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18 May 2022

Subscriber of the Week: Phillip Walsh

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Teach.

Where do you live?

Sheffield.

Do you vote?

Always, but, like Pascal’s wager, more in hope than expectation.

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Forty years plus.

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A spat between Christopher Hitchens and Michael Foot over Indira Gandhi’s state of emergency in India.

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It’s spreading.

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Poetry. Nature. Q&A.

What would you like to see more of in the NS?

“Capitalist democracies can’t solve climate change.” Discuss.

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John Burnside (word angel), Laurie Penny (so right, so often), Jeremy Seabrook (sage sociologist).

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Marina Ovsyannikova and others arrested for opposing the Putin regime.

All-time favourite NS article?

Colin McGinn on the philosophy of mind: “All machine and no ghost?”

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This article appears in the 18 May 2022 issue of the New Statesman, Putin vs Nato