New Statesman - <![CDATA[Simon Reid-Henry]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/simon_reid-henry en <![CDATA[Guantánamo's imperial past on its 10-year anniversary]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2012/01/guantanamo-obama-detention http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2012/01/guantanamo-obama-detention Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:38:30 GMT Simon Reid-Henry After a decade, this detention centre remains on the wrong side of the law.

]]> <![CDATA[The precarity of the global 99%]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2011/11/global-fund-health-aids http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2011/11/global-fund-health-aids Thu, 24 Nov 2011 16:07:48 GMT Simon Reid-Henry What The Global Fund's decision to cancel next year's funding round means for victims of Aids, TB and malaria.

]]> <![CDATA[We all own the violence]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2011/08/violence-streets-feral-forms http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2011/08/violence-streets-feral-forms Sat, 13 Aug 2011 10:17:09 GMT Simon Reid-Henry This is a simple truth and it has been misdiagnosed all week.

]]> <![CDATA[Norway: the mourning after]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/europe/2011/08/wing-extremism-norway-breivik http://www.newstatesman.com/europe/2011/08/wing-extremism-norway-breivik Mon, 01 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT Simon Reid-Henry After Friday’s massacre, Norwegians vowed to “hold one another near”, rather than seeking scapegoats. In this and many other ways, their response to extremism is an example to the rest of the world.

]]> <![CDATA[Europe gets a taste of its own medicine]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2011/05/imf-asian-europe-strauss-world http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2011/05/imf-asian-europe-strauss-world Mon, 23 May 2011 11:27:57 GMT Simon Reid-Henry Through the IMF, Asian capital now has a stranglehold on European nations – just as Europe did during other continents’ financial crises.

]]> <![CDATA[European solutions and progressive problems]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2011/05/european-norway-progressive http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2011/05/european-norway-progressive Mon, 16 May 2011 12:20:15 GMT Simon Reid-Henry The left has the answers to Europe’s problems, but it is failing to persuade.

]]> <![CDATA[Why Obama is courting his troublesome neighbours]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2011/03/latin-america-obama-brazil http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2011/03/latin-america-obama-brazil Wed, 23 Mar 2011 11:04:43 GMT Simon Reid-Henry In a world of shifting power balances, the president is wise to re-engage Latin America.

]]> <![CDATA[Budget 2011: shock doctrine in the UK]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2011/03/osborne-budget-cuts-social http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2011/03/osborne-budget-cuts-social Fri, 18 Mar 2011 11:16:12 GMT Simon Reid-Henry George Osborne’s Budget will attempt a radical social re-engineering of the UK.

]]> <![CDATA[Scandinavia hit by US spying claims]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2010/11/embassy-surveillance-programme http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2010/11/embassy-surveillance-programme Thu, 18 Nov 2010 17:43:48 GMT Simon Reid-Henry Controversial US Embassy surveillance programme

]]> <![CDATA[Ed quietly takes up Tony’s mantle]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/cultural-capital/2010/10/miliband-speech-judt-social http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/cultural-capital/2010/10/miliband-speech-judt-social Fri, 01 Oct 2010 15:08:21 GMT Simon Reid-Henry Tony Judt’s, that is.

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