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20 January 2011

Introducing our blogging powerhouse

New bloggers join the New Statesman.

By Jon Bernstein

Today we unveil a new roster of bloggers including regular Conservative and Liberal Democrat contributors for the first time. Our new line-up features:

David Allen Green
A lawyer and writer who made his blogging reputation with the Orwell Prize-shortlisted Jack of Kent.
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David Blanchflower
The New Statesman‘s economics editor and columnist, Professor Blanchflower was an external member of the Bank of England’s interest-rate-setting Monetary Policy Committee from June 2006 to June 2009.
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Olly Grender
A political pundit and a regular on the BBC Newsnight political panel. She is a former speechwriter and director of communications for the Liberal Democrats.
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Dan Hodges
Well known to many readers as a contributor to Labour Uncut, he will cover the twists and turns of Ed Miliband’s leadership and promises to be the “grit in the oyster of new politics”.
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Christopher Montgomery
A previous director of Friends of the Union, who ran A Better Choice, the campaign to keep Tory members enfranchised in leadership elections. His blog promises to be “illiberal, unprogressive and traditionally Thatcherite”.
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Helen Lewis
An assistant editor of the New Statesman, she will offer news and views about writing, eating, gaming and watching.
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Steven Baxter
Better known to dwellers of the blogosphere as Anton Vowl, author of the biting Enemies of Reason. He will patrol the murkier waters of mainstream media.
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They join our existing roster of bloggers which includes our own Mehdi Hasan, the comedian and NS columnist Mark Watson and the ever-excellent Laurie Penny.

To read them all go to newstatesman.com/blogs

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