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Did we double-cross the Arabs?
- Peter Mansfield
- 27 September 2007
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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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Politics and the pound
- G D H Cole
- 30 August 2007
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Taken from The New Statesman 29 August 1931
In August 1931, the Great Depression precipitated a crisis that led to the collapse of the second Labour government and the creation of a national coalition. The UK departed from the Gold Standard, ended free trade and cut welfare benefits. The New Statesman’s editor, Kingsley Martin, and G D H Cole, its writer on political economy, wrote a joint article to assess the left’s accusation that Labour’s loss of office had been due to a bankers’ conspiracy.
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Mini-politics: saying no in public
- Suzanne Moore
- 16 August 2007
From our archive Suzanne Moore on the miniskirt's comeback in late eighties
The Seventh Veil
- 09 August 2007
Taken from The New Statesman 28 September 1957
This affectionate portrait of A J P Taylor was written anonymously by
one of his students, David Marquand, who went on to enjoy a highly successful career as a Labour MP, political writer and academic. Taylor was a brilliant Oxford historian and one of Britain’s earliest television personalities. For many years he contributed waspish book reviews to the New Statesman. He was also a polemical journalist whose columns upset more fastidious colleagues.
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Germany and the crisis
- 02 August 2007
Taken from The New Statesman 1 August 1914
The outbreak of the Great War in August 1914 was badly timed for this magazine’s production schedules. Prompted by Austria’s ultimatum to Serbia following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on 28 June 1914, the New Statesman’s Berlin correspondent sent this anonymous despatch. He wrongly thought that Germany was working to prevent a war. By the time his piece was being read, hostilities had begun.
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The freedom of the BBC
- E M Forster
- 26 July 2007
Taken from The New Statesman 4 April 1931
The independent, autonomous but state-financed British Broadcasting Corporation has often come under attack for left-wing bias ever since it was established in 1927. Too often, the BBC has succumbed to such pressure, as when its coverage of the Soviet Union in the interwar years aroused criticism from the political right and commercial interests. The suggestion was that it was being run by a liberal, fellow-travelling elite.
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