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The secret history of strawberries
The New Statesman· 1 day agoThey are the perfect summer fruit – and the kitchen can’t improve on perfection.
Cat Bohannon Q&A: “We can actually make the world a bit better”
The New Statesman· 7 days agoThe academic and author on Jaws, Artemisia Gentileschi, and the fertility culture wars.
Essex University honouring seven outstanding individuals this summer
Colchester Evening Gazette via Yahoo News UK· 4 days agoAll seven were “honoured”, “thrilled” and “delighted” with the special recognition...
From Neil Jordan to Lara Maiklem: new books reviewed in short
The New Statesman· 1 day agoMichael Collins – the sprawling biopic about the Irish revolutionary hero – is perhaps the director...
Labour’s first policy should be to break up the NHS
The New Statesman· 1 day agoThe most famous example in recent times was Bank of England independence, a policy Gordon Brown developed in secret over the two years before the 1997...
James Corden’s comedy of menace
The New Statesman· 5 days agoJoe Penhall’s new play The Constituent, starring Corden and Anna Maxwell Martin, is a funny, disturbing vision of public service and private despair.
Can Labour's GB Energy deliver green socialism?
The New Statesman· 7 days agoAt the height of neoliberalism in the 1990s, we were told the benefits of globalisation required nation-states to relinquish their economic control to...
The Policy Ask with Paul McNamee: "The prospect of Rachel Reeves becoming the first female...
The New Statesman· 6 days agoPaul McNamee is the director of Labour Climate and Environment Forum. This has included advising on...
What the National Rally’s rise means for Labour
The New Statesman· 2 days agoKeir Starmer and David Lammy may soon be faced with nationalist governments across the Atlantic and the Channel.
Down and Out: the Movie – in cinemas not quite yet
The New Statesman· 7 days agoEight years ago he flew me over to Los Angeles and locked me up in a cabin in the mountains near Lake Arrowhead and didn’t let me out until I’d written a...