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Latest issue

Power to the people: the rise of the new working-class Tories. Simon Heffer and Stephen Bush on the new Conservative voters.

Plus:

• The fall of Davos Man: Jeremy Cliffe on why the global elite has failed to solve the inequality crisis

• Rowan Williams on the lessons of Oliver Cromwell's failed revolution

• Rachel Cooke enters the bizarre world of Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop

• Andrew Murray on what's next for the left

• Tracey Thorn on soundtracking divorce