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Ideas Editor
@newstatesman.com
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Caroline Lucas
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Brilliant & insightful from
@anthonybarnett.bsky.social
as ever. Well worth your time, especially today đ
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Anthony Barnett
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Thanks to
@nickpaulharris.bsky.social
for this! now up at the
@newstatesman1913.bsky.social
www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
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Anthony Barnett: England, ethno-nationalism and what I told Andy Burnham
The author on the break-up of Britain and why Burnham must embrace constitutional reform
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2026/05/anthony-barnett-england-ethno-nationalism-and-what-i-told-andy-burnham
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My response to the Tommy Robinson march in
@newstatesman1913.bsky.social
www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
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Anthony Barnett: England, ethno-nationalism and what I told Andy Burnham
The author on the break-up of Britain and why Burnham must embrace constitutional reform
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2026/05/anthony-barnett-england-ethno-nationalism-and-what-i-told-andy-burnham
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I went to a St Georgeâs Day parade in Ramsgate for the
@newstatesman1913.bsky.social
, and wrote about the competing nationalisms in England, officialised and nativist
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
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St George's Day can't contain the new English nationalism
In Ramsgate, officialised folklore tried to bypass the political passions of the age
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2026/04/st-georges-day-cant-contain-the-new-english-nationalism
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Anoosh Chakelian
25 days ago
Beautifully written observations from Ramsgate's St George's Day parade by
@nickpaulharris.bsky.social
on "officialised folklore":
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St George's Day can't contain the new English nationalism
In Ramsgate, officialised folklore tried to bypass the political passions of the age
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2026/04/st-georges-day-cant-contain-the-new-english-nationalism
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I wrote about why Patrick Radden Keefe canât leave Britain alone, for the
@newstatesman1913.bsky.social
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Iâve written about Philip Larkin and the war in Iran, which I think are connected, for the
@newstatesman1913.bsky.social
www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Little England, Great Britain
The war in Iran has exposed a crippling English neurosis
https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2026/03/little-england-great-britain
about 2 months ago
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John Merrick
4 months ago
For the New Statesman I tracked the career of the corporate raiding Thatcherite turned populist tribune, James Goldsmith
www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2026/0...
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James Goldsmith, godfather of British populism
Unlike Nigel Farage or Rupert Lowe, Goldsmith told the truth
https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2026/01/james-goldsmith-godfather-of-british-populism
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This, by
@johnmerrick.bsky.social
, is an epic intellectual profile of James Goldsmith, the man who more than anyone else helped establish the character, temper and tone of British right-populism. Donât miss it â part of a fantastic NS Weekend
www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2026/0...
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James Goldsmith, godfather of British populism
Unlike Nigel Farage or Rupert Lowe, Goldsmith told the truth
https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2026/01/james-goldsmith-godfather-of-british-populism
4 months ago
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Oliver Basciano
4 months ago
This aside reminds me of the time I was left gaping in a conversation with a US art curator after she casually referred to herself as a public intellectual.
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âItâs dire stuff, the sort of thing you can imagine being made to screen in care homes.â I wrote about David Baddielâs terrible new cat programme:
www.newstatesman.com/culture/tv/2...
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Cats are better than dogs â and much better than David Baddiel
Cats are a rich subject for philosophers. They have been failed by this new programme
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/tv/2026/01/cats-are-better-than-dogs-and-much-better-than-david-baddiel
4 months ago
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Jeremy Benson
4 months ago
âThe glory of defeat in the FA Cupâ:
@nickpaulharris.bsky.social
tries to answer the inevitable question: why put yourself through this?
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The glory of defeat in the FA Cup
By the fifth goal, the Boreham Wood terraces were emptying. Why would anyone put themselves through this?
