Peter Tatchell: “It’s important the left doesn’t resort to the methods of the right”
The human rights campaigner reflects on cancel culture and life as an activist.
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The human rights campaigner reflects on cancel culture and life as an activist.
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Jess Phillips speaking openly about contracting HPV is admirable, but why is there stigma still attached to the virus?
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Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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The evidence suggests that the Delta and Gamma variants are more dangerous for everyone, including young people.
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Two new books argue politics is too often arrogantly distant from the things that really matter.
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In the 19th century Garibaldi united a divided country. Today’s polarised politics could benefit from his pragmatic idealism.
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In his new book Seven Ways to Change the World, the former prime minister achieves a fluency in prose…
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Anthro-Vision by Tett, Napoleon: A Life in Gardens and Shadows by Scurr, The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock by White and Red…
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Why the artist was hailed by Aaron Burr as “the first painter that now is or ever has been…
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The pandemic has destroyed countless community and public assets, but the power of local identity remains vital to our recovery.…
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Fifty years on, the record still feels like a puff of air between your ribs.
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Recorded on location at the RSPB Strumpshaw Fen, the programme is peppered with birdsong and the buzz of grasshoppers, giving…
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In this tedious and excruciating film, Sharon Horgan and James McAvoy play a warring couple trapped together in lockdown.
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A well-meaning scientist with an interest in mushrooms travels to a remote ecological centre in the aftermath of an…
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As free-market globalisation recedes, countries from the US to the UK to China are embracing national capitalism.
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Four years ago these two eminent scientists bet on the likelihood of a man-made global biological disaster. Is it…
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How the US and Russia became entangled.
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The French novelist reflects on the work of Nelson Mandela, being painted by Chagall and 18th century French literature.
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Why the round-the-clock helpline is a false economy.
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This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s Richard II, refers to the whole of Britain…
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There are more bees in the garden than I have ever seen before, more butterflies, more moths, more everything.
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A sprightly step and a fairly steep downhill slope, and what do you get? A fall.
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Tillingham’s has the pleasant sourness of grapefruit, Little Waddon gushes pear juice, and if the Black Mountain was too…
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For defenders of the industry, it is the genetic link that matters, not the long months of pregnancy that…
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What came out of the talks was a cluster of middling commitments, rehashed versions of older ideas, unfunded aspirations…
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An issue as complex and sensitive as the Northern Ireland protocol won’t get fixed during a weekend in Cornwall.
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Since last summer I have loitered with intent in Switzerland, Sicily and Greece. Am I a modern-day Typhoid Mary?
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There is appetite in the cabinet for having difficult conversations with the country on Covid – but some MPs fear this…
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After initially refusing to condemn the booing of players, this government appears to have realised that this is a team…
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The England manager understands the need for a patriotism that is generous and enhances national cohesion.
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A selection of the best letters received from our readers this week. Email [email protected] to have your thoughts voiced…
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The rapid spread of the Delta variant was not an inevitability but the result of the government’s failure to control…
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Recorded on location at the RSPB Strumpshaw Fen, the programme is peppered with birdsong and the buzz of grasshoppers, giving…
By
In this tedious and excruciating film, Sharon Horgan and James McAvoy play a warring couple trapped together in lockdown.
By
A well-meaning scientist with an interest in mushrooms travels to a remote ecological centre in the aftermath of an…
By
In his new book Seven Ways to Change the World, the former prime minister achieves a fluency in prose…
By
Anthro-Vision by Tett, Napoleon: A Life in Gardens and Shadows by Scurr, The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock by White and Red…
By
The French novelist reflects on the work of Nelson Mandela, being painted by Chagall and 18th century French literature.
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Jess Phillips speaking openly about contracting HPV is admirable, but why is there stigma still attached to the virus?
ByEmail [email protected] if you would like to be the New Statesman‘s Subscriber of the Week.
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Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
By
Why the round-the-clock helpline is a false economy.
By
For defenders of the industry, it is the genetic link that matters, not the long months of pregnancy that…
By
What came out of the talks was a cluster of middling commitments, rehashed versions of older ideas, unfunded aspirations…
By
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s Richard II, refers to the whole of Britain…
By
An issue as complex and sensitive as the Northern Ireland protocol won’t get fixed during a weekend in Cornwall.
By
There are more bees in the garden than I have ever seen before, more butterflies, more moths, more everything.
By
A sprightly step and a fairly steep downhill slope, and what do you get? A fall.
By
Since last summer I have loitered with intent in Switzerland, Sicily and Greece. Am I a modern-day Typhoid Mary?
By
Tillingham’s has the pleasant sourness of grapefruit, Little Waddon gushes pear juice, and if the Black Mountain was too…
By
There is appetite in the cabinet for having difficult conversations with the country on Covid – but some MPs fear this…
By
A selection of the best letters received from our readers this week. Email [email protected] to have your thoughts voiced…
By
The rapid spread of the Delta variant was not an inevitability but the result of the government’s failure to control…
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After initially refusing to condemn the booing of players, this government appears to have realised that this is a team…
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The ex-Congressman and convicted sex offender raises the question: can the commodification of shame really bring about ethical redemption?
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The evidence suggests that the Delta and Gamma variants are more dangerous for everyone, including young people.
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The England manager understands the need for a patriotism that is generous and enhances national cohesion.
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