http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/brendan_o'neill en http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/02/cohen-liberal-enlightenment http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/02/cohen-liberal-enlightenment Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:02:11 GMT Brendan O'Neill Waiting for the Etonians: Reports from the Sickbed of Liberal England Nick Cohen Fourth Estate, 383pp, £12.99

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2008/10/sillitoe-bradford-class-writer http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2008/10/sillitoe-bradford-class-writer Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:16:12 GMT Brendan O'Neill Alan Sillitoe rose from abject poverty to become one of our best novelists. At the age of 80, he is still writing and free from miserable fatalism.

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/society/2008/05/knife-arches-crime-london http://www.newstatesman.com/society/2008/05/knife-arches-crime-london Thu, 29 May 2008 12:00:00 GMT Brendan O'Neill Observations on knife crime

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics/2008/05/bnp-party-parties-london-hand http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics/2008/05/bnp-party-parties-london-hand Thu, 01 May 2008 12:00:00 GMT Brendan O'Neill The rapid growth in support at the ballot box for a nationalist party of the right has gone hand in hand with voter cynicism and disillusion with the main parties

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/society/2008/04/british-primaries-obama-london http://www.newstatesman.com/society/2008/04/british-primaries-obama-london Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:00:00 GMT Brendan O'Neill Observations on British primaries

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2008/03/sex-women-trafficking-agustin http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2008/03/sex-women-trafficking-agustin Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:00:00 GMT Brendan O'Neill Most migrant women, including those in the sex industry, have made a clear decision, says a new study, to leave home and take their chances abroad. They are not "passive victims" in need of "saving" or sending back by western campaigners. Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry Laura María Agustín Zed Books, 224pp, £16.99

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2008/01/mental-distress-james http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2008/01/mental-distress-james Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:00:00 GMT Brendan O'Neill The epidemic of misery in the English-speaking west has been caused not by rampant consumerism, but by our addiction to therapy culture

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/society/2007/10/postal-workers-strike-mail http://www.newstatesman.com/society/2007/10/postal-workers-strike-mail Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:00:00 GMT Brendan O'Neill Observations on postal strike

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/society/2007/08/immigration-asylum-britain http://www.newstatesman.com/society/2007/08/immigration-asylum-britain Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:00:00 GMT Brendan O'Neill Observations on immigration

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2007/06/romania-britain-bulgaria http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2007/06/romania-britain-bulgaria Mon, 04 Jun 2007 12:00:00 GMT Brendan O'Neill Margaret Hodge thinks newcomers to Britain take housing which should go to the indigenous population. But there is no privilege in the life of newly arrived immigrants.

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