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15 February 2023

Subscriber of the week: Murray Rowlands

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What do you do?

I am retired but work at the film society I set up and a job club I helped set up.

Where do you live?

Camberley, Surrey.

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Always: Labour NZ or UK.

How long have you been a subscriber?

A reader for 60 years (in New Zealand I’d eagerly await it via air-mail), subscriber for 50.

What made you start?

I wanted a source for progressive ideas and commentary on social change.

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Jacinda Ardern.

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I would dread being in a lift with Nigel Farage and catching the Ukip bug.

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Marr on “Escaping the austerity trap” (16 November 2022).

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essential reading to maintain a degree of political awareness and perspective.

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This article appears in the 15 Feb 2023 issue of the New Statesman, Why the right is losing everywhere