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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
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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
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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
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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
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Letter to a Parent of a British soldier in Palestine
- 15 January 2007
Taken from the New Statesman archive, 16 August 1947
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The Lung-Hai Railway in War-time
- 08 January 2007
Taken from the New Statesman archive, 16 July 1938
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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
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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
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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
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A New Rolls
- 27 November 2006
Selected by Brian Cathcart from the New Statesman archive, 24 December 1938
