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Britain and the Nuclear Bombs

  • 12 February 2007

How an article in the New Statesman written by JB Priestley led to the creation of CND

Sex, snobbery and sadism

  • 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

  • 29 January 2007
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How former New Statesman editor Kingsley Martin went to Mexico to interview Trotsky in 1937

The German Pursuit of Law and Order

  • 22 January 2007

Melanie Phillips in her radical days in a selection by Robert Taylor from the New Statesman archive from July 1975

Letter to a Parent of a British soldier in Palestine

  • 15 January 2007

Taken from the New Statesman archive, 16 August 1947

The Lung-Hai Railway in War-time

  • 08 January 2007

Taken from the New Statesman archive, 16 July 1938

Notes for 1964

  • 18 December 2006

Brian Cathcart's seasonal selection from the New Statesman archive is a grumpy JB Priestley looking forward to 1964

An African on African Life

  • 11 December 2006

Brian Cathcart selects an article from the New Statesman archive. This week an article from 17 September 1938 by HN Brailsforda former foreign correspondent and a passionate socialist

A Magistrate's Figures

  • 04 December 2006

EM Forster urged better treatment of homosexuals in this 31 October 1953 article selected by Brian Cathcart from our archive

A New Rolls

  • 27 November 2006

Selected by Brian Cathcart from the New Statesman archive, 24 December 1938

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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