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Film
How Catholic-bashing became respectable
06 December 2007

It is worth asking in passing whether Jews could now be depicted with the same idiom as is now being

Religion
Benedict the unexpected
10 April 2006

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

Books
Conservative pessimism
12 November 2001

Unfinest Hour: Britain and the destruction of Bosnia

Brendan Simms Penguin, 462pp, £18.99

Politics
How Britons helped Milosevic
09 July 2001

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

Politics
The Serbs chose their own butcher
09 April 2001

Slobodan Milosevic is now portrayed as an evil foisted upon a defenceless people. Melanie McDonagh r

Politics
The Church that loves chocolate
05 March 2001

The film Chocolat oozes anti-Catholic prejudice - worst of all, that a religion which loves

Society
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 a

Society
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

Politics
Time to deal with a typical British fudge
28 August 2000

The ethics of embryo research have not been addressed

Politics
Christmas turned upside down
20 December 1999

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

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