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Society
Mr Wilson's Irish question
- 03 July 2006
Taken from the New Statesman archive, 6 December 1974. Two weeks after the Birmingham pub bombings, Roy Jenkins's Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Bill was passing swiftly through a shocked parliament. Holland's qualms about the legislation have considerable resonance today, and many of the "draconian" measures involved, far from being temporary, remain in force. Selected by Brian Cathcart
Life & Society
The hardness of water
- 26 June 2006
Taken from the New Statesman archive, 23 July 1976. The bound volumes of back numbers sometimes throw up an article from years ago that feels as though it could have been written yesterday. This is one of those. Besides the attitude of the Met Office not much seems to have changed, and Bugler's hope that we were being "parched for a purpose" in that famous year of drought seems to have been vain. Selected by Brian Cathcart
Society
Random reflections on sex
- 19 June 2006
Taken from the New Statesman archive, 23 August 1963. Even in 1963, it seems, commercialisation and psychological overcomplication were putting young men and women under unwelcome pressure when it came to sex, and Americans apparently bore a good share of responsibility. The "recent events" which prompted these thoughts, however, were British: the Profumo affair. Priestley (1894-1984) was a New Statesman contributor over several decades. Selected by Brian Cathcart
Life & Society
World Cup News
- 12 June 2006
Taken from the New Statesman archive, 8 July 1966. Scepticism about the England manager on the one hand, versus pride in the players on the other; terror of Brazil on the one hand and a desperate confidence on the other: such were the eve-of-contest issues 40 years ago. Keller’s hero Greaves, as any fule kno, didn’t play in the final. The unloved Ramsey picked Geoff Hurst instead, and Hurst scored three. - Brian Cathcart
Life & Society
News from Lord's
- 05 June 2006
Taken from the New Statesman archive, 16 August 1930. This appeared at a dramatic moment for English cricket, the eve of the fifth Test against Australia, in which Don Bradman’s prodigious batting clinched the series for the tourists. Sidney Barrington Gates (1893-1973), a distinguished scientist, wrote occasionally for the New Statesman. - Brian Cathcart
Society
The Milkman
- 29 May 2006
Taken from the New Statesman archive, 13 August 1976. This rather bleak portrait of professional contentment was one of a series of articles Mooney contributed in 1976 under the title "Familiar Figures", her other subjects including a roadsweeper and a BR steward. - Brian Cathcart
Society
Progress
- 22 May 2006
Taken from the New Statesman archive, 1 September 1945. Mass-Observation, the pioneering social research organisation, sprang out of a letter published in the New Statesman in 1936, written by Charles Madge and Humphrey Jennings, members of the artistic “Blackheath Group”. They were soon joined by the anthropologist Tom Harrisson, who had a poem in the same edition and whose name became most closely identified with the enterprise. This unsigned article appeared less than a month after Hiroshima. - Brian Cathcart
Society
The Tiny Sports Car
- 15 May 2006
Taken from the New Statesman archive, 3 August 1929. Davidson contributed a weekly motoring column to the New Statesman for a dozen years between the wars, and this example is typically brisk and manly. He liked speed and power, thought foreigners and women were often just as skilful behind the wheel as Englishmen, viewed driving tests as a waste of time, and believed every motorist should have a spacious garage. It seems that, since 1929, cars have changed rather more than motoring journalists. - Brian Cathcart
World Affairs
In Defence of N Khrushchev, Author
- 08 May 2006
Taken from the New Statesman archive, 9 April 1971. J K Galbraith, who died late last month in Massachusetts at the age of 97, was an occasional contributor to the New Statesman during the 1970s. - Brian Cathcart
Society
The Queen is crowned
- 01 May 2006
Taken from the New Statesman archive, 6 June 1953. Few countesses have written in these pages, but then the novelist and biographer Margaret Lane (1907-94) was an unusually literate one. Not all the readers liked her tone, one protesting: “Next time the New Statesman and Nation is tempted to scoff at the Russians’ banner-waving adulation of a Stalin or a Malenkov, let it re-read its own muffled-royalist lucubrations.” - Brian Cathcart
