Louise Perry @Louise_m_perry · 17 Jun 2026
Reporting from Makerfield for this week’s New Statesman cover. After a few days I realised that the big ticket by-election was a glossy distraction from the increasing strangeness of post-industrial English life. When so many people are poor and feeling poorer, when nothing ever
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