https://www.newstatesman.com/this-england/2026/01/the-glory-of-defeat-in-the-fa-cup
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In which I was unmasked as the ultimate footballing criminal â the plastic fan â with terrifying personal consequences
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4 months ago
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Morgan Jones
6 months ago
The two child cap news is big for MPs and more importantly for the country. But will the budget as a whole boost Starmer over the longer term amongst his discontented ranks? Personally I doubt it.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
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The Budget: our writersâ verdicts
Louise Haigh, Faiza Shaheen, James Meadway and others respond to the Chancellor
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2025/11/the-budget-our-writers-verdicts
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David Klemperer
6 months ago
Some astute budget commentary here from
@parth0.bsky.social
,
@ruthcurtice.bsky.social
,
@meadwaj.bsky.social
,
@louisehaighmp.bsky.social
, and
@morganj0nes.bsky.social
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
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The Budget: our writersâ verdicts
Louise Haigh, Faiza Shaheen, James Meadway and others respond to the Chancellor
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2025/11/the-budget-our-writers-verdicts
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Duncan Robinson
6 months ago
Lovely interview with Anthony Barnett
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
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Anthony Barnett: âThe Sixties were a catastrophic failureâ
The writer and campaigner on nationalism, the rise of the new right and how a fractured left can organise in response
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2025/11/anthony-barnett-the-sixties-were-a-catastrophic-failure
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Anoosh Chakelian
7 months ago
"There are authentic shivers of the 1970s, now buried deep in the British nervous system" Really enjoyed this on Fawlty Towers by
@nickpaulharris.bsky.social
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Britainâs Fawlty state of mind
Fifty years after it was first aired, Fawlty Towers now looks ahead of its time
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/tv/2025/10/britains-fawlty-state-of-mind
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âModern British comedy should thank Fawlty Towers the way poets thank spring: thatâs where it all beginsâ On Fawlty Towers and the invention of a national sense of humour, for the
@newstatesman1913.bsky.social
:
www.newstatesman.com/culture/tv/2...
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Britainâs Fawlty state of mind
Fifty years after it was first aired, Fawlty Towers now looks ahead of its time
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/tv/2025/10/britains-fawlty-state-of-mind
7 months ago
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This is quite something folks: John Gray, against and after postliberalism, today on the New Statesman:
www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/1...
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How to save British liberalism
The post-liberalism of the past decade has been revealed as a fantasy
https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/10/how-to-save-british-liberalism
7 months ago
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âThere is a darker though equally Thatcherite story to tell about Granthamâ Returning to Thatcher-land, a century after her birth, today at the New Statesman:
www.newstatesman.com/politics/con...
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Thatcher-land
One hundred years after it gave us Margaret Thatcher, what is left of the Grantham she knew?
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/conservatives/2025/10/thatcher-land
7 months ago
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Anthony Barnett
7 months ago
On this day the infant that would become Mrs Thatcher emerged to make her first demands upon our world, six months later...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
(thanks
@nickpaulharris.bsky.social
&
@willoyd.bsky.social
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What did Mrs Thatcher do to us?
Less a prime minister than a monarch, the Tory leaderâs real legacy was stasis
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2025/10/what-did-mrs-thatcher-do-to-us
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'Yet the heart of the Thatcher project was to renew what is still the cause of our countryâs downfall.'
@anthonybarnett.bsky.social
on the centenary of Margaret Thatcher, for the New Statesman:
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
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What did Mrs Thatcher do to us?
Less a prime minister than a monarch, the Tory leaderâs real legacy was stasis
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2025/10/what-did-mrs-thatcher-do-to-us
7 months ago
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'Yet the heart of the Thatcher project was to renew what is still the cause of our countryâs downfall.'
@anthonybarnett.bsky.social
on the centenary of Margaret Thatcher, for the New Statesman:
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
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What did Mrs Thatcher do to us?
Less a prime minister than a monarch, the Tory leaderâs real legacy was stasis
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2025/10/what-did-mrs-thatcher-do-to-us
7 months ago
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Will Dunn
7 months ago
Harris + Partridge = essential reading A point in favour of Late Partridge is the books, there is a line in Big Beacon that was so good a fellow train passenger asked if I was okay
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âCan a national joke survive when itâs also trying to become a national treasure?â On the late style of Alan Partridge, in this weekâs New Statesman:
www.newstatesman.com/culture/tv/2...
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Alan Partridgeâs late style
Can a national joke survive when itâs also trying to become a national treasure?
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/tv/2025/10/how-are-you-its-alan-partridge-review-late-style
7 months ago
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âStarmerism, as a political creed and a historical era, appears to have entered its ebb-tide without ever crashing onto the beach.â At and on the Reform conference, for the
@newstatesman.com
:
www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
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Nigel Farage really means it this time
At Reform Conference, his âpeopleâs armyâ formed a long, gloating parade.
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2025/09/nigel-farage-really-means-it-this-time
8 months ago
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Anoosh Chakelian
9 months ago
My piece on Douglas Carswell's journey from blue-sky thinking to the gutter:
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
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Douglas Carswell has sunk to the gutter
The former MP is far from the only Brit to be sent into a rage spiral by watching X.
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2025/09/douglas-carswell-descent-to-the-gutter
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John Merrick
9 months ago
For the
@newstatesman.com
i profiled Dominic Cummings â a case study in elite radicalisation
www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/0...
