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    We live in a world where as many people have instantaneous access to porn as to clean water. At peak times, close to a tenth of internet traffic is devoted to streaming adult content. But while porn has quietly taken over the world, it…

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    The summer just passed was the hottest on record. Next year, the scientists predict, will be even hotter. And what will happen between these two infernos? Respite? Wrong. More extreme weather. Storms, droughts, and floods will sweep the…

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  • China's history is on the table

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    Fuchsia Dunlop has dedicated much of her life to eating Chinese food. If you’re interested in Chinese cuisine and culture, you may have come across her through television programmes, heard her on the radio, or cooked one of her…

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    Alexei Sayle has never much cared for a conventional view of the world. Born in 1950s Liverpool to committed communist parents, he was named after Maxim Gorky - real name Alexei Maximovich Peshkov. Dyed-in-the-wool Marxism, in other words…

  • Is Trump a Russian asset?

    August 19, 2026 · 57 min

    In 2011, Luke Harding was ordered to leave Russia - the first Western journalist to be exiled since the fall of the Soviet Union. As the Guardian's senior correspondent, he continued to watch Russia from afar, covering WikiLeaks, Edward…

  • Is Britain a liberal country?

    August 12, 2026 · 42 min

    Most people would say that Britain is, by and large, a liberal country. Individuals have the freedom to express their individual beliefs, others are expected to accept this difference in opinion with a certain level of tolerance. Our…

  • The man who sold the World Cup

    August 5, 2026 · 34 min

    For ten years Gianni Infantino has run FIFA more or less unchallenged - cosying up to Putin, the Saudis, and above all Trump, and turning the World Cup into the most commercially aggressive tournament the sport has ever seen.  Then a few…

  • What the hell is going on on the British right?

    July 29, 2026 · 47 min

    For decades, hell, even centuries, there’s only been one show in town for the British right - the Conservative Party. But now, as the British electoral system complains and convulses and shudders and shrieks, a right-wing party has been…

  • How will history remember Keir Starmer?

    July 22, 2026 · 50 min

    Keir Starmer is no longer prime minister, Andy Burnham is.  What just happened? Why did it happen? And what now?  Oli Dugmore is joined by the New Statesman's editor-in-chief Tom McTague for a Starmer retrospective. Hosted on Acast. See…

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Oli Dugmore and New Statesman journalists confront the most influential voices of our time in extended one-on-one interviews. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.