Leader: Nick Clegg’s second coming
Few recent British politicians have experienced a more remarkable trajectory than Nick Clegg. As leader of the Liberal Democrats,…
ByNew Statesman Magazine
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First Thoughts: Live-tweeting Love Island, puppy love, and why even as a teen in Ohio I knew about Boris
Like millions of people around the country, I have spent the past six weeks watching Love Island. And, like…
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The Johnson train is leaving the station and Tory MPs have decided it’s better to be in it than under it
Boris Johnson’s triumph was powered by selfies. In the formative stages of his leadership bid, before Theresa May had…
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Iain Dale’s Diary: Comic timing, cricketing glory, and what I learnt from chairing the Tory hustings
Over the past three weeks I’ve chaired ten of the 16 hustings in which the two Tory leadership candidates…
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At 29, I look back on my teenage relationships with older men with more – not less – confusion
Last month I turned 29, the same age an ex-boyfriend was when we broke up more than ten years…
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As England’s multicultural team celebrated at Lord’s, it felt as if we were getting somewhere at last
The climax to the greatest cricket game of all time began when England’s Jofra Archer ran in to bowl…
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Why the German urban middle class is going Green
The euphoria that erupted at Green party HQ after the European Parliament elections on 26 May will echo for…
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Commons Confidential: Boris the Brexiteers’ puppet
Held hostage by a Brextremist troika of Iain Duncan Smith, Priti Patel and Dominic Raab at the final-showdown leadership…
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Jo Swinson: “We can’t pretend we didn’t get things wrong”
Jo Swinson is running for the Liberal Democrat leadership, and if the bookmakers are right, she is on course…
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To escape the next recession, we need to move beyond boom and bust
On 14 July the Resolution Foundation released a report warning that the UK is on the cusp of another…
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How mindfulness privatised a social problem
Governments often opt for treatments that focus on the individual rather than social maladies.
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When did tennis commentary become so insipid?
“And that, for your enjoyment, was Ravs the rapping tennis coach.” During a lull in the build-up to the…
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Modern poetry’s sentimentality problem
Many years ago I found myself unable to avoid talking, on a semi-regular basis for a period of 48…
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Cronuts, croiffles and cragels: the many forms of experimentation with the croissant
“An abomination,” snaps a Parisian friend when I mention the croiffle, the latest croissant hybrid to hit our Instagram…
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In Brighton’s shops I can only browse for clutter – because in my suitcase, there’s no room for any
I’ve just been appointed a temporary theatre critic for another magazine, which is nice. It’s just for a month,…
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Lindsey Hilsum Q&A: “Getting older is both the most banal and profound thing“
Lindsey Hilsum was born in 1958 and was brought up in Malvern. She started her career as an aid…
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Walking at Sizewell, where nature forces itself up beautifully around its bleak buildings
I’m in Suffolk this week, staying with a friend in a barn at the end of a dirt track.…
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Watching the ambulance go past, a sixth sense told me it had come for John
The main road is quite wide, so the traffic was managing to get around the ambulance reasonably easily. Perhaps…
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