What do you do?
Freelance finance director.
Where do you live?
Aylesbury, Bucks.
Do you vote?
Oh yes.
How long have you been a subscriber?
About three years.
What made you start?
Buying the odd copy for holidays; it then became my main read.
Is the NS bug in the family?
My mother-in-law shares mine.
What pages do you flick to first?
Nicholas Lezard, Commons Confidential.
How do you read yours?
A mix of dipping into the hard copy and a daily look online.
What would you like to see more of in the NS?
Expanded TV reviews.
Who would you put on the cover of the NS?
How about Ruth Davidson or Andy Street?
With which political figure would you least like to be stuck in a lift?
I’d wait for the next one if I found I was next to Rees-Mogg, Johnson, Patel, Trump…
All-time favourite NS article?
“The closing of the conservative mind” by Robert Saunders (12 June 2019).
The New Statesman is…
Balanced and more interesting than anything else.
[See also: This England: Cat on an oil rig roof]
This article appears in the 08 Jun 2022 issue of the New Statesman, Marked Man