Peter Tatchell: “Politics is bad today, but nothing like Bermondsey”
The human rights activist on what the violence and homophobia of the 1983 by-election teaches today’s left.
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The new class war
Michael Lind on how the rise of the liberal “overclass” triggered Trumpism, Brexit and the return of the nation-state.
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The best New Statesman interviews of 2022
Conversations with the people at the centre of this year’s biggest stories.
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“It was a caprice of the algorithm”: Louis Theroux on becoming a Gen Z icon
An old documentary clip of the 52-year-old broadcaster rapping made him an unexpected TikTok sensation.
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“We are uniquely unprotected” from our own government: Adam Wagner on the Emergency State
The self-confessed activist lawyer believes Covid legislation showed how vulnerable human rights are in the UK.
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“Our online lives can never truly be our own”: Marie Le Conte on the generation that broke the internet
What does it mean to have grown up alongside an adolescent internet?
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The man who lives on rubbish
Dumpster-diving with Patrick O’Hare, the anthropologist fighting for our right to what people throw away.
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Édouard Louis: “I dream of a world without politics”
The French literary celebrity on shame, autobiography and why his family abandoned the far right.
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