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The Vagabond King
by Simon Akam + Follow
New Statesman | February 2012
When 25-year-old Valentine Strasser seized power in Sierra Leone in 1992, he became the world’s youngest head of state. Today he lives with his mother and spends his days drinking gin by the roadside. What went wrong?
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What a Tangled Web We Weave
by Robert Trivers + Follow
New Statesman | October 2011
From using euphemisms such as “collateral damage” to faking orgasms, we practise deception all the time. But in order to lie better to others, we must first fool ourselves.
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The Bugger, Bugged
by Hugh Grant + Follow
New Statesman | April 2011
After a chance meeting with a former News of the World executive who told him his phone had been hacked, Hugh Grant couldn’t resist going back to him – with a hidden tape recorder – to find out if there was more to the story...
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It’s Cool to be Conservative, Kids!
by Nina Burleigh + Follow
New Statesman | March 2011
A Sarah Palin impersonator, a man in a “big government” fat suit, Newt Gingrich’s presidential entrance and a 15-foot cardboard foetus: meet America’s reinvigorated right at its annual jamboree.
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Meditation Rescued Me From Misanthropy
by Tim Parks + Follow
New Statesman | July 2010
Religion is an easy target for atheists, but, as Tim Parks discovered, there’s no escaping that there’s more to life than rational thinking and the material world. He found the key on a Buddhist retreat in the countryside.
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The Many Faces of Fabio Capello
by Tim Adams + Follow
New Statesman | June 2010
Thirteen ways of looking at the England manager as he prepares his team for the World Cup –– from bibliophile to existentialist.
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Special Report: Sin and Be Happy
by Tim Parks + Follow
New Statesman | April 2006
As Italians prepare to go to the polls, the author Tim Parks identifies a ritualistic sparring that is destroying his adopted home and the country he loves.
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Subaquatic Homesick Blues
by Greil Marcus + Follow
New Statesman | September 2004
Is Melville’s Moby-Dick the ultimate American novel? Even today, it haunts a nation’s thoughts and dreams.
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The Altar of Fire
by Tim Parks + Follow
New Statesman | June 2003
In a world without faith or metaphysics, we need a grand illusion like the European Union. Even with all their prevarications and no-shows, the British cannot cheat us out of this latter-day castle in the sky.