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71-73 Carter Lane London EC4V 5EQ Tel 020 7936 6400 Subscription inquiries: Stephen Brasher sbrasher@ newstatesman.co.uk 0800 731 8496 Editor Jason Cowley Deputy Editor Helen Lewis Features Editor Xan Rice Culture Editor Tom Gatti Political Editor George Eaton Creative Editor Gerry Brakus Arts Editor Kate Mossman Assistant Editors Caroline Crampton Michael Prodger Special Correspondent Stephen Bush Contributing Editors Mehdi Hasan Laurie Penny Jemima Goldsmith Chief Sub-Editor Nana Yaa Mensah Sub-Editor Thomas Calvocoressi Production Editor Jill Chisholm Design Editor Leon Parks Editorial Assistant India Bourke Newstatesman.com Julia Rampen Anoosh Chakelian Stephanie Boland Anna Leszkiewicz Amelia Tait Pauline Bock CityMetric Editor Jonn Elledge Contributing Writers John Gray Rowan Williams Ed Smith John Bew Leo Robson Erica Wagner Shiraz Maher Sophie McBain Brendan Simms Martin Fletcher Yo Zushi Special Projects Editor Will Dunn Commercial Director Peter Coombs Online Production Cameron Sharpe Contents Free thinking since 1913 Sturgeon rolls the dice: will Brexit break up Britain? 22 War on Isis: Quentin Sommerville reports from Iraq 34 Up Front 3 Leader 10 Correspondence Columns 7 Peter Wilby on kinky boots, Oxford colleges and starring in fake news 9 Mehdi Hasan asks: what are the chances of impeaching Donald Trump? 21 Julie Burchill writes this week’s Diary 38 Helen Lewis finds the latest X-Men film strangely moving Observations 12 In the Picture 13 View from Cavriago: Max Paradiso The decline of Italy’s centre left 14 Commons Confidential: Kevin Maguire The pick of the best gossip from Westminster 16 Encounter: Barbara Speed The writer Andrew Solomon on identity, family and belonging 17 Ideas: Yo Zushi Can celebrities remain the stuff of dreams in the age of social media? 19 Newsmaker: Xan Rice How Eddie Jones, the England rugby coach, triumphed against the prevailing wisdom Articles 22 David Torrance says the next referendum is the SNP’s to lose 25 Douglas Alexander on whether the Union can be saved 27 George Eaton on Theresa May’s negotiating strategy 28 Emma Jacobs on the future of the gig economy 34 Quentin Sommerville reports from the front line in Mosul The Critics: Books 40 Andrew Marr finds a prescient guide to Britain’s new tribal divisions in The Road to Somewhere by David Goodhart 42 Melissa Benn on feminist manifestos by Jessa Crispin, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Catherine Mayer and Jess Phillips 44 The NS Poem “The News Reported She Wore Her Body to the Event” by Amy Key 45 Peter Wilby on Adrian Addison’s expletive-strewn history of the Daily Mail “Logan uses the devastating special effect we all get for free – time” Helen Lewis, page 38 The paper in this magazine originates from timber that is sourced from sustainable forests, responsibly managed to strict environmental, social and economic standards. The manufacturing mills have both FSC and PEFC certification and also ISO9001 and ISO14001 accreditation. 4 | NEW STATESMAN | 17-23 MARCH 2017
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71-73 Carter Lane London EC4V 5EQ Tel 020 7936 6400 Subscription inquiries: Stephen Brasher sbrasher@ newstatesman.co.uk 0800 731 8496

Editor Jason Cowley Deputy Editor Helen Lewis Features Editor Xan Rice Culture Editor Tom Gatti Political Editor George Eaton Creative Editor Gerry Brakus Arts Editor Kate Mossman Assistant Editors Caroline Crampton Michael Prodger Special Correspondent Stephen Bush Contributing Editors Mehdi Hasan Laurie Penny Jemima Goldsmith Chief Sub-Editor Nana Yaa Mensah Sub-Editor Thomas Calvocoressi Production Editor Jill Chisholm Design Editor Leon Parks Editorial Assistant India Bourke

Newstatesman.com Julia Rampen Anoosh Chakelian Stephanie Boland Anna Leszkiewicz Amelia Tait Pauline Bock

CityMetric Editor Jonn Elledge

Contributing Writers John Gray Rowan Williams Ed Smith John Bew Leo Robson Erica Wagner Shiraz Maher Sophie McBain Brendan Simms Martin Fletcher Yo Zushi

Special Projects Editor Will Dunn

Commercial Director Peter Coombs Online Production Cameron Sharpe

Contents Free thinking since 1913

Sturgeon rolls the dice: will Brexit break up Britain? 22 War on Isis: Quentin Sommerville reports from Iraq 34

Up Front

3 Leader 10 Correspondence

Columns

7 Peter Wilby on kinky boots, Oxford colleges and starring in fake news 9 Mehdi Hasan asks: what are the chances of impeaching Donald Trump? 21 Julie Burchill writes this week’s Diary 38 Helen Lewis finds the latest X-Men film strangely moving

Observations

12 In the Picture 13 View from Cavriago: Max Paradiso The decline of Italy’s centre left 14 Commons Confidential: Kevin Maguire The pick of the best gossip from Westminster 16 Encounter: Barbara Speed The writer Andrew Solomon on identity, family and belonging 17 Ideas: Yo Zushi Can celebrities remain the stuff of dreams in the age of social media? 19 Newsmaker: Xan Rice How Eddie Jones, the England rugby coach, triumphed against the prevailing wisdom

Articles

22 David Torrance says the next referendum is the SNP’s to lose 25 Douglas Alexander on whether the Union can be saved 27 George Eaton on Theresa May’s negotiating strategy 28 Emma Jacobs on the future of the gig economy 34 Quentin Sommerville reports from the front line in Mosul

The Critics: Books

40 Andrew Marr finds a prescient guide to Britain’s new tribal divisions in The Road to Somewhere by David Goodhart 42 Melissa Benn on feminist manifestos by Jessa Crispin, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Catherine Mayer and Jess Phillips 44 The NS Poem “The News Reported She Wore Her Body to the Event” by Amy Key 45 Peter Wilby on Adrian Addison’s expletive-strewn history of the Daily Mail

“Logan uses the devastating special effect we all get for free – time” Helen Lewis, page 38

The paper in this magazine originates from timber that is sourced from sustainable forests, responsibly managed to strict environmental, social and economic standards. The manufacturing mills have both FSC and PEFC certification and also ISO9001 and ISO14001 accreditation.

4 | NEW STATESMAN | 17-23 MARCH 2017

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