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Serbia's divided society

Serbia's divided society

Ahead of elections in Serbia on Sunday, Eric Gordy explains that the country going to the polls is split between those looking hopefully toward a European future and those looking vengefully back to the recent past

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Free to be poisoned

  • By Sue Branford
  • 08 May

Observations on trade

Unfriendly persuasion

  • By Nicholas Wapshott
  • 08 May

Observations on abortion

Old Spanish practices

  • By Jason Webster
  • 08 May

Imagining Spain: Historical Myth and National Identity
Henry Kamen
Yale University Press, 240pp, £25

Was it Campbell?

  • By Chris Ames
  • 07 May

Tony Blair's former chief of spin, Alastair Campbell, may after all have sexed-up the notorious 45 minutes WMD claim when the case for invading Iraq was being made

Bolivian poppycock

  • By Hugh O'Shaughnessy
  • 06 May

A faux referendum in Bolivia demanding greater autonomy for the Santa Cruz province is nothing more than a modern version of Ian Smith's shortlived minority rule in Southern Rhodesia

Priests' law of death

  • By Martin Markovits and Vincent Bevins
  • 01 May

Observations on Nicaragua and abortion

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Bright's Blog

Politics uncovered by Martin Bright, New Statesman political editor

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Sian Berry

Green Party candidate for Mayor of London, Sian Berry writes for newstatesman.com

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Burma’s referendum of the absurd

Despite the terrible cyclone death toll, Burma's military junta is pushing ahead with its spurious constitutional referendum

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