Richard Webster

Articles by Richard Webster

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Society

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?

Politics

A trawl that nets the innocent

11 November 2002
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Observations on miscarriages of justice

Politics

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

Politics

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

Politics