🇬🇧 UK Jul 3, 2026 · Finn McRedmond

Taylor Swift, American manipulator-in-chief

New Statesman UK
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The same woman who sang “take me to the Lakes where all the poets went to die”, can – from the bottom of her artificial heart – sing of sex with her fiancé, “Redwood tree, it ain’t hard to see / His love was the key that opened my thighs”. And yet, these are the vast gradations contained within Taylor Swift. A fractured, splintered woman who once anxiously asked her muse, “would it be enough if I could never give you peace?” and is now marrying another one in Madison Square Garden, about the mos

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