Jason Cowley

Articles by Jason Cowley

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Rory Stewart, Who’s Who and clubs

  • 29 October 2009
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Stewart is a man of action and a man of letters of a kind you no longer find in British politics

The Humbling

  • 29 October 2009

Sex, death, loneliness, old age: yes, it’s another Roth novel. But this time, is the great American author merely repeating himself?

The corrupted currents

  • 11 June 2009

As Jude Law brings a touch of Hollywood to the role of Hamlet, Jason Cowley draws parallels between the world of the great plays and the plight of our embattled Prime Minister

1989 The year of the crowd

  • 12 March 2009

New Statesman editor Jason Cowley introduces a special issue on the year that saw the Berlin Wall come down

The David Miliband interviews

  • 20 February 2009

''I never intended to challenge Gordon''

  • 19 February 2009
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Caricatured as an über-Blairite and criticised for the leadership challenge that never was, David Miliband is quietly rebuilding his reputation.

Here was peculiar grace

  • 22 January 2009
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The Indian elite blame Pakistan for the Mumbai attacks. They congratulate themselves on their restraint. But how long can it last?

Naipaul, Orwell and Stamford Bridge

  • 18 December 2008

The politics of excitement

  • 14 May 2007
  • 1 comment

The Blair decade began with an exuberant rush of energy and sense of possibility. How can politics recapture the ability to inspire us? Hard action and clear choices?

Engaged and sincere

  • 16 April 2007

Touchstones: essays on literature, art and politics Mario Vargas Llosa Faber & Faber, 353pp, £25 ISBN 0571214991

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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