Richard Webster

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NS Essay - 'Saddam, Arafat and the Saudis hate the Jews and want to see them destroyed'

  • 02 December 2002

. . . or so says the right-wing writer Andrew Sullivan. And he has a point. Does the western left really grasp the extent of anti-Semitism in the Middle East? But does the right grasp the role of Europeans in creating such hatred?

A trawl that nets the innocent

  • 11 November 2002

Observations on miscarriages of justice

The new injustices

  • 28 January 2002

Richard Webster reports that, as Stephen Downing is set free, hundreds more innocent people - this time, ex-workers in children's homes - face prison

The New Statesman Special Report - How the police trawl the innocent

  • 19 July 1999
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As many as 5,000 care workers may be facing complaints of child abuse. Are they the victims of the biggest witch-hunt in history, asks Richard Webster

The NS special report - What the BBC did not tell us

  • 19 February 1999

Richard Webster finds flaws in a "shock" broadcast on child abuse in Wales

Tiananmen Square

20 years on

Desperately seeking democracy

Nina Power

Newspeak's legacy

Bamboozle, baffle and blindside

Television

Simon Schama

Simplistic Simon says: “Look at me, everyone!”

Theatre

Liberal guilt

Watch out for the bleeding-heart liberal

Vernon Bogdanor

Worse than Profumo

End of the party

Nicky Wire

The way I see it

Nicky Wire: The way I see it

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Will China rule the world?

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