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Ben Davies

Ben Davies

Ben Davies trained as a journalist after taking most of the 1990s off. Prior to joining the New Statesman he spent five years working as a politics reporter for the BBC News website. He lives in North London.

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Labour's worst results in 40 years

  • 02 May 2008
  • 6 comments

Labour is badly hit in local elections in England and Wales pushed into third place by Tories and Lib Dems

Lembit - more interesting than PR

  • 22 April 2008

The Lib Dem MP is to marry his Cheeky Girl - as announced in Hello

Fantasy mayor

  • 14 April 2008
  • 5 comments

The launch of newstatesman.com's Fantasy Mayor game. Find out which candidate most closely matches your views

A decade of the NMA

  • 08 April 2008

We celebrate 10 years of holding the New Media Awards - a decade of huge technological advances

A lifeline needs saving

  • 19 March 2008

When women have been sexually abused, many turn to Rape Crisis centres for support and help. But these essential services are themselves under threat through lack of money

Pasquill Official Secrets case dismissed

  • 09 January 2008
  • 3 comments

Derek Pasquill, a Foreign Office official charged under the Official Secrets act in connection with stories that appeared in the New Statesman, has had his case dismissed

Decolonialising Bolivia

  • 07 December 2007
  • 2 comments

César Navarro, political ally of Bolivian President Evo Morales, on the struggle to drive through change in the South American country

If I were Tory leader and other matters

  • 01 December 2007
  • 2 comments

Goldsmith, the Greens, Miss World, Water Wars plus if one was given the opportunity to rule...

Bad language

  • 25 November 2007
  • 2 comments

The strange thing about language, the anniversary of the death of Litvinenko, elections in Australia and Nick Clegg's aunt and the rest

Paddick: Orde should replace Blair

  • 21 November 2007
  • 4 comments

Former top cop turned Lib Dem London mayoral candidate Brian Paddick explains why Ian Blair cannot reform the Met

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