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War-like Smurfs

  • 14 April 2008

Apparently many Olympic traditions date back to the Nazis...

What happened to the Famous Five?

  • 31 March 2008
  • 1 comment

The truth about Enid Blyton's most famous characters plus some tips for Lord Saville...

Talk of Britishness is so unbritish

  • 18 March 2008

Swearing allegiance, a collapsing mine and how a bootleg liquor stall ran into rocky ground

Chained to Nicholas Ridley

  • 04 March 2008

Ah the anti-road protests of the 1990s! Life became a heady cocktail of Just William and The Colditz Story, and I camped out all summer

Disappointing Virgin

  • 18 February 2008
  • 1 comment

The Northern Rock nationalisation, teasing Woy Jenkins and the happy story of the goose that loves Lucy

Remember the 1960s?

  • 04 February 2008
  • 4 comments

In his new fortnightly column, Liberal England's Jonathan Calder looks back on a lifetime of reading the New Statesman from the vantage point of the Stiperstones

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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