The decline of Britain’s community sports pitches – and why it’s an own goal
When a free football pitch disappears, locals lose so much more than just a place to kick a ball around.
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“When it’s gone, it’s gone“: Why do schools keep selling off their playing fields?
Austerity has created new funding pressures for schools, which are having to leverage the one asset they still have left:…
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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.
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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.
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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…
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“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.
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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.
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“I became illegal and he started to use that against me, arguing that I needed to follow his rules”.
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