What do you do?
Retired academic.
Where do you live?
Wolverhampton.
Do you vote?
Yes.
How long have you been a subscriber?
Too long to remember.
What made you start?
Tired of reading and invariably buying the current issue in Smith’s.
Is the NS bug in the family?
My wife and I read it and swap articles.
What pages do you flick to first?
Usually the back.
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How do you read yours?
Flick through to note what to read then back to front.
What would you like to see more of in the NS?
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Who are your favourite NS writers?
John Gray, Tracey Thorn, Phil Whitaker.
Who would you put on the cover of the NS?
A great film or TV director.
With which political figure would you least like to be stuck in a lift?
No contest: Donald Trump.
All-time favourite NS article?
Phil Whitaker, “Journal of a plague year”, December 2020.
The New Statesman is…
essential reading for our times.
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This article appears in the 26 Feb 2025 issue of the New Statesman, Britain in Trump’s World