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UK politics

The MP Interview: Caroline Lucas

By Samira Shackle - 18 May 2012

On proportional representation, the failure of austerity, and growing up with the ...

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Leader: The fate of the eurozone lies with François Hollande

By New Statesman - 16 May 2012

1 comment
Where are Ed Miliband’s outriders?

By Mehdi Hasan - 16 May 2012

Despite recent successes, the Labour leader lacks cheerleaders in the party, in par...

23 comments
The MP Interview: Bridget Phillipson

By Samira Shackle - 11 May 2012

On Harold Wilson, care for the elderly, and singing Girls Aloud badly.
Beaker’s bleaker future

By Kevin Maguire - 10 May 2012

Danny Alexander's troubled quest for a new seat.

3 comments
Boring politicians, Dave’s toe job and my brush with a detective

By Peter Wilby - 09 May 2012

Human Rights

Never forget that Bradley Manning, and not gay marriage, is the issue

By John Pilger - 16 May 2012

Barack Obama’s sudden “conversion” to the cause of same-sex marriage barely disguises...

18 comments
The NS Interview: Albie Sachs, lawyer and anti-apartheid campaigner

By Jonathan Derbyshire - 31 Oct 2011

“If you’re fighting for justice, your methods have to be just”
Mosley fails in European Court privacy appeal

By Andrew Pugh - 27 Sep 2011

The ECHR has rejected Max Mosley's appeal to tighten privacy laws in the UK following...

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Full transcript | Harriet Harman | Speech On International Development | Labour Party Conference, Liverpool | 26 September 2011

By Harriet Harman - 26 Sep 2011

"We are in the Labour Party because we hate injustice and inequality and together we...

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Libya — is war over?

By Nicholas Pelham - 26 Sep 2011

Libya is euphoric at the fall of Gaddafi. But with the “interim” government headed by...
The NS Interview: Donna Marsh O’Connor, peace activist

By Sophie Elmhirst - 08 Sep 2011

“I can’t believe I haven’t seen my daughter in ten years”

Blogs

Labour’s unending spite towards the Lib Dems is self-defeating

By Rafael Behr - 21 May 2012

Even if Miliband thinks Clegg is dead in the water he must remember that voters are...

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Casual gaming in Number 10

By Alex Hern - 21 May 2012

What does Cameron see in Fruit Ninja?
David Cameron cheering: a meme is born

By Samira Shackle - 21 May 2012

Mash-ups of the Prime Minister.

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Cable dismisses "bonkers" unfair dismissal plans

By Samira Shackle - 21 May 2012

Coalition tension over the Beecroft report continues.

3 comments
Let's talk about men

By Helen Lewis - 21 May 2012

Introducing our themed week on the NS blogs.

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Morning Call: pick of the papers

By New Statesman - 21 May 2012

The ten must-read comment pieces from this morning's papers.

Comment

Media Islamophobia, the paranoid style and dodging flying cars

By Peter Wilby - 18 Apr 2012

1 comment

International politics

Why would the Greeks leave the euro? No one can make them

By Kitty Ussher - 16 May 2012

6 comments
As president, Obama lost his voice – but Al Green helped him get it back

By Nicholas Wapshott - 09 May 2012

Beneath his cool veneer the US President is at last perceived as being sympathetic.

6 comments
Back in black

By Daniel Trilling - 09 May 2012
Cameron will regret his snub

By Denis MacShane - 09 May 2012
Sarkozy’s loss is the far right’s gain

By Andrew Hussey - 09 May 2012
Mexican presidential debate overshadowed by a low-cut dress

By Samira Shackle - 08 May 2012

Mexico’s Federal Electoral Institute blames "production error" for assistant's...

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Environment

In the footsteps of elephants

By Michael Brooks - 05 Mar 2012

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Where the wild things aren’t

By John Burnside - 16 Nov 2011
The city on the edge of the world

By Edward Platt - 31 Oct 2011

In 1933, J B Priestley set off to discover “the common well of Englishness”. In the...

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How the Tories went from oak-tree logo to enemies of conservation

By George Eaton - 13 Sep 2011
A very English revolution

By William Cash - 13 Sep 2011

Middle England feels betrayed by the coalition’s shake-up of planning rules – the...

23 comments
Gas fracking: the next threat to the planet

By Tess Riley - 10 Aug 2011

Unconventional gas extraction should not be part of our energy future.

12 comments

Law

Sam Hallam freed after seven years

By Harriet Williams - 17 May 2012

Young man wrongly convicted of murder in 2004 is released.
Broadcasters' legal victory over Dale Farm footage grab

By Andrew Pugh - 17 May 2012

Court order to hand over unbroadcast footage overturned

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Broadcasters hail 'historic' cameras in court reform

By Press Gazette - 10 May 2012

Queen's Speech promises historic reform.
The slow death of British justice

By Rowenna Davis - 02 May 2012
Sheridan freed a year after NoW perjury conviction

By Press Gazette - 30 Jan 2012

Former MSP's lawyer says public speaking ban may feature in release conditions.
The terrorist who wasn’t

By Peter Oborne - 30 Jan 2012

Vilified by the press and falsely branded a terror threat by Interpol, Tunisian-born...

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