Melanie McDonagh

Articles by Melanie McDonagh

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How Catholic-bashing became respectable

  • 06 December 2007
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It is worth asking in passing whether Jews could now be depicted with the same idiom as is now being deployed against Catholics

Benedict the unexpected

  • 10 April 2006

Modest, musical and concerned with Christian love, this pope is nobody's Rottweiler

Conservative pessimism

  • 12 November 2001

Unfinest Hour: Britain and the destruction of Bosnia Brendan Simms Penguin, 462pp, £18.99 ISBN 0713994258

How Britons helped Milosevic

  • 09 July 2001

We once supported the man now on trial for war crimes as a peacebroker

The Serbs chose their own butcher

  • 09 April 2001

Slobodan Milosevic is now portrayed as an evil foisted upon a defenceless people. Melanie McDonagh reminds us that he repeatedly won elections

The Church that loves chocolate

  • 05 March 2001

The film Chocolat oozes anti-Catholic prejudice - worst of all, that a religion which loves sensuality and luscious art is puritanical

The New Statesman Profile - Clive Hollick

  • 04 December 2000

He thought that by buying a newspaper he'd make friends and win influence. But he didn't even have any fun. Clive Hollick profiled

The New Statesman Profile - Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

  • 23 October 2000

She is everywhere, this self-proclaimed champion of the ethnic minorities. But can she really speak for them? Yasmin Alibhai-Brown profiled

Time to deal with a typical British fudge

  • 28 August 2000

The ethics of embryo research have not been addressed

Christmas turned upside down

  • 20 December 1999

New Statesman Christmas - Our season of gluttony should be preceded, not followed, by fasting

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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