Oli Dugmore
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- 8
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- Sep 30, 2026
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- Jul 4, 2026
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Why men can't ask women out anymore (opens the original)
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With some surprise, I recently discovered that I have acquired something quite remarkable: status. How did this happy development come about, I hear you ask? Through wealth or fame, professional achievement or acts of charity? No, of course not. I acquired this magical virtue simply by entering a new aspirational class of people: those with more than one child. As Vicky Spratt documented in her recent New Statesman cover story, in 1997 the average age of a first-time mother was just over 26. Tod
The truth about the right-wing barbershop conspiracy (opens the original)
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To explain the death of the British high street, I need to tell you about Kathy McCauslin-Cadieux. She ran a boutique in Pennsylvania for 29 years. At its peak, the business grossed $1.5m a year and employed 25 women. Her customers, or “ladies”, as she called them, followed her from jewellery shows and craft fairs to one of the three bricks-and-mortar locations she would go on to open. “I loved making the women who came in feel beautiful,” she told Dana Mattioli, author of The Everything War. Bu
Is Mississippi really wealthier than the UK? (opens the original)
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Mississippi is richer than the United Kingdom. Yes, the same Mississippi, the poorest state in America, where the average life expectancy for a man is 67 – 12 years younger than for men born in Britain – and infant mortality is over twice as high as in the UK. But, yes: according to official GDP figures, Mississippi is richer than Britain. This is held up by the right as proof of our national decline. Initially floated about a decade ago, this idea has been repeated ever since, discussed in Forb
Supporting North Sea drilling is an extremist position (opens the original)
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My second daughter turns 100 days old this week. For 25 of those days the temperature has exceeded 30°C somewhere in Britain. She has spent a quarter of her life experiencing a heat that, in the past, it would only have been possible to feel if her parents were prepared to negotiate an airport and short-haul flight. In London, where we live, only seven days have been colder than 15°C. This is not normal. Wildfires are raging across our continent: as I write, a fire the size of the Isle of Wight
In defence of Gary Stevenson (opens the original)
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In his seminal work, Capitalist Realism, the late theorist Mark Fisher argued that a defining aspect of modern capitalism was its capacity to crush imagination. To inculcate an ennui so powerful as to make economic critique powerless and alternate realities not just unattainable, but inconceivable. Sometimes this attitude finds its expression implicitly, as people increasingly base their self-worth on consumption and luxury brands. And sometimes it appears explicitly, as when a man with a lanyar
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