Watch: Ed Balls’ handshake left hanging by a voter in a Newark supermarket
Shadow chancellor Ed Balls and deputy Labour leader Harriet Harman are shunned by a Newark voter when out shopping in…
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London has more branches of Starbucks than any EU country
And not one of them is in Hackney.
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Why empires fall: from ancient Rome to Putin’s Russia
Moscow, to western eyes, does not look much like Rome. But if there is any country in the world where…
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Floating city the size of Heathrow could moor up off Hong Kong
A surprisingly feasible (but still not entirely likely) idea to live, like our ancient forefathers, in the ocean - on…
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Comrades at war: the decline and fall of the Socialist Workers Party
How a rape accusation has destroyed the Socialist Workers Party – whose members have included Christopher Hitchens and Paul Foot –…
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The most polluted cities on earth are not where you think
You wouldn’t know it from the recent election campaign, but Delhi has the worst air quality in the world.
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On this week’s New Statesman podcast: Episode Forty-Five
Rafael Behr, George Eaton and Anoosh Chakelian discuss the prospects for Newark's by-election, sound artist Aleks Kolkowski explains why he…
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