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22 March 2023

Subscriber of the week: Richard Hemmings

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Artist, illustrator, music lover and gardener.

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Waveney Valley, Suffolk.

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I returned to the NS five or six years ago.

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Andrew Marr, Jeremy Cliffe, John Gray, Phil Whitaker.

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Rees-Mogg. I’ll use the stairs.

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This article appears in the 22 Mar 2023 issue of the New Statesman, Banks on the brink