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The rage of Dominic Cummings
Britainâs rogue intellectual has predicted a civil war. Is he also cheerleading one?
https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/08/rage-of-dominic-cummings
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âThe tone is established with the seventh word of Kisinâs introduction: âmateâ.â Written about Tommy Robinsonâs appearance on Triggernometry:
www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
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The rebuilding of Tommy Robinson
The EDL founder has conquered the âalternativeâ media sphere.
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2025/08/the-rebuilding-of-tommy-robinson
9 months ago
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Written about YouTube, YouTube Man, and the tremendous cultural significance of an episode of Question Time from June 2007:
www.newstatesman.com/politics/med...
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Whoâs afraid of YouTube Man?
Screen culture isnât dystopia â itâs revelation.
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/media/2025/08/whos-afraid-of-youtube-man
9 months ago
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âWho the hell dug up this guy and invited him to pronounce, in his dunce cap of humiliation, on the future of British politicsâ? On Neil Hamilton, David Starkey, Thatcher and Thatcherism for this weekâs
@newstatesman.com
sketch:
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
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Mrs Thatcherâs bastards
In her centenary year, Maggieâs political and intellectual heirs still yearn for the smack of firm leadership.
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2025/07/mrs-thatchers-bastards
10 months ago
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I went to watch Thomas Skinnerâs political crossover event this week for the
@newstatesman.com
www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
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Thomas Skinnerâs full English
A Tory MP, a Brexiteer historian, a Reform clown and a reality-TV star walk into an auditoriumâŠ
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2025/06/thomas-skinners-full-english
11 months ago
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Morgan Jones
11 months ago
In Westminster, a Blue Labour staff network has been set up. I spoke to the earnest (mostly) young (mostly) men of the tendency about their politics, plans and why they really just want to have a big chat:
www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
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Meet the Blue Labour bros
Inside the ideological faction remaking the party and the government.
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2025/06/meet-the-blue-labour-bros
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âCassandra in tracksuit bottomsâ Greatly enjoyed watching the Dominic Cummings live show in Oxford last week, for the
@newstatesman.com
:
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
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Dominic Cummings: oracle of the new British berserk
The political visions of Westminsterâs most influential intellectual are wracked by elemental forces.
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2025/06/dominic-cummings-oracle-of-the-new-british-berserk
11 months ago
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'âSeriously, why donât you go back to the barrier and pay,â says the 43-year-old MP for Newark, newly Ozempicked into the form of an Inbetweener.'
@morganj0nes.bsky.social
on great form in this piece on Robert Jenrick's bizarre vigilante antics:
www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
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Robert Jenrick is embarrassing himself
His fare-dodger vigilante antics prove that he has become a mouthpiece of the Online Right.
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2025/05/robert-jenrick-is-embarrassing-himself
12 months ago
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"The kind of impotence that longs desperately for prepotence" I enjoyed, with some reservations, Harry Shukman's new book on the British far right, which I wrote about for the
@newstatesman.com
:
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
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Neo-Nazi safari
How close can any journalist get to the English far right?
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/book-of-the-day/2025/05/neo-nazi-safari-harry-shukman
12 months ago
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"Even he cannot combine book-keeper and sans-culotte forever." Went along to see Nigel Farage's latest political mutation today for the
@newstatesman.com
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12 months ago
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"This remains a Britain shaped by Osborne and Cameron: an economy growing on precarious jobs and asset prices, while the public realm rots." A first-rate cover story this week by
@willdunn.bsky.social
on George Osborne, the author of broken Britain:
www.newstatesman.com/cover-story/...
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Why George Osborne still runs Britain
Austerity was a radical economic experiment â but 15 years on, it has become the new orthodoxy.
https://www.newstatesman.com/cover-story/2025/05/why-george-osbourne-still-runs-britain
about 1 year ago
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âReading these novels is like watching a world-class chef working while drunk, skidding around the kitchen and capsizing saucepansâ I wrote about the highs and lows of Edward St Aubyn for this weekâs
@newstatesman.com
:
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
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Edward St Aubynâs comedy of horrors
The Patrick Melrose novels and his other works are clearly by the same writer â but produce wildly different results.
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/book-of-the-day/2025/05/edward-st-aubyns-comedy-of-horrors
about 1 year ago
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âThe impulses of Powellism â escapism, paranoia, nativism â are alive and well. Its political ambition is not.â In the wake of these local elections, read Oliver Eagletonâs first-class essay on Farage, Farageism and its ancestors:
www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/0...
