New Statesman - <![CDATA[Melanie McDonagh]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/melanie_mcdonagh en <![CDATA[How Catholic-bashing became respectable]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/life-and-society/2007/12/catholics-church-depicted http://www.newstatesman.com/life-and-society/2007/12/catholics-church-depicted Thu, 06 Dec 2007 12:00:00 GMT Melanie McDonagh It is worth asking in passing whether Jews could now be depicted with the same idiom as is now being deployed against Catholics

]]> <![CDATA[Benedict the unexpected]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200604100025 http://www.newstatesman.com/200604100025 Mon, 10 Apr 2006 12:00:00 GMT Melanie McDonagh Modest, musical and concerned with Christian love, this pope is nobody's Rottweiler

]]> <![CDATA[Conservative pessimism]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200111120046 http://www.newstatesman.com/200111120046 Mon, 12 Nov 2001 12:00:00 GMT Melanie McDonagh Unfinest Hour: Britain and the destruction of Bosnia Brendan Simms Penguin, 462pp, £18.99 ISBN 0713994258

]]> <![CDATA[How Britons helped Milosevic]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200107090008 http://www.newstatesman.com/200107090008 Mon, 09 Jul 2001 12:00:00 GMT Melanie McDonagh We once supported the man now on trial for war crimes as a peacebroker

]]> <![CDATA[The Serbs chose their own butcher]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200104090016 http://www.newstatesman.com/200104090016 Mon, 09 Apr 2001 12:00:00 GMT Melanie McDonagh Slobodan Milosevic is now portrayed as an evil foisted upon a defenceless people. Melanie McDonagh reminds us that he repeatedly won elections

]]> <![CDATA[The Church that loves chocolate]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200103050014 http://www.newstatesman.com/200103050014 Mon, 05 Mar 2001 12:00:00 GMT Melanie McDonagh The film Chocolat oozes anti-Catholic prejudice - worst of all, that a religion which loves sensuality and luscious art is puritanical

]]> <![CDATA[The New Statesman Profile - Clive Hollick]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200012040013 http://www.newstatesman.com/200012040013 Mon, 04 Dec 2000 12:00:00 GMT Melanie McDonagh He thought that by buying a newspaper he'd make friends and win influence. But he didn't even have any fun. Clive Hollick profiled

]]> <![CDATA[The New Statesman Profile - Yasmin Alibhai-Brown]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200010230023 http://www.newstatesman.com/200010230023 Mon, 23 Oct 2000 12:00:00 GMT Melanie McDonagh She is everywhere, this self-proclaimed champion of the ethnic minorities. But can she really speak for them? Yasmin Alibhai-Brown profiled

]]> <![CDATA[Time to deal with a typical British fudge]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200008280007 http://www.newstatesman.com/200008280007 Mon, 28 Aug 2000 12:00:00 GMT Melanie McDonagh The ethics of embryo research have not been addressed

]]> <![CDATA[Christmas turned upside down]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/199912200040 http://www.newstatesman.com/199912200040 Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:00:00 GMT Melanie McDonagh New Statesman Christmas - Our season of gluttony should be preceded, not followed, by fasting

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