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The initial headline-grabbing pledges to phase out single use plastic may have become old news, but the new normal is seeing hundreds of companies quietly advance their plastic reduction strategies One of the many...




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Hot Pockets Heiress, Michelle Janavs, Was Sentenced To 5 Months In Prison In College Admissions Scandal
NBC News says that another affluent person has been sentenced in the College Admissions Scandal. It’s been almost a year since we all learned the shocking news that rich privileged assholes use their wealth to...

Letter of the Week: In defence of Twitter
A selection of the best letters received from our readers this week. Email letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine. Having read the negative comments about Twitter in Peter Wilby’s First Thoughts (7 February) and Guy de la Bédoyère’s letter (Correspondence, 21 February), I would like to defend the social media platform and point out that Twitter is what you make it. It is...




