This is such a brave, powerful and important The New Statesman cover story by Hannah Barnes. So many women have suffered, and will suffer, needlessly. So many traumatic births were avoidable. The UK can do better, women deserve so much better.
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This week’s cover story: The trauma ward by Hannah Barnes

Inside:
• Peter Ricketts: The UK must stop arming Israel
• Anoosh Chakelian: How Britain legalised crime
• Andrew Marr: Labour’s foreign policy factory

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In Britain, “Our bedside tables are buckling under the weight of our essential parenting literature, and yet our children are fragile and unhappy and prone to acting out.”

📖 Book of the Day: Sophie McBain on How to Raise a Viking by Helen Russell
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“High-quality universal childcare is both a social good ­and essential social infrastructure that is as vital to the proper running of a country as roads or internet cables.”

📖 Book of the Day: Sophie McBain on How to Raise a Viking by Helen Russell
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🎉 The Weight of Nature: Join neuroscientist Clayton Page Aldern as he discusses how the climate crisis is affecting our bodies as well as the planet with the New Statesman’s Sophie McBain at Cambridge Literary Festival on 21 April.

Use the code NSDIGITAL24 for 20% off tickets

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🎉 The Balanced Brain: Join neuroscientist Camilla Nord as she provides a new perspective on mental health with the New Statesman’s Sophie McBain at Cambridge Literary Festival on 18 April.

Use the code NSDIGITAL24 for 20% off tickets

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In The New Statesman’s Morning Call Will Dunn is yet again showing why he is the only writer who will always tempt me to read say 4000 words on tax

Here is a beautiful review of The Anxious Generation, by Sophie McBain, in The Guardian. Thank you Sophie:

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“Maybe we ought to start thinking more about all the things we didn’t look at, all the people we didn’t speak to, all the thoughts we didn’t allow ourselves to finish, because we were glued to our stupid smartphones” Reviewed Jonathan Haidt for The Guardian amp.theguardian.com/books/2024/mar…

Are you parent of baby born at 22-24w gestation?

Interested in speaking to Guardian journalist Sophie McBain about experiences for piece about so-called 'grey zone' of viability

How can we improve survival, make better decisions when to offer active care? DM me or Sophie McBain

I had a lovely time talking to Sophie McBain about books on hallucinations for Five Books

“Professor Paranoia” on what works in psychiatry, and why he’s getting his patients to wear virtual reality headsets.

🎤 Sophie McBain talks to Daniel Freeman

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Book of the Day: “Within a few pages of Is it Ever Just Sex? the reader will understand that the answer to the title question is an emphatic no.”

Sophie McBain reviews the psychoanalyst Darian Leader’s latest book. newstatesman.com/culture/books/…

This is one of the most awe-inspiring and gorgeous pieces I've read in a long time theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

A writing hack no one talks about (or is it just me?) is putting your crap first draft into a fancier font so that you're less paralysed by your own feelings of inadequacy (pro tip: start with calibri so you give yourself room to grow)

A sad week at the The New Statesman and thanks to the brilliant New Statesman and NSMG Union reps for their dedicated representation of talented colleagues:

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FINALLY!!!

The chickenpox vaccine should be introduced on the NHS and given to children in two doses at age 12 months and 18 months, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) said. bit.ly/3QKQBfk

I always think about why the monkey -> man illustrations always show a dude.

How women were left out of the story of evolution

Sophie McBain 🙏🏻

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