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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4 days ago |
newstatesman.com | Rachel Cunliffe
Holyrood by-elections don’t usually make headline news in Westminster – but pay attention to what happens on Thursday.
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1 week ago |
newstatesman.com | Rachel Cunliffe
Labour MPs have a lot to be depressed about. The euphoria as more than 400 of them swept into parliament in July dissipated at a speed as historic as their election win.
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1 week ago |
newstatesman.com | Rachel Cunliffe
Less than a year since the last election, the contours of the next one are beginning to take shape. At least, that’s what Nigel Farage would like you to think. The Reform press conference on Tuesday, perfectly timed to achieve maximum coverage over a quiet and rainy recess, has set out how Farage wants to play to the next four years.
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2 weeks ago |
thetimes.com | Rachel Cunliffe
Horace has always been the hero of the Classics classroom. For teachers, his intricate use of the Latin language makes him an ideal lesson in grammar and poetry - so much so that he was adopted into the curriculum almost within his lifetime and has remained there, give or take, for the intervening 2,000 years. For students, his often downright filthy choice of subject matter is in some instances (including this reviewer's) their reason for wanting to study Classics at all.
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2 weeks ago |
newstatesman.com | Rachel Cunliffe
When does a commoner become a nobleman? Michael Gove entered the House of Lords, bedecked in ermin, just after 11 this morning as an ex-MP, two-time (failed) leadership candidate, and lately editor of the Spectator magazine. He emerged less than five minutes later as all of those things still, but as first and foremost Baron Gove of Torry, in the city of Aberdeen. The Lords does pageantry in a way the Commons can only dream of, a wonderous juxtaposition of mundanity and tradition.
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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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