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How YouTubers really make their millions
The teenage girls who make up Zoella’s fiercely loyal fanbase are customers, even if they aren’t aware of it.*/ It’s no longer a secret that Zoella earns more in a month than you do in a year....
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Radovan Karadzic is in prison - but Bosnia's future is still in jeopardy
The past isn't a foreign country. It isn't even past. They were living in a student dorm. One family per room. Lives packed up into shopping bags. They cooked on Bunsen-burners looted from the local...
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The Brexit camp may have sinister designs on our data
Leaving Europe could allow the government to snoop on us more freely, and would favour the data-mining tech companies given "sweetheart" tax deals by the Tories. Late last month, Justice Secretary...
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Cristiano Ronaldo’s approach to fatherhood is a victory for male supremacy
Reproductive technology – like that used by the footballer to have children – is not a progressive solution to the way childbearing subjugates women. So, is he or isn’t he? Cristiano Ronaldo, 31,...
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Millennials shouldn’t bother having kids – for the sake of the kids
How are we ever going to afford to procreate, anyway?*/ What’s in a Google search history? Mine is a list of medical symptoms, occasionally interrupted by elaborate hypothetical questions. Which, I...
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George Galloway on London’s terror threat, the Muslim “germ” of extremism,...
The outspoken London mayoral candidate discusses Islamophobia in the capital, his relationship with Labour, his disappointment in Sadiq Khan, and reveals his future electoral ambitions. Spring...
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Church, cabaret, and a well-timed technical hitch: the making of Ronnie...
The TV comedy star known for his work in The Two Ronnies has died at the age of 85. Ronnie Corbett was born into what he termed the “respectable working class” of Edinburgh in 1930 and decided acting,...
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My mum was always worried about people breaking in - even when she needed it
“But the thing is, Mum,” I used to say, “one day you could be lying on the floor, and then you’d be praying for people to get in, wouldn’t you?” In August last year, my mum had a fall at home and was...
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Yes, Trump hates women - but they hate him right back
If Donald Trump’s casual sexism makes him an icon to men who feel robbed of their birthright, female voters aren't won over.“Women? “You have to treat ’em like shit,” Donald Trump told New York...
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On Radio 1's Early Breakfast Show, we meet Pete "the Bread"
All presenters try to get the best from the public - but it's harder at 4am.“Good morning to Andy, milking cows. And Jason trucking down the M4. Hello to lovely Lawrence in Somerset, and to Jimmy the...
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Rowan Atkinson as a French Detective? It's as weird as it sounds
Maigret Sets a Trap and The A Word reviewed.Zut, alors! What to say about ITV’s Maigret? More specifically, what to say about the casting of Rowan Atkinson as the French detective? His performance is...
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Can a film work in a single, unbroken shot? Victoria shows it can
In avoiding a single cut, Sebastian Schipper’s thriller allows the actors to relish building a performance chronologically. Jean-Luc Godard popularised the jump-cut in À bout de souffle, the larky 1960...
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The NS Podcast #142: Spies, socialism and the SNP
The New Statesman podcast. This week, Helen and Stephen discuss British politics since the election of Jeremy Corbyn: what has changed and what are politicians over-looking? Anna Leszkiewicz, the New...
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In the debate over British steel, don't forget the human cost
The government must learn the lessons of the collapse of MG Rover. Today, Lewis Goodall is a successful TV journalist. I first met him when he was a pupil at Turves Green Boys School in my Birmingham...
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Think Donald Trump’s abortion rhetoric is bad? It’s the reality for some UK...
It’s easier to laugh at the backwardness of attitudes elsewhere than to face up to the brutality-by-omission happening on our own shores. Sometimes, it feels like every day brings a new statement on...
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Donald Trump is right – the pro-life movement is about punishing women
If you believe that abortion should be banned except in cases of rape and incest, you are not “pro-life”. You are anti-woman. Donald Trump thinks women should be punished for abortion. At least, he...
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Three centuries of data debunks Osborne’s economic theories
The Chancellor’s record on debt is worse than that of the last Labour government. */ Here’s a quiz question. How large do you think the UK’s debts over the past three centuries have been, typically, as...
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Leader: The age of hyper-terrorism
In an open society, there is a delicate balance between the competing claims of liberty and security - so what do we do about terrorism? In the week before Easter Monday, Islamist militants carried out...
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What will happen to George Osborne's minimum wage experiment?
The cost of failure is high: for the Chancellor, and more importantly, for the poor. 1 April is April Fools’ Day, and also a red letter day for George Osborne: the day that his “national living wage”...
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George Osborne's living wage is nothing of the kind
The wage rise, while welcome, won't make up for the Conservatives' wider failures. Today sees the introduction of the National Living Wage. Labour whole-heartedly welcomes any move to boost pay for...
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