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.

Articles by Ben Davies

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The Spectator - they're giving it away

  • 06 September 2007
  • 1 comment

A surprise subscription, visiting the homeland and more on being posh...

Walk on by?

  • 23 August 2007
  • 12 comments

Going to the rescue of a stranger is dangerous. A few days ago, Ben Davies had to decide whether to try to stop a vicious assault

Boris Johnson and the lefty conspiracy

  • 17 August 2007
  • 3 comments

Plots and intrigue at Terminal House plus Clarissa Dickson-Wright and much more

Land of the old general

  • 16 August 2007
  • 40 comments

Visiting Paraguay, Ben Davies finds a decaying country that still bears the scars of dictatorship

The devil may care

  • 10 August 2007

Satanism, Father Ted, the London Mayoral race and other matters

Goodbye Ulrich Mühe

  • 27 July 2007
  • 4 comments

The Lives of Others really is one of the best films I've seen in years

A large, ugly radio

  • 18 July 2007

Nurture vs nature, style vs substance and the American vs the loony

Alan Johnston

  • 04 July 2007
  • 3 comments

Delight the BBC correspondent has been released and other issues

Three things in no particular order

  • 25 May 2007
  • 3 comments

Harry Palmer, Orlo Porter, Bertie Wodehouse and the REDS...

Don't you love the Tories?

  • 18 May 2007
  • 2 comments

Brady's bunch of fives and other matters...

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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