British Prime Minister Tony Blair speaks during the U.N. Security Council meeting September 7, 2000 at the United Nations.

New? We’ve always been new

28 February 2000: The idea of old Labour is largely a myth, and the product of ignorance.

By Neil Kinnock

From the NS archive: Lenin and Churchill
19 June 1920: It is curious to observe how much these two statesmen of 20th-century Europe have in common.

By Anonymous
02 February
From the NS archive: An appreciation of Somerset Maugham
6 January 1934: Somerset Maugham approaches his 60th birthday.

By Anonymous
02 February
From the NS archive: The Pact of Rome
12 January 1935: Is this agreement a guarantee of peace, or yet “another pious aspiration”?

By Anonymous
26 January
From the NS archive: We must not plead a delusion
12 December 1986: New Statesman staff respond to their editor on nuclear disarmament.

By New Statesman
26 January
From the NS archive: The Van Meegeren affair
1 April 1950: The too-good-to-be-true “new” Vermeers.

By John Richardson
26 January
From the NS archive: Cobwebs on Hardy
16 May 1942: Would Thomas Hardy have been one of the great English poets?

By Stephen Spender
19 January
From the NS archive: Who goes home?
28 July 1945: The problem of German prisoners of war.

By A Special Correspondent
19 January
From the NS archive: Our debt to Ronald
25 November 1983: How President Reagan has been misunderstood and undervalued by the left

By John Kenneth Galbraith
19 January
From the NS archive: The wound and the bow
27 October 1978: On the precariousness of friendship between writers.

By Malcolm Bradbury
12 January
From the NS archive: Scouse
1 July 1963: The brutal reality of Liverpool in the early 1960s.

By John Morgan
12 January