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29 June 2022

Subscriber of the Week: David Beck

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I’m an employment lawyer.

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Christchurch, New Zealand (originally and proudly from Newcastle upon Tyne).

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Always. 

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About five years, but a reader for 40 years.

What made you start?

The copies I found in my library were too outdated.

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Articles about inequality in the education system and tackling child poverty.

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Gary Younge and Jonathan Liew.

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Priti Patel.

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Chris Smalls, the president of the Amazon Labor Union.

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Anything on land ownership issues by Danny Dorling.

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an ideal worth preserving. 

[ See also: Subscriber of the Week: Gaël Lescot ]

This article appears in the 29 Jun 2022 issue of the New Statesman, American Darkness