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Weaving together seemingly disparate stories from across the country, New Statesman editor Jason Cowley investigates how England has changed so much over the first two decades of the twenty-first century.

In so doing he not only develops a clear analysis of how and why the country has become so divided, but also paints a moving picture about what it means to be human in an age of globalisation. Most importantly, he shows how the pandemic revealed the best of who we are and why there is genuine hope for the future in an era of heightened English national self-consciousness.

Meet our speaker and chair

Jason Cowley is editor-in-chief of the New Statesman. He has won numerous industry awards and has been widely accredited with revitalising the New Statesman over the course of his editorship. He was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Journalism in 2019.

Robin Archer is the Director of the postgraduate programme in political sociology and the Director of the Ralph Miliband Programme at LSE.

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The Ralph Miliband Programme (@rmilibandlse) is one of LSE's most prestigious lecture series and seeks to advance Ralph Miliband's spirit of free social inquiry.

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