Bright's Blog: NS investigates

Writing on the Guardian's website, Roy Greenslade has picked up on the New Statesman Investigates feature and wishes us luck.

Readers have voted overwhelmingly for an investigation into the asylum system. This has come as something of a surprise but it seems that asylum campaigners have adopted the poll with enthusiasm.

There are important lessons to learn from this exercise, including making sure that we define very clearly ... read more

In recent years the New Statesman has developed an unrivalled reputation for investigative journalism. Whether it was Stephen Gray's revelations about CIA rendition flights, Martin Bright's string of stories exposing the link between the Foreign Office's and radical Islamists or Chris Ames's work on the government's notorious dossier on weapons of mass destruction, the NS has a trackrecord of being there first.

Now we want to get you involved.

One Friday afternoon shortly before the 2005 election, pol itical journalists from the Sunday newspapers received a call from Labour's high command telling them to get to the party's Victoria Street headquarters as quickly as possible. They were ushered into a conference room, where they found Alastair Campbell, the party's former communications chief, attired in polo shirt and shorts and armed with a dossier for each reporter present. The über-spinner ... read more