4+ day, 21+ hour 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…...

5+ day, 6+ 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,…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (85+ words) Treating cohabiting couples like they’re married is a modern horror story New Statesman A new campaign group wants to offer couples the same rights whether or not they’ve tied the knot But those are matched by obligations – the big one…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (264+ words) Rachel Cusk’s Portmanteau novel New Statesman Rachel Cusk’s new novel, Life of M – a fictional portrait of a film star – could be seen as a professionalisation of the approach Cusk developed in her celebrated Outline trilogy (2014-18). In those novels, a…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (263+ words) newstatesman.com The National Lottery runs a game called “Set For Life” in which people can enter for a chance of winning £10,000 a month for the next 30 years. As with all lotteries, the chances are vanishingly small (you’d need to…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (176+ words) New Statesman Having grown up in the care system for more than half of her childhood, Kory identifies the milestones of her youth differently from most. Age nine was particularly hard: her time living in the homes of three different…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (121+ words) New Statesman The Church of England is dying. More than a third of congregants are over 70; in some dioceses that age group makes up more than half of worshippers. But as the Church ebbs, a reactionary, conspiratorial Christianity is rising…...