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What is Nigel Farage thinking now?
Enoch Powell is his political hero. But Farage will never be his heir.
https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/05/what-is-nigel-farage-really-thinking
about 1 year ago
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âIn 2025, few seem to disagree that the machinery of government has grown dysfunctionalâ Delighted to have
@will-davies.bsky.social
return to the
@newstatesman.com
with this essay on how civil servants became everyoneâs worst enemy:
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
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Bonfire of the bureaucrats
How the civil service became the enemy.
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2025/04/bonfire-of-the-bureaucrats
about 1 year ago
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I wrote about 'the yookay', 'the Yookay', Ukania, and nicknames for national self-loathing for the
@newstatesman.com
:
www.newstatesman.com/world/uk/202...
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Anarchy in the âyookayâ
How the new right came to loathe Britain even more than the radical left.
https://www.newstatesman.com/world/uk/2025/04/anarchy-in-the-yookay
about 1 year ago
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Will Dunn
about 1 year ago
Honoured to appear in this week's issue with such a brilliant group of writers, including but not limited to
@finnmcredmond.bsky.social
,
@rmcunliffe.bsky.social
,
@georgeeaton.bsky.social
@hannahsbee.bsky.social
,
@nickpaulharris.bsky.social
,
@annaleszkie.bsky.social
and the great Andrew Marr
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âTo think about pubescent men you should think about sex, because thatâs what theyâre thinking about, all the time.â A very frank and very funny piece on what truly vexes young men by the
@newstatesman.com
âs George Monaghan:
www.newstatesman.com/politics/soc...
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Down with the âpositive male role modelâ
The landscape of contemporary masculinity â sex-obsessed and porn-addled â is not one Gareth Southgate can speak to.
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/society/2025/03/down-with-the-positive-male-role-model
about 1 year ago
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Very pleased to make my debut in
@thetimes.com
today with my review of Palantir CEO Alexander Karpâs premonition/prescription for the new Silicon Valley world order:
www.thetimes.com/article/d075...
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A tech oligarchâs manifesto for changing the world
In his new book The Technological Republic, the Palantir CEO Alexander Karp wants Silicon Valley to flex its political muscles
https://www.thetimes.com/article/d07552d2-f94d-4ee6-9be4-c675ede60de2?shareToken=2acdedaa004da8a471e1192f111a41d4
about 1 year ago
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'Millennial writers should take care not to let the soullessness of their world become that of their novels.' Wrote about Perfection, apparently the novel of the moment, for the
@newstatesman.com
:
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
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What was the millennial?
Vincenzo Latronicoâs Perfection finely itemizes his generationâs quirks and quiddities, from their tastes in furniture to their favourite drugs.
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/book-of-the-day/2025/03/what-was-the-millennial
about 1 year ago
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'What this cant term does do, in its trivial assimilation of radical change, is provide a kind of rationale, a moral framework even, for the historical catastrophe the political right is fomenting' Lee Siegel dissects the phrase on everyone's lips:
www.newstatesman.com/internationa...
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How the right weaponised the âvibe shiftâ
Whatâs brewing in America isnât a cultural turn â itâs a political catastrophe.
https://www.newstatesman.com/international-politics/2025/03/how-right-weaponised-vibe-shift-donald-trump
about 1 year ago
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'Starmerâs approach to government... has its own historical occasion and character... an attempt to develop a more effective form of crisis management for a nation in decline' Great to have Oliver Eagleton back in the
@newstatesman.com
today:
www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
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Keir Starmerâs hollow state
Labourâs planned welfare cuts are further evidence of a government running scared from two political foes: the City and Nigel Farage.
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2025/03/keir-starmers-hollow-state
about 1 year ago
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This week I interviewed a lord. William Waldegrave and I chatted about noblesse oblige, the ancien regime, and many other non-French concepts besides:
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
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William Waldegrave: âThe hereditary House of Lords element must endâ
The former Conservative cabinet minister â and life peer â on the ancien rĂ©gime.
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2025/02/william-waldegrave-interview-hereditary-house-of-lords-element-must-end
over 1 year ago
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over 1 year ago
In this weekâs
@newstatesman.com
ââ David Kynaston & Francis Green on private schools
@lilylynch.bsky.social
on Donald Trumpâs Florida project
@willdunn.bsky.social
on Bill Gates and Ren Zhengfei
@msrachelcooke.bsky.social
on the riddle of Thatcher
@chrispower.bsky.social
on the making of WG Sebald
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