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Anarchists and Communists in Spain
- H N Brailsford
- 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
The New Utopia
- Thomas Balogh
- 26 March 2007
The New Statesman's reaction to the creation of the European Economic Community from 30 March 1957
Drink
- Sidney Webb
- 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
A view of Ghana
- Kingsley Martin
- 12 March 2007
The New Statesman 19 October 1957
Ghana has been celebrating the 50th anniversary of its independence.
Sleazing along
- Gordon Brown
- 05 March 2007
How the future chancellor, Gordon Brown, once defended public enterprises from privatisation
A low, dishonest decade
- W H Auden
- 26 February 2007
A selection of poems W H Auden wrote for the New Statesman during the Thirties
Picked up on the picket line
- Denis MacShane
- 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
Britain and the Nuclear Bombs
- J B Priestley
- 12 February 2007
How an article in the New Statesman written by JB Priestley led to the creation of CND
Sex, snobbery and sadism
- Paul Johnson
- 05 February 2007
The New Statesman 5 April 1958
Ian Fleming invented his hero James Bond just over 50 years ago. Agent 007 rapidly became one of the icons of his age – a suave, handsome, amoral, patriotic intelligence officer. Today’s commercial success of the new Bond film, Casino Royale, suggests he retains enormous popularity. But as the then left-wing journalist Paul Johnson argued in 1958, Bond was always little more than a crypto-fascist.
Selected by Robert Taylor
Trotsky in Mexico
- Kingsley Martin
- 29 January 2007
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How former New Statesman editor Kingsley Martin went to Mexico to interview Trotsky in 1937
