Watching Carlos Alcaraz at Wimbledon, I witnessed something startlingly new
From ball one the 20-year-old was in ebullient battle mode – tearing up the grass and flipping defiant defence into risk.
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Ed Smith is an author, journalist and contributing writer to the New Statesman.
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In a cool public library on Australia’s hottest day, I revisited what the state can offer
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Corbyn’s survival brings new vitality to the Tory extreme: Labour are doing it, perhaps we should too.
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The Nixon-era press held great power and responsibility – now, we are all editors
Thanks to the influence of social media, anyone trying to exercise power through old-fashioned channels faces a daily opinion…
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