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London's Australians have started cooking now
5+ day, 19+ min ago (165+ words) London’s Australians have started cooking now newstatesman.com Australia. Never been, not minded to. The wildlife alone could kill you, to borrow an old cliché about Terra Australis: box jellyfish, the funnel-web spider, the eastern brown snake. But this isn’t…...
Beer and Sandwiches: At The Angel Inn in Staffordshire
5+ day, 14+ min ago (81+ words) newstatesman.com Samuels was a frightening place, boasting one of the UK’s most incongruous dancing poles. But it had a semi-functioning pool table and that was good enough for us. Until the frankly remarkable quantity of dog poo on the…...
The Venice Biennale and the society of the spectacle
5+ day, 21+ min ago (329+ words) newstatesman.com Outside the sleek midcentury Nordic Pavilion in the centre of the Giardini della Biennale, a severed head made of raw untreated bronze is supported by a tripod of reinforced steel piles – like the stakes used to brace Venice’s…...
Phone-tracking parents are raising a generation of infantilised teens
5+ day, 1+ hour ago (142+ words) New Statesman My mother reads this column and I think this will be the first time she’s heard that story. Which is as it should be. As the relationship guru Dan Savage often says, there are some things parents have…...
Prince George starts at Eton and enters the belly of the beast
5+ day, 9+ hour ago (239+ words) New Statesman In Exodus, Moses is tending to his flock when a bush bursts into flames and God’s voice calls out from within its leaves. At Eton, the Burning Bush is an elaborate 19th-century lamppost sitting on a stone plinth,…...
Beer and Sandwiches: At the White Horse in East Yorkshire
1+ week, 4+ day ago (81+ words) New Statesman This column is our weekly pub review, written by pintsmen, women and children across the nation. Suggestions to [email protected] The wonderful thing about the White Horse (aka Nellies) in Beverley, East Yorkshire, is that you never know who…...
Jon Ronson's Lost Boys
1+ week, 4+ day ago (261+ words) Jon Ronson’s Lost Boys New Statesman At what point, I wonder as I turn the final page of The Castle, did the gonzo journalist Jon Ronson decide what his latest book was actually going to be about? Was it when…...
Pilates comes home
1+ week, 6+ day ago (124+ words) newstatesman.com It’s 2.40pm in a field on the Isle of Man and Noel Edmonds and Gimli from The Lord of the Rings (John Rhys-Davies) are attempting to break the world record for the largest ever Pilates class. The two men…...
This was the summer that optimisation died
2+ week, 15+ hour ago (202+ words) New Statesman In early June 2026, investor-influencer Stephen Bartlett lamented the loss of three days of his life. On an episode of his productivity podcast Diary of a CEO, he commiserated having drunk three glasses of wine. Though Bartlett “didn’t get…...
Scandinavia’s long, good nights
3+ week, 5+ day ago (298+ words) New Statesman Alain de Botton once wrote that sunshine “isn’t merely nice”, but “an agent of moral qualities”: generosity, courage, confidence. Perhaps it was once. But today, it seems rather more an agent of chaos and devastation. This summer, wildfires…...