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28 February 2024

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Corporate communications.

Where do you live?

Calgary, Alberta.

Do you vote?

Always, in honour of the women who made it possible for me to do so.

How long have you been a subscriber?

Since late 2022.

What made you start?

I picked up a copy at Heathrow when flying home to Canada. I was hooked!

Is the NS bug in the family?

Just me.

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I read it cover to cover.

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How do you read yours?

With a coffee, on the couch.

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Who are your favourite NS writers?

Nicholas Lezard, Andrew Marr, Jill Filipovic, Alona Ferber.

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Kemi Badenoch or Angela Rayner.

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The US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito.

All-time favourite NS article?

Jason Cowley’s “The Reeves Doctrine”.

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This article appears in the 28 Feb 2024 issue of the New Statesman, The QE Theory of Everything