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Me and my monarch: Cyrus the Great of Persia
The real-life Daenerys? When history teachers fought back against Michael Gove’s 2013 attempt to limit the syllabus to an exercise in nationalism, it was global figures like Cyrus the Great – founder...
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Accountability, devolution and gun crime: lessons from a PCC
The West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner, David Jamieson, talks about his experience of the role. At 6pm on Thursday 21 August 2014, I walked to my local polling station, a small primary...
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Facebook’s trending topics scandal shows it’s a more reliable news source...
Removing a story that doesn't have three reliable outlets behind it? Sounds like a good idea to me Over the past couple of years, there have been a spate of celebrity death hoaxes online. Macaulay...
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Innovation and collaboration are the keys to a sustainable energy future
Technologies that once sounded futuristic now offer us hope of beating climate change. Electric Vehicles. Solar Powered Communities. Smart Appliances. At one time these technologies sounded like...
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Make Croatia great again: how fascism emerged in the EU’s youngest state
In the Croatian heartlands, economic decline has combined with fears over migration from the Middle East. On 14 May, thousands of Croatians gathered in a field in southern Austria to observe a Catholic...
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Why dissecting a frog explains nothing about life
Surely there's a better way to teach children to venerate life than the current biology curriculum? A while ago, my son asked me to help him with his biology homework. At first, as an O-level science...
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How Francis Bacon boldly thieved his signature image from Munch – and gave it...
A new exhibition at Tate Liverpool reveals how Bacon constructed his striking faces. The Waste Land was one of Francis Bacon’s favourite poems. A phrase from section 2, “A Game of Chess”, exactly...
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Has Alexei Sayle managed that rare thing – a smart, funny comedy memoir?
Despite its "zany" title, Thatcher Stole My Trousers is a provocative and original look back at Sayle's life. A few months ago, I was professionally obliged to ask a British comic actor about his...
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Mosquitoes on the march: how zika will spread across Europe
The saving grace for Europe and North America will be their relative affluence and greater levels of education. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that as the weather warms this summer, the...
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Why the Guardian's first priority is not profit, but to retain its character
From Kath Viner’s King Lear moment to shooting Meryl Streep’s latest turkey. When people who work for liberal institutions fall out, they do so in a big way. Because they believe themselves to be...
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Translated fiction is not a genre. Why do bookshops tell us it is?
Translated fiction is not a genre. It is illogical and unhelpful to suggest otherwise. For something often seen as a niche interest, translated fiction has been in the news a lot recently. Korean...
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The EU can help Europeans rediscover the ties that bind us
Europe is united by common values, but borders and boundaries are crucial too - writes a European Commission vice president. At the end of last year, at the height of the refugee crisis in Europe, I...
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How Moby's Porcelain reinvents the music memoir
Porcelain: a Memoir swerves around the tired tropes of most rock stories in a joyfully honest look at his life in the 1990s. The hard-knock upbringing, the excess, the dressing-room high jinks with...
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New Statesman Internet Histories Week 2016
Welcome to the New Statesman's internet histories week, a re-examination of the parts of our lives spent online. It’s easy to talk about the internet as though it’s an imaginary space, where the...
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A half decade of total secrecy: how I became a successful Harry Potter webmaster
Like all the scions of Harry Potter webmastery, I ruled with a gently fascist temperament. It’s 1999 and we’re in La Porte, Indiana. Emerson Spartz, a home schooled 12-year-old boy, has just launched...
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The year of the flop: why could none of the big-money clubs come close to...
Manchester United recorded record profits for the first quarter of 2016, yet never looked in contention for the Premier League. The fact that Leicester City won the Premier League title is a cause...
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Labour must learn to speak for England again
It is now easier for Labour to win a majority in England than in the UK as a whole. Labour needs to decide what it would want to do with that power. In 2015, English voters were scared that a weak...
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“Just try to be a real person”: James Fleet on doing Austen on screen
Ryan Gilbey talks to the actor James Fleet, who stars in Whit Stillman’s Love & Friendship – his third Austen film adaptation after Sense and Sensibility and Death Comes to Pemberley. In this...
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Home rule can help Scottish Labour rebuild
By changing its position on the union, Scottish Labour harmed its electoral chances. It needs a new clarity. There is no denying that the Scottish election result two was disastrous for Scottish...
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How to make a decision on the EU referendum
Reliable evidence and risk assessments should guide the public in the build up to next month's vote. Whatever you may think about Mark Carney, the Governor of the Bank of England (BoE), he gave a very...
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