Lea Ypi on mothers, the motherland and the cruelties of UK immigration
I tend to suppress the worst things about being an immigrant in this country. But the government’s anti-Albanian rhetoric has…
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A doctor’s prescription for saving the NHS – Audio Long Reads
The New Statesman’s medical editor spent New Year’s Day in A&E after his mother collapsed. It revealed the human cost…
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The good social network: what Twitter could learn from the coffeehouse – Audio Long Reads
How a centuries-old institution can save today’s faltering social media culture.
From the archive: Trotsky in Mexico; Angela Carter on the maternity ward – Audio Long Reads
Revisiting two seminal articles from 1937 and 1983.
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From the archive: when HG Wells met Josef Stalin – Audio Long Reads
In 1934, Wells arrived in Moscow to meet a group of Soviet writers. While there Stalin granted him an interview.
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Then Later, His Ghost: a Christmas story by Sarah Hall – Audio Long Reads
Christmas coming, a man and a woman in a lonely long barn expecting a child, a post-apocalyptic landscape, a journey…
Karl Ove Knausgaard: a personal manifesto on the art of fiction
Why the novel still matters
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A brief history of “woke”: how one word fuelled the culture wars – Audio Long Reads
From Suella Braverman to Elon Musk, war has been declared on liberalism. How did one word come to mean so…
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