Melanie McDonagh
Articles by Melanie McDonagh
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Life & Society
How Catholic-bashing became respectable
- 06 December 2007
- 47 comments
It is worth asking in passing whether Jews could now be depicted with the same idiom as is now being deployed against Catholics
Society
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 ISBN 0713994258
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 reminds us that he repeatedly won elections
Politics
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
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 any fun. Clive Hollick profiled
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 for them? Yasmin Alibhai-Brown profiled
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 fasting
