Richard Osman Q&A: “Do any New Statesman readers have a spare right knee?”
Richard Osman was born in Essex in 1970 and is a host on quiz shows including Pointless, which he created.…
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The summer that remade Britain
Snapshots from 1962 – a year of irrevocable change.
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How work makes us human
Collective benefit is what gives labour meaning, but the pandemic has exposed deep inequalities in the ways we make a living.
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Reviewed in short: New books from Carole Hooven, Kristian Shaw, Lucia Osborne-Crowley and Jay Parini
Testosterone: The Story of the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us by Hooven, Brexlit: British Literature and the European Project by…
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How cities change at night
Matthew Beaumont’s The Walker asks how the nocturnal metropolis differs from the city in daylight.
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Is the Sally Rooney bucket hat the latest literary status symbol?
Rooney's new novel Beautiful World, Where Are You is accompanied by limited edition bucket hats and tote bags. Does it…
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The future of postliberalism
According to a new book by Adrian Pabst, we are waiting for a new social theory to form a new…
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The MP who came back from the dead
The disappearance – and discovery – of John Stonehouse was a scandal of its time. But did the tabloids tell…
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