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Evening Call: People of Colour, People of Talent
The extremely online are at it again – only this time, it’s electoral. " data-adaptive-image-768-img="" data-adaptive-image-1024-img=""...
Evening Call: People of Colour, People of Talent
The extremely online are at it again – only this time, it’s electoral. " data-adaptive-image-768-img="" data-adaptive-image-1024-img=""...
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Constituency profiles for the 2019 general election
The News Statesman team has been visiting key battlegrounds and symbolic seats across the UK in order to write constituency profiles for this year’s election. "...
Constituency profiles for the 2019 general election
The News Statesman team has been visiting key battlegrounds and symbolic seats across the UK in order to write constituency profiles for this year’s election. "...
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What we want: A second referendum
And I’d like 16- and 17-year-olds, UK citizens living abroad and EU citizens with settled status to be able to vote in it. " data-adaptive-image-768-img=""...
What we want: A second referendum
And I’d like 16- and 17-year-olds, UK citizens living abroad and EU citizens with settled status to be able to vote in it. " data-adaptive-image-768-img=""...
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What we want: for us to start listening to our intellectuals
After the election, I hope that there is a time and space for thought. " data-adaptive-image-768-img="" data-adaptive-image-1024-img=""...
What we want: for us to start listening to our intellectuals
After the election, I hope that there is a time and space for thought. " data-adaptive-image-768-img="" data-adaptive-image-1024-img=""...
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B is for Black Lives Matter: The ongoing fight against systemic racism
The second letter in the New Statesman's A-Z of the decade. " data-adaptive-image-768-img="" data-adaptive-image-1024-img=""...
B is for Black Lives Matter: The ongoing fight against systemic racism
The second letter in the New Statesman's A-Z of the decade. " data-adaptive-image-768-img="" data-adaptive-image-1024-img=""...
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Norwich North is a key political battleground. But its voters are tired of the fight
The Tories and Labour are preparing for a close contest in this bellweather seat, which has backed the winning party in every election since...
Norwich North is a key political battleground. But its voters are tired of the fight
The Tories and Labour are preparing for a close contest in this bellweather seat, which has backed the winning party in every election since...
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What we want: to prioritise tackling inequality
The difference between rich and poor, and between rural and urban, is a structural rift that affects everything from health to cultural productivity; from access to job markets...
What we want: to prioritise tackling inequality
The difference between rich and poor, and between rural and urban, is a structural rift that affects everything from health to cultural productivity; from access to job markets...
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What we want: a focus on local politics
We don’t want politicians talking in highfalutin language; we want a sense of the changes they would bring. " data-adaptive-image-768-img=""...
What we want: a focus on local politics
We don’t want politicians talking in highfalutin language; we want a sense of the changes they would bring. " data-adaptive-image-768-img=""...
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What we want: to cut the prison population, abolish Trident and embrace immigration
The Home Office should also be put in special measures, like a delinquent school, until it comes up with a humane asylum policy. "...
What we want: to cut the prison population, abolish Trident and embrace immigration
The Home Office should also be put in special measures, like a delinquent school, until it comes up with a humane asylum policy. "...
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What we want: grown-up, authentic politicians
So much of this election isn’t about politics at all. It’s about two tight-knit groups of (mostly male) professional public speakers and image managers. "...
What we want: grown-up, authentic politicians
So much of this election isn’t about politics at all. It’s about two tight-knit groups of (mostly male) professional public speakers and image managers. "...
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What we want: A hung parliament
Neither Boris Johnson nor Jeremy Corbyn deserves to win the general election. " data-adaptive-image-768-img="" data-adaptive-image-1024-img=""...
What we want: A hung parliament
Neither Boris Johnson nor Jeremy Corbyn deserves to win the general election. " data-adaptive-image-768-img="" data-adaptive-image-1024-img=""...
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What we want: To end the Eton mess and start again
You only have to look at the British politicians of the past ten years to see why. " data-adaptive-image-768-img="" data-adaptive-image-1024-img=""...
What we want: To end the Eton mess and start again
You only have to look at the British politicians of the past ten years to see why. " data-adaptive-image-768-img="" data-adaptive-image-1024-img=""...
