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Brave new world
- Geoffrey Goodman
- 08 November 2007
- 1 comment
Taken from The New Statesman 17 January 1959
Britain’s first nuclear power station opened on the Cumberland coast nearly half a century ago. Soon after its arrival, Geoffrey Goodman, then a correspondent on the News Chronicle, wrote this insightful article on its social significance in the New Statesman. He shows how the new breed of graduate scientists and technocrats, and the more traditional group of manual workers, also vital to nuclear energy’s success, were coming to terms with one another.
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D H Lawrence as I knew him
- Frieda Lawrence
- 01 November 2007
Taken from The New Statesman 13 August 1955
D H Lawrence, one of Britain's most controversial writers, was only 44 when he died from tuberculosis in 1930. His widow, Frieda, lived for another 26 years but her husband, a man she once described as "lonely, uncompromising and fearless", dominated her thoughts for the rest of her life. In this review of Harry T Moore's biography The Intelligent Heart written for the New Statesman a year before her own death, Frieda pays poignant tribute to Lawrence's memory.
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A note on ‘Darkness at Noon’
- Arthur Koestler
- 25 October 2007
Koestler's afterword on his Darkness at Noon
Being prohibited
- Doris Lessing
- 18 October 2007
Taken from The New Statesman 21 April 1956
Doris Lessing, who has just won the Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 87, wrote for this magazine for half a century. In this wry article, she describes how she was banned in 1956 from entering the apartheid South Africa, a country she was not allowed to visit for the next 39 years. The ostensible reason for refusing her entry was not her association with the Communist Party, but that she was born in Persia, and therefore deemed to be an “Asiatic”
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The man who can't be wrong
- J P W Mallalieu
- 11 October 2007
Taken from The New Statesman5 May 1956
The Parliamentary Labour Party used to contain many more idealistic and independent characters than it does today. One of the most prominent was Sydney Silverman. Although he never held government office, he will always be remembered for his long and single-minded campaign that led to the 1965 suspension of capital punishment. In this friendly portrait, his fellow Labour MP J P W Mallalieu paid homage to a legendary figure.
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Burma - free and socialist
- Dorothy Woodman
- 04 October 2007
- 4 comments
Taken from The New Statesman 28 February 1948
Did we double-cross the Arabs?
- Peter Mansfield
- 27 September 2007
- 3 comments
From our archive - 40 years on from the Balfour Declaration
The spirit of Che Guevara
- I F Stone
- 20 September 2007
Taken from The New Statesman 20th October, 1967
Next month marks the 40th anniversary of Che Guevara’s execution at the hands of the CIA and the Bolivian army. The 39-year-old Che was, at the time of his death, already an icon and a legend to a generation of young, revolutionary romantics across the world. But this incisive appraisal by the radical American journalist I F Stone recognised that, while Che’s influence would be lasting, his commitment to change through violence was perilous to his cause.
Can the army be controlled?
- Fred Halliday
- 13 September 2007
Taken from The New Statesman 2nd February, 1979
The overthrow of the Shah of Iran in that country’s January 1979 revolution and the resulting emergence of a Shia Islamic state was one of the most important events of the late 20th century. Fred Halliday, now a professor at the London School of Economics, made an initial assessment of the new power in Iran. Although he overestimated the Iranian army’s importance as a countervailing force, Halliday provided an insightful analysis of the Shia theocracy.
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When the kidding had to stop
- Alan Watkins
- 06 September 2007
Taken from The New Statesman 6th September 1968
This coming week, Gordon Brown will address the annual Trades Union Congress (TUC). The trade union movement is no longer the mighty force it once was. In 1968, when Alan Watkins, as this magazine’s political correspondent, travelled to Blackpool to cover the centenary TUC, union leaders were powerful enough to threaten the Labour government. But, as Watkins discerned, the alliance between unions and Labour was already starting to fray.
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