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  • Posted by Martin Bright
  • 15 August 2008

Here they are: the best read articles on the blog. Feel free to read them again

Thanks to the wonders of Google and the New Statesman's peerless web team I can now reveal the articles that you readers have loved and loathed the best. Click on the links to be angered or soothed one more time.

1. The Great Betrayal
2. Hamas at Olympia
3. Wanted: New Thinking Pioneers
4. Unity Mitford and Hitler's Baby
5. When Marx Met Mill
6. Karadzic and Srebrenica
7. I Salute David Davis
8. Ingrid Betancourt: Who She?
9. Ken to Run in 2012
10. Hazel Blears and Islam Expo

Conspiracy theories, Israel and Palestine, war criminals from the former Yugoslavia, civil liberties, radical Islam, extreme-left guerillas in Latin America, Fascism historical and contemporary, Marxism, liberalism, New Labour ideology. All the great themes are here. If I'd mentioned scientology and global warming I'd have a full house.

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3 comments from readers

Jonny Mac
18 August 2008 at 16:40

Ah....memories...

Martin Bright
19 August 2008 at 08:25

I know. It seems like only yesterday

knave
28 August 2008 at 09:21

Of course, not forgetting.

Your exciting journey to the right, Martin

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Martin Bright

Martin Bright began his journalistic career writing in very simple English for a magazine aimed at French school children. This experience has informed his style ever since. He worked for the BBC World Service, and The Guardian before joining the Observer as Education Correspondent. He went on to become Home Affairs Editor before becoming the New Statesman's political editor in 2005.

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