Rachel Cunliffe
Associate Political Editor at The New Statesman
Associate Political Editor @NewStatesman. Devout classicist, "indulgent editrix", at one point the only Ancient Greek teacher in South Korea
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2 weeks ago |
newstatesman.com | Rachel Cunliffe
What does your liver sound like? How about your kidneys, or your lungs? We’re thinking here not of the bodily squelch of fluids mixing or air pumping, but of music. What if our organs – or, rather, our relationship to them – could be composed into a symphony? This is the type of project that can only be found on BBC Radio 4. The presenter and sound designer Maia Miller-Lewis spoke to five people, each with a unique relationship to one vital organ.
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2 weeks ago |
newstatesman.com | Rachel Cunliffe
The day before the local elections really isn’t the time or the leader of the opposition to fade into the background. Yet somehow, this is exactly what Kemi Badenoch managed to do in today’s PMQs.Last week, Badenoch got to lead on her favourite political topic thanks to the Supreme Court ruling on single-sex spaces and the legal definition of a woman.
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2 weeks ago |
newstatesman.com | Rachel Cunliffe
The real competition as far as Labour and the Conservatives are concerned this week, with Thursday’s local elections looming, is not about winning votes or council seats but lowering expectations. Neither of the two main parties is going to have a particularly fun night.
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3 weeks ago |
newstatesman.com | Rachel Cunliffe
For both Conservative and Labour strategists, the notion of the 49-day Prime Minister offering Nigel Farage and his party tips ahead of the local elections might seem like the first bit of good news they’ve had in a while. Truss has reportedly been sharing her wisdom not on winning elections, but on how Reform can take on the “establishment blob” which, she argues to anyone who will listen, sabotaged her time in office.
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3 weeks ago |
newstatesman.com | Rachel Cunliffe
Had you been wandering around the village of Rocester, Staffordshire, on 10 April, you might have noticed a crowd gathering at the JCB factory. Nigel Farage, draped with the obligatory hi-vis vest, was there to whip up support for Reform UK, which is fielding candidates in all 62 seats on Staffordshire County Council on 1 May. “Reform will fix it,” Farage told the crowd, repeating the party’s slogan for these local elections. The location was no coincidence.
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"I’d always seen the darkness in his work, but taken it for granted that whatever had been blended up to produce tales interwoven with sexual violence came from a place of compassion. That you could trust him." On Neil Gaiman, the idol of my adolescence. https://t.co/DlHTZJkzJa
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