What do you do?
Teach.
Where do you live?
Sheffield.
Do you vote?
Always, but, like Pascal’s wager, more in hope than expectation.
How long have you been a subscriber?
Forty years plus.
What made you start?
A spat between Christopher Hitchens and Michael Foot over Indira Gandhi’s state of emergency in India.
Is the NS bug in the family?
It’s spreading.
What pages do you flick to first?
What would you like to see more of in the NS?
“Capitalist democracies can’t solve climate change.” Discuss.
Who are your favourite NS writers?
John Burnside (word angel), Laurie Penny (so right, so often), Jeremy Seabrook (sage sociologist).
Who would you put on the cover of the NS?
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?”
The New Statesman is…
Something for the weekend.
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This article appears in the 18 May 2022 issue of the New Statesman, Putin vs Nato