Tom Gatti
@Tom_Gatti
Executive editor, culture, books, ideas & print, New Statesman. Editor, Long Players: Writers on the Albums That Shaped Them (Bloomsbury) https://t.co/aihmqoAyKR
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http://www.newstatesman.com/culture 30-10-2011 19:33:02
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The FCO “is nothing short of a celebration of the British empire at its most powerful and racist”. Sathnam Sanghera newstatesman.com/comment/2024/0…
“A midwife appeared with some information they’d printed off. As I read it, I sobbed. I was 35 years old and thought my life was over.”
A personal, powerful, essential long read by Hannah Barnes on birth trauma – often dismissed, almost always devastating
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The triumph of Wishful Verbiage, in which aspiration trumps accuracy... by Armando Iannucci
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The review of my memoir, A Very Private School, from the current The New Statesman is by former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion - he suffered at the same school, a decade or so earlier than my classmates and I: newstatesman.com/culture/books/…
“This is the great triumph of Carrie, that King somehow knew about all the loathsome ways the anger of a teenage girl can warp and protrude.”
– Megan Nolan on Stephen King
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The The New Statesman Easter Special is here! Feat:
🩸Megan Nolan on Carrie
🗣️ Armando Iannucci on “wishful verbiage”
🏫 Andrew Motion on boarding school
💀 Anjana Ahuja on Immortality Inc
🎶 Ian Bostridge on Bach
🐦⬛ Helen Macdonald on the dawn chorus
+ much more
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Excellent reporting on the RSL row from Ellen Peirson-Hagger
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Brilliant piece by Oliver Eagleton on Jonathan White's 'In the Long Run: The Future as a Political Idea' newstatesman.com/culture/books/…
Fascinating by Anoosh Chakelian on how ITV News rebooted itself
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“This cohort, born between 1991 and 1999, came of age during a period of technological revolution, economic collapse and political resistance.”
Essential piece by Gary Younge on politics & UK rap, via Aniefiok 'Neef' Ekpoudom’s Where We Come From
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📔ALPHABETICAL DIARIES by Sheila Heti publishes today!📔 ‘Exhilarating: both intimate and withholding, repetitive and generative, undeniably self-centred and yet moving beyond the self.’ — anna leszkiewicz. Read an excerpt on our website: fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/alphabet…
Once feted for his showmanship, Ukraine’s president Zelensky has become plagued by corruption scandals and military failures.
🖊️ Lindsey Hilsum on Simon Shuster's Zelensky biography.
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... I am so honoured to be chairing what I know will be a remarkable event with Salman Rushdie discussing his extraordinary memoir, Knife.