Monica Macias: “I wanted to become a pianist. Kim Il Sung said no”
The author – and daughter of Equatorial Guinea’s former dictator Francisco Macías Nguema – on her childhood spent in exile…
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Jack Monroe: “I’m still working through my teenage rebellion”
The food writer and campaigner on her hero parents and belting out “Shout” by Lulu to combat nerves.
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Rachel de Souza: “Big Tech knows it harms children – it should get serious”
The children’s commissioner on social media, porn and the mental health crisis in schools.
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Fantasies and fever dreams
How Quinn Slobodian, the author of Crack-Up Capitalism, came back down to earth.
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Mary Quant: “Technology and culture are the same thing”
The ground-breaking fashion designer has died at the age of 93. In 1990, she spoke to Deborah Orr for the…
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John Gray on 110 years of the New Statesman: “I regret I didn’t criticise Tony Blair more”
The philosopher on his time writing for the magazine as an essayist and critic, 1996-present.
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Claire Tomalin on 110 years of the New Statesman: “I felt at home”
The biographer recalls her time as the magazine’s literary editor, 1974-1977.
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André Carrilho on 110 years of the New Statesman: “Putin has grown puffier”
The illustrator on working with the magazine since 2014.
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Cristina Odone on 110 years of the New Statesman: “We struck nerves”
The journalist recalls her time as the magazine’s deputy editor, 1998-2004.
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Julian Barnes on 110 years of the New Statesman: “I did Martin Amis’s dirty work”
The novelist recalls his time as the magazine's deputy literary editor and TV critic, 1976-1981.
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Ian Hargreaves on 110 years of the New Statesman: “Mandelson was a charmer and a bully”
The journalist and academic recalls his time as the magazine’s editor, 1996-1998.
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Jemima Khan on 110 years of the New Statesman: “I felt bad about my Nick Clegg interview”
The screenwriter recalls her time as the magazine’s associate editor, 2011-2015.
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Richard Ingrams: “Journalism is a drug: you can’t give it up”
The veteran editor on satire, libel and Private Eye.
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Simon Armitage’s Q&A: “One of my faults is that I look for faults in others”
The poet on losing his father, his experience on “celebrity” Mastermind and his love of sports.
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Emily Thornberry: Jeremy Corbyn’s treatment is “very sad”
The shadow attorney-general on her Islington neighbour, Keir Starmer’s leadership style and why current gender legislation is “inhumane”.
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The Policy Ask with Polly Neate: “If people aren’t angry with me, I’m not doing my job properly”
The chief executive of Shelter on dealing with abuse from men’s rights activists, the Grenfell tragedy and how to solve…
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Linton Kwesi Johnson: “The police declared war on black youth”
The “father of dub poetry” on political verse, institutional racism and growing up as a member of the “rebel generation”.
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Graham Allison: “American politics is driving towards a provocation that China could not avoid”
The academic who coined “Thucydides’s Trap” warns we are sliding into a catastrophic new conflict.
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The Policy Ask with Alfie Stirling: “It’s all about trying to fail in the most successful way possible”
The economist on energy tariffs, reforming benefits and why drastic action is needed to rebuild society.
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Lucy Easthope: “We are all disaster survivors now”
The leading expert on emergency planning and disaster recovery speaks about life after the pandemic.
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