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Scotland - nation or state?
- 30 April 2007
The New Statesman 12 December 1975 Scotland may soon celebrate the 300th anniversary of its Act of Union with England by making the Scottish National Party the largest force in the regional assembly. Thirty-two years ago, after Harold Wilson's Labour government in London embraced devolution, the New Statesman's staff writer Christopher Hitchens took Scotland's feverish temperature. His despatch on the mood north of the border was premature, but it may yet prove prophetic. Selected by Robert Taylor
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France and Britain
- 23 April 2007
Taken from the New Statesman 13 September 1947 Whoever wins this spring's presidential election, France's historically awkward relations with Britain are unlikely to be transformed for the better. Richard Crossman, the Labour MP and then assistant editor of the New Statesman, highlighted some of the emotions that have clouded the entente cordiale: the familiar English disdain towards Gallic ways, as well as the French contempt mingled with envy for a neighbour seen as too servile to the US. Selected by Robert Taylor
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Intellectuals, society and the left
- 16 April 2007
An article by Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm provides valuable insight into how he saw society in the late seventies
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Anarchists and Communists in Spain
- 09 April 2007
NS editor Kingsley Martin rejected George Orwell's account of Communist suppression of the Barcelona anarchist uprising but allowed HN Brailsford's more neutral report
Europe
The New Utopia
- 26 March 2007
The New Statesman's reaction to the creation of the European Economic Community from 30 March 1957
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Drink
- 19 March 2007
The New Statesman 14 April 1917 Fabian Sidney Webb calls for the liquor trade to be nationalised amid fears working class drinking was hampering the war effort
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A view of Ghana
- 12 March 2007
The New Statesman 19 October 1957 Ghana has been celebrating the 50th anniversary of its independence.
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Sleazing along
- 05 March 2007
How the future chancellor, Gordon Brown, once defended public enterprises from privatisation
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A low, dishonest decade
- 26 February 2007
A selection of poems W H Auden wrote for the New Statesman during the Thirties
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Picked up on the picket line
- 19 February 2007
The New Statesman 15 July 1977 Denis MacShane, former minister for Europe and Labour MP for Rotherham, is a prominent critic of the Metropolitan Police inquiry into the cash-for-peerages scandal. Thirty years ago, on the eve of becoming president of the National Union of Journalists, he was himself the subject of police attention: he was arrested on two different picket lines in the same month. Selected by Robert Taylor