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Jeremy Corbyn's big Brexit leak gives Boris Johnson and the media a headache
Why do we only talk about the detail of Brexit when the illusion of secrecy is added? " data-adaptive-image-768-img=""...
Jeremy Corbyn's big Brexit leak gives Boris Johnson and the media a headache
Why do we only talk about the detail of Brexit when the illusion of secrecy is added? " data-adaptive-image-768-img=""...
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I cannot vote in the general election. And now more than ever, my life is in your hands
Roughly three million EU citizens live in the UK today and none will be able to vote in an election called because of their existence. ..
I cannot vote in the general election. And now more than ever, my life is in your hands
Roughly three million EU citizens live in the UK today and none will be able to vote in an election called because of their existence. ..
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Evening Call: Anti-Semitism in the Spotlight
If the improvement in Labour's polling now stalls or reverses, it seems likely that this scandal will be part of the reason why. " data-adaptive-image-768-img=""...
Evening Call: Anti-Semitism in the Spotlight
If the improvement in Labour's polling now stalls or reverses, it seems likely that this scandal will be part of the reason why. " data-adaptive-image-768-img=""...
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A is for Avocado: How a ubiquitous fruit defined a decade of generational inequality
The first letter in the New Statesman’s A-Z of the decade. " data-adaptive-image-768-img=""...
A is for Avocado: How a ubiquitous fruit defined a decade of generational inequality
The first letter in the New Statesman’s A-Z of the decade. " data-adaptive-image-768-img=""...
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Populist leaders are taking us backwards in the fight against torture
Britain once led the way in establishing the torture prohibition, but we're now shirking the same obligations that we helped create. "...
Populist leaders are taking us backwards in the fight against torture
Britain once led the way in establishing the torture prohibition, but we're now shirking the same obligations that we helped create. "...
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Could changes in council control swing votes at this election?
Perhaps the popularity or otherwise of local council control is a form of reassurance for people thinking of switching parties. "...
Could changes in council control swing votes at this election?
Perhaps the popularity or otherwise of local council control is a form of reassurance for people thinking of switching parties. "...
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From the front lines of a feminist disrupter campaign
The Women’s Equality Party knows it doesn’t have much hope of gaining a seat on 12 December, so it is instead campaigning with a focus on ending gender-based violence. But...
From the front lines of a feminist disrupter campaign
The Women’s Equality Party knows it doesn’t have much hope of gaining a seat on 12 December, so it is instead campaigning with a focus on ending gender-based violence. But...
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It's 2019, and the BBC is still using all male panels on Question Time
It's like universal suffrage never happened. " data-adaptive-image-768-img="" data-adaptive-image-1024-img=""...
It's 2019, and the BBC is still using all male panels on Question Time
It's like universal suffrage never happened. " data-adaptive-image-768-img="" data-adaptive-image-1024-img=""...
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The Reinvention of Humanity: how women created anthropology
A new book explains that women pioneered the study of other cultures. " data-adaptive-image-768-img="" data-adaptive-image-max-img=""> In...
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A Clearing
A new poem by Heather Christie. " data-adaptive-image-768-img="" data-adaptive-image-1024-img="" data-adaptive-image-max-img=""> They don’t know why to lump it means to put up...
A Clearing
A new poem by Heather Christie. " data-adaptive-image-768-img="" data-adaptive-image-1024-img="" data-adaptive-image-max-img=""> They don’t know why to lump it means to put up...
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Are general elections all the same?
A new history of general elections gave me a strange sense of déjà vu. " data-adaptive-image-768-img="" data-adaptive-image-1024-img=""...
Are general elections all the same?
A new history of general elections gave me a strange sense of déjà vu. " data-adaptive-image-768-img="" data-adaptive-image-1024-img=""...
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The battle for the soul of Scotland
As the SNP struggles to hold its movement together and exploit unhappiness about Brexit, a broad, disruptive coalition of populists and the left is agitating for a more radical plan for...
The battle for the soul of Scotland
As the SNP struggles to hold its movement together and exploit unhappiness about Brexit, a broad, disruptive coalition of populists and the left is agitating for a more radical plan for...
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