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Lembit - more interesting than PR

The Lib Dem MP is to marry his Cheeky Girl - as announced in Hello

Fantasy mayor

The launch of newstatesman.com's Fantasy Mayor game. Find out which candidate most closely matches your views

The campaign goes on

£1 million in government funding is a small but significant victory for Rape Crisis

If I were Tory leader and other matters

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  • 01 December 2007

Goldsmith, the Greens, Miss World, Water Wars plus if one was given the opportunity to rule...

Bad language

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  • Posted by Ben Davies
  • 25 November 2007

The strange thing about language, the anniversary of the death of Litvinenko, elections in Australia and Nick Clegg's aunt and the rest

newstatesman.com commended at award ceremony

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  • 16 November 2007

How newstatesman.com was runner up at a prestigious awards ceremony plus a far from quiet American in Italy...

Advice for Gordon...

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  • 02 November 2007

What should the Prime Minister do now? Send us your ideas

Kirst when it comes to TV talent

A nomination, a load of new content and the perils of indulging in nepotism

Boris Johnson. We're delighted...

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  • Posted by Ben Davies
  • 27 September 2007

newstatesman.com's campaign to help the Conservative Party with its London mayoral primary sees Boris Johnson victorious ... for now

Take that Marks and Spencers...

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  • 21 September 2007

A one-man consumer boycott, Tony Benn, Zac Goldsmith, the BBC cat and other issues...

The Spectator - they're giving it away

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  • Posted by Ben Davies
  • 06 September 2007

A surprise subscription, visiting the homeland and more on being posh...

Boris Johnson and the lefty conspiracy

Plots and intrigue at Terminal House plus Clarissa Dickson-Wright and much more

The devil may care

Satanism, Father Ted, the London Mayoral race and other matters

Shark-infested waters

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  • 03 August 2007

Holding a steady course through summer silliness

Goodbye Ulrich Mühe

The Lives of Others really is one of the best films I've seen in years

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Ben Davies trained as a journalist after taking most of the 1990s off. Prior to joining the New Statesman he spent five years working as a politics reporter for the BBC News website. He lives in North London.

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The campaign goes on

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If I were Tory leader and other matters

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  • 01 December 2007

Bad language

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newstatesman.com commended at award ceremony

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