The Ghost-Bike
A new poem by André Mangeot.
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The Brexit Showdown
Hell pigs and mega-elephants: Europe’s forgotten wildlife
Once upon a time, Europe’s animal kingdom was as diverse as Africa’s.
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Dangerous minds: the writers hounded by the FBI
From James Baldwin to Susan Sontag: the American authors labelled enemies of the state.
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A Canary Wharf cleaner who takes up insider dealing in ITV’s Cleaning Up
Plus: the return of Channel 4 comedy Catastrophe.
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The tough side of John Keats
A BBC radio documentary discovers the Highland hiker behind the Romantic poet.
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The story of musician Phil Miller, king of the Canterbury scene
As a talented improvising guitarist Miller stood out in an unusual scene, but he was even more distinguished as…
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How being a Premier League football mascot went from altruistic treat to cynical money-spinner
Wanted: polite short people adept at holding hands with footballers, with £700 to spare.
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MasterChef gets vegetables all wrong: there is nothing “humble” about the potato
And “heritage” is just a fancy way of saying old.
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I like to think that the cold is character-building. But what kind of character does it build?
Hands up those of you who live halfway up Scotland and don’t have central heating? Well, that’s sorted the men from…
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As a borderline hoarder, decluttering my home is like an episode of Time Team
You just never know when you’ll need a 12-year-old passport photo, an A-Z of Bournemouth or a Duke of Edinburgh award form, never completed.
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Megan is a 38-year-old single parent. I had to tell her she was too obese for a heart transplant
She calmly explained that I’m not the first doctor to inform her that her obesity is causing her harm
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Ruby Wax Q&A: “If you’re going to be a narcissist, go the whole hog“
The comedian talks Absolutely Fabulous, eighteenth century Versailles, and devolving.
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Keira Knightley raises her game as the ghostwriting novelist Colette
Plus: Stan & Ollie.
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How Chris Grayling became the Fat-out-of-Controller, presiding over transport fiasco after fiasco
Grayling’s pick for Operation Rescue will not be unloading chicken tikka masalas at Ramsgate any time soon – Seaborne has…
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James Graham’s Diary: Defending my Brexit drama, I could hear myself spouting like a politician
The writer of Channel 4’s Brexit: The Uncivil War on becoming an accidental political expert.
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Nancy Pelosi’s last stand
The re-elected Democrat speaker faces her greatest battle yet as she takes on Trump and contends with her party’s…
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The Apple flash crash shows the danger of monopolies
A global economy in which too much power and wealth is concentrated at the top is inherently unstable.
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Slavoj Žižek interview: “Trump created a crack in the liberal centrist hegemony”
The Marxist philosopher on why catastrophe gives him hope.
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Commons Confidential: Keir’s Starmer’s cry of despair on Brexit – “What are we doing?”
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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China and Taiwan’s dangerous face-off
The Chinese president, Xi Jinping, is disrupting the rules that have preserved an uneasy peace for 30 years.
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Letter of the week: failures of parliament
A selection of the best letters received from our readers this week. Email letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced…
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Why, like Jeremy Corbyn, the idea of a second referendum torments me
I voted Remain, and would again. Dozens of people I know, respect and love support a second vote, and…
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First Thoughts: War on obesity, the Singapore delusion, and the teenage world of Dominic Cummings
Smoking was cut dramatically through taxation, prohibition and propaganda – something similar could be done for over-consumption of bad food.
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Leader: Olivia Colman, Queen of the Globes
The actress is representative of an important trend towards greater, and broader, representation of older women on screen.
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Leader: A very British farce
From a failed attempt to organise a lorry traffic jam to the award of a ferry contract to a company with…
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The best thing about Netflix’s You is its mean sense of humour
Through Joe’s sardonic narration, the show displays a rare eagerness to ridicule its own characters.
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