Richard Webster

Articles by 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
  • 2 comments

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

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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