What do you do?
Right now, I “job-hunt”.
Where do you live?
Surbiton, south-west London.
Do you vote?
Without fail, yes.
How long have you been a subscriber?
Over a year, though I also subscribed from the age of 16 to 21.
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What made you start?
Googling “left-of-centre current affairs magazines” as a 16-year-old.
Is the NS bug in the family?
My father reads it after me.
What pages do you flick to first?
The leading article.
How do you read yours?
Tremendously slowly.
What would you like to see more of in the NS?
Architecture discussions.
Who are your favourite NS writers?
Jeremy Cliffe and Nicholas Lezard.
Who would you put on the cover of the NS?
A collection of important, influential climate scientists.
With which political figure would you least like to be stuck in a lift?
Steve Baker MP.
All-time favourite NS article?
Bruno Maçães’s “The Agent of Chaos”, on Vladimir Putin.
The New Statesman is…
enlightening.
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This article appears in the 30 Mar 2022 issue of the New Statesman, The New Iron Curtain
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