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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.

Articles by ben davies

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Ted Heath goes everywhere

  • 26 April 2007
  • 1 comment

How a newstatesman.com exclusive by Tory Brian Coleman about Ted Heath cottaging got picked up everywhere ...

Dot's rare talent

  • 20 April 2007

A brief round-up of events in the last few days plus penetrating insights into popular culture

Afghan journeys

  • 16 April 2007

The Sleeping Buddha
Hamida Ghafour Constable & Robinson, 320pp, £8.99
ISBN 1845293134

The Tolpuddle Martyrs and Marie Antoinette

  • 11 April 2007

A couple of sublime moments plus a trip to rural West Dorset

A divine experience

  • 09 April 2007

Ben Davies discovers a Buenos Aires theme park with more to offer than hot dogs and roller coasters

I'm a quitter not a fighter

  • 30 March 2007
  • 1 comment

Carol Thatcher, Mormons and other stories...

We're all sex addicts now...

  • 23 March 2007

My continued bafflement about the modern world

Spat'll be ninety quid

  • 19 March 2007

Observations on argument

How I destroyed a family

  • 16 March 2007

Causing a schism for Tembaletu

Big Brother, Mayor Berry and atheism

  • 12 March 2007

How a New Statesman blogger will go head-to-head with Ken Livingstone, Simon Munnery muses about fivers and the irony of Big Brother

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