New Statesman - <![CDATA[Neal Ascherson]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/neal_ascherson en <![CDATA[The war that changed us]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2008/03/iraq-war-british-britain http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2008/03/iraq-war-british-britain Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:00:00 GMT Neal Ascherson It began with a blinding flash and promises of speedy victory. Five years on the mission far from accomplished. Neal Ascherson opens this Iraq Special

]]> <![CDATA[The corporation]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200412060043 http://www.newstatesman.com/200412060043 Mon, 06 Dec 2004 12:00:00 GMT Neal Ascherson Uncertain Vision: Birt, Dyke and the reinvention of the BBC Georgina Born Secker & Warburg, 564pp, £17.99 ISBN 0436205629

]]> <![CDATA[The other side of the hill. Espionage has never been so discredited. The heroic myths of the Second World War have given way to the cynical belief that spooks are just the servants of politicians. But has intelligence ever been as crucial as we thought? ]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200311240038 http://www.newstatesman.com/200311240038 Mon, 24 Nov 2003 12:00:00 GMT Neal Ascherson Intelligence in War: knowledge of the enemy from Napoleon to al-Qaeda John Keegan Hutchinson, 443pp, £25 ISBN 0091802296

]]> <![CDATA[The New Statesman Essay - The indispensable Englishman]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/199901290019 http://www.newstatesman.com/199901290019 Fri, 29 Jan 1999 12:00:00 GMT Neal Ascherson Tom Paine has never been widely honoured in his own land, probably, thinks Neal Ascherson, because he was an enemy of irrational authority

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