How the MeToo backlash helped Russell Brand
Also this week: Bring on by-election season, and my predictions for Strictly Come Dancing.
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The rise and fall of Russell Brand
The decadent Britain of the 2000s was the perfect place for the comedian-cum-pseudo intellectual to thrive.
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Russell Brand’s career was defined by misogyny – and audiences delighted in it
What a comedian chooses to joke about is revealing – and has a bearing on the world at large.
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Why we’ll never understand Lucy Letby
The nurse’s motive will remain unknown, but there are irrefutable systemic failures which can be addressed.
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Subscriber of the Week: Waterstones Dad
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An eight-hour lunch puts the passing of time in perspective
Catching up with the cartoonist Martin Rowson provided valuable insights into friendship, satire and immortality.
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The Huw Edwards crisis has revealed the BBC’s editorial blind spot
If the corporation is to survive, it needs a robust policy for covering celebrity scandals.
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Behind the rise of Amol Rajan
Former colleagues recall being “flabbergasted” by his success, but soon he’ll be presenting University Challenge. What’s his secret?
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The decadent society
With the nation consumed by sleaze, the serious business of government is at a standstill.
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Hunt for the suspended BBC presenter exposes our privacy law mess
Online sleuths will inevitably accuse the wrong people. Better to name the subjects of investigations.
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The race to buy the Telegraph group shows that newspapers are far from done
For the past couple of years the publication has been widely assumed to be in play, following the death of…
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Inside the downfall of Edward Enninful
Did the former Vogue editor really live up to his mission?
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Letter of the week: The Treasury tyranny
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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Keep cameras out of British courtrooms
Excessive media voyeurism can turn a sensitive case into its own content vertical – with seriously negative effects.
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How will Fleet Street vote at the next general election?
The next UK election could be the first at which the Murdoch papers do not back the winning party.
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A trip to the GMB sofa and a lesson for lying politicians
Also this week: awkward encounters at my book launch and Prince Harry takes on the Mirror.
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Who could buy the Telegraph Media Group?
Whoever takes on the group’s titles will have a role in shaping the future of British conservatism.
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The prince who fell to Earth
During his day in court, Harry seemed to have a sparse understanding of how journalism works.
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The new front in Prince Harry’s battle with the tabloids
Even if the Duke of Sussex fails to prove any unlawful behaviour by the Mirror Group, he is likely to…
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Why won’t Dorries declare her Talk TV earnings?
The former culture secretary still hasn’t entered any payments into the MPs’ register of interests.
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