Hywel Williams

Articles by Hywel Williams

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Ancient and modern

  • 28 February 2008
  • 2 comments

Empire of the Mind: a History of Iran Michael Axworthy C Hurst & Co, 256pp, £20

Times of turmoil

  • 25 October 2007

Borrowed Time: the Story of Britain Between the Wars Roy Hattersley Little, Brown, 480pp, £20

The people's party?

  • 14 June 2007

Comrades: A World History of Communism Robert Service Macmillan, 624pp, £25

A very English affair

  • 02 October 2006

A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900 Andrew Roberts Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 736pp, £25 ISBN 0297850768 From London to Canberra and Washington, DC, anglophone culture dominated the 20th century. Hywel Williams celebrates a provocative history of conquest and empire

Cross-Channel

  • 29 May 2006

That Sweet Enemy: the French and the British from the Sun King to the present Isabelle and Robert Tombs William Heinemann, 780pp, £25 ISBN 0434008672

NS Essay - 'Power elites dislike being identified: it threatens their covert authority'

  • 01 May 2006

Britain's secretive rulers consist of an incompetent executive class, a meaningless political class and a degraded professional class. Hywel Williams proposes a historical explanation

Easy peasy Japanesy

  • 18 June 2001
  • 1 comment

The Japanese past is best known in the west for its periods of withdrawal. Now, despite economic instability, Hywel Williams finds a country seeking out the world with a lavish celebration of its culture

All hail the off-the-peg gentleman

  • 25 December 2000

NS Christmas - The true English gent is dead. Now we make do with pale imitations, writesHywel Williams

The New Statesman Profile - Jonathon Porritt

  • 06 November 2000

He is our tree hugger in chief, a self-righteous prophet who now finds himself at the centre of things. Jonathon Porritt profiled

Schools that teach children to lie

  • 09 October 2000
  • 2 comments

Hywel Williams, a former master at Rugby, marvels at the hypocrisies, ancient and modern, that continue to sustain the English public schools

Facebook’s $1.6bn woman

Sheryl Sandberg: Facebook’s $1.6bn woman

A witch-hunt?

A witch-hunt against the Sun?

Osborne's woes

Osborne hoisted with his own petard

Marr's monarchism

Enough of this royal deference

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012
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