Robert Taylor

Articles by Robert Taylor

Results 1 to 10 of 32

Sorry it took so long

  • 26 March 2007

Observations on anti-slavery

Yankees, don't go!

  • 09 October 2006

Observations on Iceland

A vote for no change

  • 25 September 2006

Observations on Sweden

The revolution that never was

  • 11 September 2006

The General Strike of 1926 has previously been presented as a rather calm, gentlemanly affair. Robert Taylor reveals new evidence that the state came precipitously close to provoking a bloody struggle

Unions open the door

  • 11 September 2006

Observations on migrants

Not Marx, Hazlitt

  • 26 June 2006

Observations on Blair's inspirations

My socialist dream

  • 19 June 2006

Time was when Tony Blair espoused radical causes. Robert Taylor reveals the romanticism in a hidden letter from the young politician to the Labour leader Michael Foot

There is an alternative

  • 26 September 2005

Observations on Sweden

The workers of Europe unite

  • 05 May 2003

Blair, Schroder and Chirac may be at odds on Iraq, but all three want to keep unions down. Can John Monks, as the new continental union leader, fight back?

Trapped in a loveless marriage

  • 10 March 2003

Even old-guard union leaders such as Bill Morris have fallen out with Blair. The new ones coming up are even more hostile. Robert Taylor advises the PM to try trusting the unions a little more

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

Vote!

Was the government wrong to sack David Nutt?

Suggest a question

View comments

© New Statesman 1913 – 2009

Tracker