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What do you do?
Haematology registrar with a sub-specialist interest in leukaemia.
Where do you live?
Oxford.
Do you vote?
Yes.
How long have you been a subscriber?
About a year.
What made you start?
The need for a weekly, balanced view on the world.
Is the NS bug in the family?
Not yet, but some issues are getting subtly redistributed!
What pages do you flick to first?
In the Picture.
How do you read yours?
In print at weekends, or when I can between shifts!
What would you like to see more of in the NS?
International politics.
Who are your favourite NS writers?
Ido Vock, Emily Tamkin, Stephen Bush.
Who would you put on the cover of the NS?
Olga Tokarczuk.
With which political figure would you least like to be stuck in a lift?
I’ll take the stairs.
All-time favourite NS article?
“What Machiavelli knew about pandemics” by Alexander Lee, June 2020.
The New Statesman is…
A highlight of the week!
This article appears in the 24 Feb 2021 issue of the New Statesman, Britain unlocks