Introducing a New Statesman series: Britain’s Lost Spaces
The New Statesman team will be tracking the decline of the public realm through vanishing community buildings and spaces.
By
Society
Latest in
Society
Ronan Farrow on pursuing Harvey Weinstein and experiencing a “halo effect of misogyny”
The New Yorker writer encountered spies, betrayal and prejudice while reporting the exposé that fuelled the #MeToo movement.
By
Parliament’s chaplain complained about “stench” and security risk of Westminster Tube’s homeless
After two rough sleepers died in the Underground station, the Reverend Rose Hudson-Wilkin told parliamentary authorities that she felt “physically…
By
“No bio-wife will ever be that loyal”: the Reddit sex robot forums radicalising men
Rather than being a solace for lonely men, sex robots are becoming a tool for misogynists to take so-called revenge.
By
Crumbling Britain: the UK’s pothole plague is a sign of national decline
As cyclists and drivers are endangered, politicians too could be toppled by the deteriorating state of our roads.
ByWhy undocument migrant women miss out on #metoo
“I became illegal and he started to use that against me, arguing that I needed to follow his rules”.
By
On Nerd Entitlement
White male nerds need to recognise that other people had traumatic upbringings, too - and that's different from structural oppression.…
ByNaipaul, Orwell and Stamford Bridge
Last weekend I was in the south of France for a friend’s 40th birthday party, held at his villa in…
By