Sholto Byrnes
Sholto Byrnes is Assistant Editor of the New Statesman
Articles by Sholto Byrnes
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World Affairs
US Elections: Franken on the airwaves, and the hustings
- 30 October 2006
Interview with Al Franken
Politics
Burma Special: On the road to Myanmar's Mandalay
- 14 August 2006
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A romantic view persists of a country of silk and temples
Religion
'When it comes to facts, and explanations of facts, science is the only game in town'
- 10 April 2006
Daniel Dennett is the "good cop" among religion’s critics (Richard Dawkins is the bad cop), but he still makes people angry. Sholto Byrnes met him
World Affairs
The Emir of Qatar
- 17 October 2005
10 people - Sholto Byrnes on the leader who is showing the Middle East a different route to modernity
Ideas
NS Essay - 'Our faith in western liberal democracy, and our belief that it possesses a superior moral truth, have blinded us to countries with other traditions'
- 03 October 2005
If you say that different cultures are entitled to their own views on right and wrong you will be howled down as a "relativist". But since when did the west have a monopoly on wisdom?
Society
Stop knocking Richard Desmond
- 08 December 2003
It's simple snobbery that makes the Telegraph toffs scorn the owner of Horny Housewives
