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Ten must-read blogs Jimmy Mubenga: What kind of society can treat the death of an immigrant so casually?
Last month, an inquest jury of seven men and three women returned a majority verdict that Jimmy Mubenga was unlawfully killed during a deportation. By Symeon Brown The Westminster you don't see
For most people, when they think of Westminster they think of Parliament, Downing Street, and the Royal Courts of Justice. But in reality, the borough strongly resembles a microcosmic example of the north-south social divide. By Rayhan Uddin David Cameron's great childcare con
This isn't just bad news for parents and children, it's bad news for the economy too, says Sharon Hodgson. By Sharon Hodgson Why is the colour blue like arguments on Twitter?
Instead of throwing around words like "mansplaining", we should try to understand each other's experiences - which are as unique as our individual perception of colours. By Alex Andreou The Bot Wars: or why you can never buy concert tickets online
Enterprising programmers are creating bots that can reserve, and in some cases buy, everything from restaurant tables to eBay goods before humans can even get a look in. Where will the bot wars end? By Cal Flyn Winged messengers: The precarious lives of birds
That we can see reverence for birds as old-fashioned or sentimental is merely another indicator of our own outmoded thinking with regard to human success, writes John Burnside.
By John Burnside Lez Miserable: Unleashing your inner aggro-dyke
Aggro-dyke is more than "angry lesbian". It's a smarter, more subtle concept.
By Eleanor Margolis We still don't really know how bicycles work
Forget mysterious dark matter and the inexplicable accelerating expansion of the universe; the bicycle represents a far more embarrassing hole in the accomplishments of physics.
By Michael Brooks Johnny Depp characterising critics as all-powerful movie slayers is pure delusion
With newspapers laying off arts writers, the suggestion The Lone Ranger has been ruined by dishonest reviewers seems paradoxical. Perhaps there are other reasons behind the blockbuster's US flop? By By Ryan Gilbey Doctor Who: Peter Capaldi will be a Doctor of gravitas and steel
One of the joys of Doctor Who is that the actor isn't limited by their human characteristics - Capaldi won't have to play the Doctor as a 55-year-old man, because, you know, he isn't.
By Tom Phillips The New Statesman Century
The New Statesman Century celebrates one hundred years of the finest cultural and political commentary written in the English-speaking world. This perfect-bound, 244-page collector's edition of the magazine brings together a selection of work from former New Statesman contributors including George Bernard Shaw, Virginia Woolf, Edward Said, Rebecca West and Julian Barnes. This limited edition of the New Statesman is now available. Click here to buy a copy now (UK). For order of multiple copies or for overseas delivery contact Stephen Brasher by email or on 44 0207 936 6459. 
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