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I’m an employment lawyer.
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Christchurch, New Zealand (originally and proudly from Newcastle upon Tyne).
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Always.
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About five years, but a reader for 40 years.
What made you start?
The copies I found in my library were too outdated.
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In an easy chair with the cat on my knee.
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Articles about inequality in the education system and tackling child poverty.
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Gary Younge and Jonathan Liew.
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Priti Patel.
Who would you put on the cover of the NS?
Chris Smalls, the president of the Amazon Labor Union.
All-time favourite NS article?
Anything on land ownership issues by Danny Dorling.
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This article appears in the 29 Jun 2022 issue of the New Statesman, American Darkness