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My apologies to Stanley Johnson 2008-05-13 19:00:00 Fears I may have offended Pater Johnson
, reports from inside China and Burma plus what's going on in our blogs... Read more:Stanley
My apologies to Stanley Johnson 2008-05-13 19:00:00 Fears I may have offended Pater Johnson
, reports from inside China and Burma plus what's going on in our blogs... Read more:Stanley
Bad language 2007-11-24 18:00:00 The strange thing about language
, the anniversary of the death of Litvinenko, elections in Australia and Nick Clegg's aunt and the rest
Boris Johnson. We're delighted... 2007-09-26 19:00:00 newstatesman.com's campaign to help the Conservative Party with its London mayoral primary sees BorisJohnson
victorious ... for now
Sister Dorries and the labour camp 2008-06-13 05:30:18 Finally is it possible to work out the real agenda of David Cameron's Conservatives?I commend to you the blog of Tory MP and friend of the Fundies (that's Christian Fundamentalists in case you didn't know) Nadine Dorries.
Have a good read and then contrast and compare the way her party leader, Lexus Dave Cameron, tries to pass himself off. You now know the form: no more laughing at the poor. No mo
Free speech and censorship 2008-06-24 13:16:08 The danger of being cheery, how we should deal with unruly commentors, and some of the exciting things ahead on newstatesman.comLet me take a few minutes to put the boot into the Cheery Digest. A confirmed miserablist, I'm clearly not the target audience for this sort of thing.
Nor have I any idea who is behind this blog so why not read this and draw your own conclusions...
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Ray Lewis' resignation 2008-07-05 02:50:18 The extraordinary resignation of Boris Johnson's deputy mayor Ray Lewis
saw me called in to BBC London on Friday night to take part in a discussion on the Tessa Dunlop show that involved London Assembly members and callers from around the capital.
It was two hours of lively debate as we all tried to take stock of the fact that Johnson, elected just two months ago on 1 [...]
Hitler's head 2008-07-15 04:32:45 Goodbye Sian Berry, the 150th anniversary of Emmeline Pankhurst plus Tom Quinn, our Mormon correspondent, heads back to the States. And some strange memories of Madam Tussauds... First my thanks to Sian Berry who has been a regular contributor on newstatesman.com since we relaunched on 30 November 2006.
Having spent a great deal of the past 18 months in the public eye as Green co-principal speaker Read more:Hitler
Tories sail into stormy waters 2008-08-06 08:00:38 What's going on on newstatesman.com plus devastating news of a Tory split. Or is it just a big Cameron PR cook-up?This week on newstatesman.com the Ukrainian novelist Andrey Kurkov writes exclusively on Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, who related the terrible truth about Soviet totalitarianism in his Gulag Archipelago.
Kurkov observes: "Alexander Isaevich outlived his era and never truly accepted the new Read more:Tories
, stormy
Dark days for Brown 2008-07-31 10:56:23 Is the situation worse for Gordon Brown
than it was for John Major in the dying days of the last Tory administration? It's all looking rather bleak for Gordon Brown. In fact, if you agree with veteran Conservative politician John Gummer, the situation's actually worse for the prime minister than it was for John Major as his government faltered to extinction.
Writing this week on newstatesman.com,
Trinny and Susannah fats your lot 2008-08-13 08:39:57 Thought the freak show was a thing of the past? Well check out the programmes that make the overweight undress for your entertainment. Or rather don't bother...You know how the Americans used to pay money to look at the deformed in circus freak shows? If that appeals to you, try the modern day version.
The utterly loathsome programme Trinny and Susannah undress the nation is another spin on the G
London's loss, Caracas' gain 2008-08-29 11:49:25 Ditched by Londoners, it's nice to know that someone stands to benefit from Ken's years of experience in City HallWith his successor doing his bit for Anglo-Chinese relations with his flag-waving "ping pong's coming home" performance in Beijing last weekend, it's nice to see Ken Livingstone back in work this week as a consultant to his old friend Hugo Chavez. London, it seems, is just not big enou Read more:Caracas
Trinny and Susannah fats your lot 2008-08-13 08:39:57 Thought the freak show was a thing of the past? Well check out the programmes that make the overweight undress for your entertainment. Or rather don't bother...You know how the Americans used to pay money to look at the deformed in circus freak shows? If that appeals to you, try the modern day version.
The utterly loathsome programme Trinny and Susannah undress the nation is another spin on the G
Tories sail into stormy waters 2008-08-06 08:00:38 What's going on on newstatesman.com plus devastating news of a Tory split. Or is it just a big Cameron PR cook-up?This week on newstatesman.com the Ukrainian novelist Andrey Kurkov writes exclusively on Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, who related the terrible truth about Soviet totalitarianism in his Gulag Archipelago.
Kurkov observes: "Alexander Isaevich outlived his era and never truly accepted the new Read more:Tories
, stormy
Dark days for Brown 2008-07-31 10:56:23 Is the situation worse for Gordon Brown
than it was for John Major in the dying days of the last Tory administration? It's all looking rather bleak for Gordon Brown. In fact, if you agree with veteran Conservative politician John Gummer, the situation's actually worse for the prime minister than it was for John Major as his government faltered to extinction.
Writing this week on newstatesman.com,
Hitler's head 2008-07-15 04:32:45 Goodbye Sian Berry, the 150th anniversary of Emmeline Pankhurst plus Tom Quinn, our Mormon correspondent, heads back to the States. And some strange memories of Madam Tussauds... First my thanks to Sian Berry who has been a regular contributor on newstatesman.com since we relaunched on 30 November 2006.
Having spent a great deal of the past 18 months in the public eye as Green co-principal speaker Read more:Hitler
Ray Lewis' resignation 2008-07-05 02:50:18 The extraordinary resignation of Boris Johnson's deputy mayor Ray Lewis
saw me called in to BBC London on Friday night to take part in a discussion on the Tessa Dunlop show that involved London Assembly members and callers from around the capital.
It was two hours of lively debate as we all tried to take stock of the fact that Johnson, elected just two months ago on 1 [...]
Free speech and censorship 2008-06-24 13:16:08 The danger of being cheery, how we should deal with unruly commentors, and some of the exciting things ahead on newstatesman.comLet me take a few minutes to put the boot into the Cheery Digest. A confirmed miserablist, I'm clearly not the target audience for this sort of thing.
Nor have I any idea who is behind this blog so why not read this and draw your own conclusions...
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