What do you do?
Software engineering manager.
Where do you live?
Birmingham.
Do you vote?
With little expectation, yes.
How long have you been a subscriber?
Since 2015.
What made you start?
I wanted to feel connected to things.
Is the NS bug in the family?
I occasionally read sections aloud to my partner.
What pages do you flick to first?
The Leader, letters and Commons Confidential.
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How do you read yours?
Currently, while cradling a four-month-old and a bottle.
What would you like to see more of in the NS?
Interrogation of Big Tech (the piece on effective altruism was brilliant).
Who are your favourite NS writers?
Pippa Bailey, Rowan Williams, Andrew Marr.
Who would you put on the cover of the NS?
Meredith Whittaker, president of Signal.
With which political figure would you least like to be stuck in a lift?
“30p” Lee Anderson.
All-time favourite NS article?
The New Statesman is…
trying to find some kind of path amid extremes.
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This article appears in the 15 Nov 2023 issue of the New Statesman, Desperate Measures