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.
Articles by Ben Davies
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UK Politics
Dark days for Brown
- 31 July 2008
- 14 comments
Is the situation worse for Gordon Brown than it was for John Major in the dying days of the last Tory administration?
UK Politics
Hitler's head
- 15 July 2008
Goodbye Sian Berry, the 150th anniversary of Emmeline Pankhurst plus Tom Quinn, our Mormon correspondent, heads back to the States. And some strange memories of Madam Tussauds...
2008 NMA winners
- 03 July 2008
The victors in this year's New Statesman New Media Awards are unveiled...
Society
Free speech and censorship
- 24 June 2008
- 10 comments
The danger of being cheery, how we should deal with unruly commentors, and some of the exciting things ahead on newstatesman.com
UK Politics
Sister Dorries and the labour camp
- 13 June 2008
- 1 comment
Finally is it possible to work out the real agenda of David Cameron's Conservatives?
UK Politics
Davis quits over 42 days
- 12 June 2008
- 32 comments
Top Tory David Davis quits over his opposition to the 42 day detention decision in a major split with party leader David Cameron. Plus Stephen Brasher asks is this another George Lansbury?
UK Politics
My apologies to Stanley Johnson
- 14 May 2008
Fears I may have offended Pater Johnson, reports from inside China and Burma plus what's going on in our blogs...
UK Politics
Life after Ken
- 03 May 2008
- 8 comments
Terrible results are capped off by Boris Johnson taking the mayoralty of London and with just a couple of years to the next election where does Labour go from here?
UK Politics
Alun Michael: a concession was painted as a climbdown
- 02 May 2008
Former Welsh Secretary and first minister Alun Michael says the 10p tax issue played very badly with voters and in the end concessions from Gordon Brown came too late
