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The sportsmen who can lose games – but not their hair
Why do men try to hide their bald spots? Is it vanity, pride, the fear of being seen as less macho, lack of confidence? About 20 years ago, around this time of the year, on the first day of springlike...
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Meet the women bringing the kitchen to Wikipedia
Most food throughout history has been cooked by women - “but if you can’t name them, they get forgotten”. There are some places where a spot of good old-fashioned sexism seems par for the course. I’m...
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Boris’s taxes, Justin Welby’s posh paternity and how the left can rescue...
David Cameron is remarkably adept at getting out of trouble. I have before me a Norwegian newspaper website. It shows the country’s top 20 people for annual income, alongside the top 20 lists for...
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New Statesman Literacy Week 2016
Welcome to the New Statesman's literacy week, discussing literature and literacy from policy to practice. The word "literacy" means different things in different contexts. For many people, the first...
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The British people must campaign to save the BBC
The BBC's independence and funding are threatened by this government. We don’t know what we’ve got until it’s gone. Well that might be true of the BBC as we know it. At a time when the government has...
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Has Jeremy Hunt changed his mind on unilaterally imposing a new junior...
The health secretary appears to be backing away from claims he is prepared to impose a new contract without the agreement of the BMA. The Guardian has today suggested that Jeremy Hunt has “u-turned”...
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From Enid Blyton to Richard Hoggart: The use of literacy
The questions about class and literacy which inspired the New Statesman's Literacy Week. The first thing to say is that I don’t remember it being that bad, being poor. Let me caveat that straight...
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Police and Crime Commissioners have significant powers - pay attention to them
The first PCC elections in November 2012 attracted the lowest national turnout in British electoral history. Next month voters in England and Wales will go to the polls to elect Police and Crime...
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George Osborne's economic assault will wound the Brexiters
The risk for the Leave campaign is that financial fears trump immigration concerns. In recent weeks, George Osborne has been charged with returning to submarine mode. The Chancellor was said to be...
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Tyson Fury is a victim of racism – from white people
He is part of a new golden age for British boxing, yet his traveller background means he is still not considered to be “one of us”. The British love a rags to riches story, the more humble the...
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How a sugar company taught me to read
The New Statesman's special correspondent tells us how it was luck, as much as effort, that allowed him to overcome his dyslexia.*/ My biggest regret in life is that I never found out what happened at...
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The evidence of George Osborne's catastrophic failure is clearer than ever
The Chancellor has not delivered the high-wage economy he promised. Last summer David Cameron and George Osborne promised they would make Britain a “high wage, low tax, low welfare” economy. But less...
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“All the Bengalis will only vote for you”: Zac Goldsmith’s ridiculous...
Jette Ga! (He Will Win). Zac Goldsmith’s London mayoral campaign now has a music video. The song, produced by the Tory organisation Conservative Connect, is called Jette Ga! (He Will Win). And it...
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A turning point for rock and roll? Why 1971 was pivotal
1971: Never a Dull Moment by David Hepworth reveals the year when the singer-songwriter overtook the band - and record shops learnt to market cool.“At least they can play their instruments.” Trevor...
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How Donald Trump is legitimising torture
Trump is willing to trample on a quarter of a millennium of moral thinking and democratic taboos on torture. Donald Trump is unusually attached to the language of state violence. He rages about...
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What a ten-year-old book tells us about the campaigns of today
Zac Goldsmith won't be the last politician to try his hand at a spot of crude targeting - but he might be the last one not to get away with it. In 2007, Mark Penn was hailed as a visionary after the...
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Labour's McDonald's ban is virtue signalling of the worst kind
It may feel very principled to turn down an exhibition booking, but that’s not how Party staff who are being laid off will see it. The Labour Party risks cutting off its nose to spite its face with...
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A hundred and fifty feet above Hyde Park is a scene of glory and bloodlust
An email arrives from my contact at English Heritage. Would I like to go up to the top of the Wellington Memorial arch on Thursday? Of course I would. An email arrives from my contact at English...
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Swapping Neil MacGregor for Hartwig Fischer: why we need more Anglo-German...
As Britain contemplates leaving the EU, we need culture to erode the borders and stereotypes that divide and isolate. German art historian Hartwig Fischer has just started his new job as director of...
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The outrageous sexism on The Island with Bear Grylls might be what makes it a...
The strength of this show is that it uses ordinary people to create a microcosm that reveals the cracks and strains in our society.The Island with Bear Grylls has been no stranger to sexism...
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