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The football club that data built
The New Statesman· 6 days agoEvery football club is a Ship of Theseus. But his real star is Matthew Benham, the man who, after making his fortune in the City, and then through...
How could Labour's local power plan work?
The New Statesman· 6 days agoThis article was originally published as an edition of the Green Transition, New Statesman Spotlight’s weekly newsletter on the economics of net zero....
Disney’s Shardlake series is tediously anachronistic
The New Statesman· 4 days agoEngland, 1536, and in London, Matthew Shardlake (Arthur Hughes), a crook-backed barrister of Lincoln’s Inn, is eating his lunch when he is interrupted by...
The Tories need to avoid false comfort
The New Statesman· 2 days ago“Loss aversion” is a well-documented psychological phenomenon: as humans we have a cognitive bias that makes the pain of losing something we already have...
Exclusive polling: councillors give their verdict on 14 years of Tory rule
The New Statesman· 3 days agoNew Statesman Spolight’s latest policy report on economic growth and the regions, on news-stands...
The internet has ruined true stories
The New Statesman· 5 days agoHad Grigori Rasputin not been born a Siberian peasant in 1869, had he not ingratiated himself with the Russian aristocracy until he befriended the very...
The lonely land
The New Statesman· 4 days agoLast year, the number of children and young people referred to mental health services reached a record high. Among girls and young women, rates of...
A raid on Russian assets would risk everything
The New Statesman· 4 days agoUsing Russia’s money to pay for Western weapons deliveries to Ukraine seems like a clever idea. The Group of Seven (G7) industrial countries are planning...
American men don’t know what “respecting women” means
The New Statesman· 4 days agoAmerican men seem fundamentally confused about what it means to treat women with basic decency....
George Robertson: Why Russia fears the European Union
The New Statesman· 4 days agoGeorge Robertson was at Nato’s Brussels headquarters when the second plane hit. By 9.30pm on 11...
