis for the woke elite
The sociologist on Ivy League hypocrisy, the four “great awokenings”, and what Kamala Harris got wrong.
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Mackenzie Crook Q&A: “I’ve often been happy but happiest is yet to come”
The actor on Nirvana, people who hate dogs, and the magic of Dickens.
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Subscriber of the week: Arthur Harvey
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This England: Light-ening the mood
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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Ireland’s liberal centre conceals something darker
Who will represent the country’s fragmented edges?
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I started pottery. I knew I’d be rubbish
But that was the whole point.
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A surprise cash infusion has the feel of a religious experience
I am relieved of the incessant, humiliating nag of being broke for the rest of the month.
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Why Trump’s Bitcoin boom is a fake
I have no idea what will happen to cryptocurrencies – and neither does anyone else.
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In praise of herd mentality
The best crowds are joyful expressions of democracy and belonging. So why do we fear them so much?
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The spectre of Winston Churchill
The great wartime leader continues to haunt British politics and identity.
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Assisted dying advocates have much to learn from the legalisation of abortion
The two proposals are taking a strikingly similar route through parliament.
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The new special relationship
Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump may together upend what remains of the current global order.
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Inside Gary Lineker’s Match of the Day exit
Also this week: keeping shrimp and a new role for Hugh Grant.
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