🇬🇧 UK May 5, 2026 · Anoosh Chakelian

Stevenage Woman keeps thinking about Nigel Farage

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New Statesman UK
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Stevenage, a Hertfordshire town 30-odd miles out from London, is crumbling under the weight of its symbolism. Literally. The leader of the council says it was about 15 years ago when all the Fifties concrete here passed its best-before date. As Britain’s first New Town, slotting Blitz-dizzy Londoners into its grid of council terraces and pedestrianised plazas from 1951, this was ground zero for the utopian ideals of a postwar nation.



Now, its concrete looks a little soggy and sad. The classic

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