Ben's Blog
New Statesman website editor Ben Davies's weekly ramblings plus feedback on hot online topics
Lembit - more interesting than PR
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- Posted by Ben Davies
- 22 April 2008
The Lib Dem MP is to marry his Cheeky Girl - as announced in Hello
Fantasy mayor
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- Posted by Ben Davies
- 14 April 2008
The launch of newstatesman.com's Fantasy Mayor game. Find out which candidate most closely matches your views
The campaign goes on
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- Posted by Simon Hooper
- 19 March 2008
£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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- Posted by Ben Davies
- 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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- Posted by Ben Davies
- 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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- Posted by Simon Hooper
- 02 November 2007
What should the Prime Minister do now? Send us your ideas
Kirst when it comes to TV talent
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- Posted by Ben Davies
- 26 October 2007
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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- Posted by Ben Davies
- 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
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- Posted by Ben Davies
- 17 August 2007
Plots and intrigue at Terminal House plus Clarissa Dickson-Wright and much more
The devil may care
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- Posted by Ben Davies
- 10 August 2007
Satanism, Father Ted, the London Mayoral race and other matters
Shark-infested waters
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- Posted by Simon Hooper
- 03 August 2007
Holding a steady course through summer silliness
Goodbye Ulrich Mühe
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- Posted by Ben Davies
- 27 July 2007
The Lives of Others really is one of the best films I've seen in years


