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The Dunkirk Delusion Lyndsey Stonebridge Jess Phillips on her The Dunkirk delusion on the meaning and family lockdown David Reynolds Why the myths of 1940 value of work in the Amelia Tait on the are still haunting Britain 80 years later age of coronavirus art of wasting time Enlightened thinking in dark times 22-28 May 2020/£4.75 THE GREAT MOVING LEFT SHOW 21 How the pandemic is transforming our politics By Andrew Marr 9 771364 743179 2020+21 The great moving left show.v2 TG coverlines.indd 1 19/05/2020 19:25 20-19_ads.indd 5 05/05/2020 14:21:38 Established 1913 The big left turn n 2008, as the financial crisis afflicted the West, many Under David Cameron and George Osborne in 2008, the progressive politicians, notably Ed Miliband, spoke of a Conservatives opposed the fiscal stimulus introduced by the “social democratic moment”. Unprecedented state in- Labour government, before ushering in an “age of auster- terventions, such as the bank bailouts, prompted talk of ity”. By contrast, the present Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, has a new economic settlement. It did not amount to much. provided economic support of £330bn and, through the Job Indeed, as we warned at the time, such hopes were al- Retention Scheme, is paying the wages of 7.5 million people Iways naive. The centre left was complicit in the deregulation (a quarter of the private-sector workforce). and financialisation that precipitated the crash. In Europe, it The crisis has accelerated the Conservatives’ pre-existing championed the single currency and the creation of a mone- retreat from austerity economics. Under Boris Johnson, the tary union without a complementary fiscal union. When the party had already committed to higher NHS spending and to system inevitably faltered, social democrats could not cred- borrowing for investment (embracing a version of Labour’s ibly pose as its saviours. Instead it was the right that thrived 2017 fiscal rules). Though the right has been wedded to free- by harnessing anxiety over immigration and by reframing a market economics since the private sector crisis as one of public debt. neoliberal turn of the 1980s, A decade later, as the state once more intervenes to under- big government conserva- write the economy, commentators are again asking whether tism was never previously a this could be a progressive moment. “It’s a wonderful time to contradiction in terms. be a social democrat,” the Dutch historian and author Rutger For this reason, among Bregman says on page 16. And in this week’s cover story on others, the left should re- page 22, Andrew Marr asks whether the Covid-19 crisis could sist the temptation to claim mark “the start of a big left turn”. ideological victory. Rather The essay’s title – “The Great Moving Left Show” – is an al- than resolving the contra- lusion to the late cultural theorist Stuart Hall’s January 1979 diction between Mr John- essay “The Great Moving Right Show”. At a time when many son’s national conservatism on the left dismissed Thatcherism as an aberration, he un- and his embrace of a free- derstood that the right was engaged in a potent mission not wheeling “Global Britain”, just to win electoral power but to redefine “common sense”. the pandemic has deepened it. Once the crisis has passed, the There is no equivalent movement on the left or the right temptation among many on the right will be to retreat to the today to the Hayekian New Right, but we can ask whether familiar territory of tax cuts, deregulation, limited govern- the crisis, like the collapse of the Keynesian consensus in the ment and privatisation in pursuit of growth at any cost. 1970s, represents a historical turning point. The former French president Charles de Gaulle once de- In 1996, at the height of liberal triumphalism, Bill clared that it was his political mission to reconcile the left to Clinton declared that the “era of big government is over”. the state (or authority) and the right to the nation (or democ- His message was echoed by social democratic parties across racy). In the wake of the 2008 crash, even as living standards the West. Yet in Britain, confronted by the threat of the fell, the right marginalised the left by claiming the mantle of largest recession since 1709, the state has returned to the nationhood. By intensifying focus on questions of borders centre of economic life. Like the 1918 Spanish flu, which and citizenship, the Covid-19 crisis could provide a similar spurred the creation of the egalitarian Swedish welfare opening. If we are witnessing the beginnings of a new con- state, the Covid-19 pandemic is remaking the case for social sensus, the left must not merely hail the return of the protec- SÉBASTIEN THIBAULT security as a form of collective insurance. tive state – it must respond to the return of the nation. l 22-28 MAY 2020 | NEW STATESMAN | 3 2020+21 003 Leader.indd 3 19/05/2020 19:51:47 Editor-in-chief Contents Jason Cowley Deputy Editor Free thinking since 1913 Tom Gatti International Editor Jeremy Cliffe Managing Editor Will Dunn Political Editor Stephen Bush US Editor Emily Tamkin Creative Editor Gerry Brakus Associate Editor Michael Prodger Senior Online Editor George Eaton Features Editor Kate Mossman Culture Editor Anna Leszkiewicz Special Projects Editor Alona Ferber Britain Editor Turning left: Andrew Marr on post-pandemic politics 22 The quiet radical: Ailbhe Rea meets Anneliese Dodds 28 Anoosh Chakelian Commissioning Editor Gavin Jacobson Culture Assistant Up Front Observations The Critics: Books Ellen Peirson-Hagger Special Correspondents 3 Leader 12 In the Picture 42 Leo Robson looks at how Harry Lambert 10 Correspondence 13 Comment: some of the greatest writers Sophie McBain Political Correspondents Lyndsey Stonebridge have used plagues as material Patrick Maguire on Hannah Arendt and the for literature Ailbhe Rea Columns meaning of work in the time 46 Colin Kidd on the economic Head of Production of Covid-19 consequences of Scottish Peter Williams 7 Jason Cowley on tragedy at an 14 Commons Confidential: independence, as explained Chief Sub-Editor Kevin Maguire Pippa Bailey Essex care home in John Lloyd’s Should Auld Senior Sub-Editor 9 Dr Phil Whitaker on what the The pick of the best gossip Acquaintance Be Forgot Indra Warnes return to school debate teaches from Westminster 48 Johanna Thomas-Corr is Designer us about evidence 16 Encounter: George Eaton intrigued by Rodham, Curtis Emily Black 19 Jess Phillips writes this talks to the Dutch historian Sittenfeld’s counterfactual novel Social Media Editor week’s Diary Rutger Bregman about Hillary Clinton Eleanor Peake Digital Culture Writer 20 Stephen Bush on why 17 First Thoughts: Peter Wilby 50 Ryan Gilbey examines Sarah Manavis Conservatives fear Keir Starmer on job cuts in the media Woody Allen’s troubling Editorial Assistant 21 Helen Thompson on why she 18 Trends: Oscar Williams autobiography Apropos Emily Bootle loves football but has not missed asks what the NHS’s deal with of Nothing the Premier League Palantir means for the future of Contributing Writers 39 Amelia Tait John Bew on learning to public health Chris Deerin appreciate being unproductive Matthew Engel 40 Jonathan Liew on the fan Martin Fletcher response to Saudi Arabia’s Articles John Gray takeover of Newcastle United Helen Lewis 22 Andrew Marr on how the Shiraz Maher Paul Mason coronavirus crisis could alter Adrian Pabst Britain’s political course David Reynolds 28 Ailbhe Rea meets Labour’s Leo Robson new shadow chancellor Brendan Simms Anneliese Dodds Ed Smith Amelia Tait 32 David Reynolds on the Johanna Thomas-Corr meaning of Dunkirk, 80 years on Erica Wagner Rowan Williams New Statesman Vol 149, No 5521 ISSN Please note that all submissions to the letters page, our competitions and reader offers are accepted solely subject to our terms and conditions: details available on 1364-7431 USPS 382260 request or on our website. 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