
Investigating insomnia: on living with sleeplessness
Marina Benjamin explores the semiotics of sleep and its absence.
ByMarina Benjamin explores the semiotics of sleep and its absence.
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ByI may not choose to eat turkey but since we do, I can I have fun choosing what everyone drinks.
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ByI’m sure I’m not the only woman for whom Héloïse Letissier stirs up a half-forgotten feeling of wanting to be…
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ByRough sleeping is only the most visible symptom of a larger crisis.
ByIt seems to me to be the kind of deal that a 52/48 referendum result requires.
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ByTo defeat a resurgent right, we need rupture, not syrupy memoirs on a better yesterday.
ByThe Oxford University professor and author of The Future of Capitalism on how to heal deep rifts in society.
ByYour weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
ByWhatever its future in England, fracking has already left a troubled legacy and created a new type of activist.
ByA selection of the best letters received from our readers this week. Email letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced…
ByHer sister had come with her to surgery. We exchanged a glance.
ByThe founder of Aardman Animations on the Magic Roundabout, Tudor portraits and Trump.
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ByNearly half of Trump’s voters think that global warming is a hoax “invented to deceive people”.
ByTwo of our greatest thinkers tackle humanity’s key questions.
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ByAfter a long period of economic expansion, a slowdown has begun. But in an era of high debt and low…
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