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China bullies Australia with 'bans and restrictions on its exports', and this justifies the Australian PM's breaking the global rule that the Southern Hemisphere should not be nuclearised, argues Helen [...]

Harry Lambert resurrects the myth that all would have been different had Labour imposed the EU's seven-year transition period in 2004 for people from new member states working in the [...]

In 'A Machiavel in Downing Street' (27 September), Harry Lambert claims that Dominic Cummings's work for the anti-EU outfit Business for Sterling 'helped dissuade Tony Blair from holding a referendum [...]

When I worked for the BBC World Service as a journalist in the 1970s, we were never allowed to write an item for a bulletin without at least three sources. [...]

As one of the politicians involved in settlement of the phone-hacking cases on 19 January, I believe it should mark the beginning of a serious inquiry into the power and [...]

BILL MORRIS, general secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union The leadership election nobody wanted is now behind us. We have had our first experience of 'one member, one [...]

It is a century since the Socialist International was founded, 50 years since Stalin wound up the Communist International and two millennia since the first really serious global network - [...]

Helen Thompson glides over the reasons why Tony Blair offered a referendum in 2004 on the EU constitutional treaty (These Times, 20 September). Blair resisted referendum fever when many ministers, [...]

Helen Thompson's article (These Times, 26 July) gets the record a bit wrong and draws, I would suggest, the wrong conclusion. By the time Margaret Thatcher sealed her fate with [...]

I enjoyed Marigold Johnson's reflections on her husband, Paul Johnson, the editor of the New Statesman when I first began reading it (Diary, 7 November). This is a small addition [...]

While the latest reshuffle was under way, a rumour went around that Downing Street would appoint a secretary of state--a full cabinet minister--for Europe. It is a pity it didn't [...]

Danny Dorling's fascinating account of how a Britain that achieved near-Nordic levels of income equality in the first 30 years after 1945 and then became one of the least equal [...]

A little more than a year ago, China Culture Gazette, official organ of China's Ministry of Culture, was transformed. For years, CCG had been an infamous stronghold of the hard-line [...]

The TUC has survived 14 years of non-stop attack, but lost ground in the process. Now it is time to draw on other countries' experience, says Denis MacShane One of [...]

Socialism seemingly is in retreat across Europe. However, socialist parties govern France and Spain and socialists are the biggest group in the European parliament indicating that a renaissance of socialism may lie in the near future.

As the cries of 'Long live the nation state' echo across the Continent, and British anti-Europeans hail the beginning of the end of the EU, or at least its transformation [...]

Denis MacShane finds a hot political issue that has been overlooked by the Third Way gurus All sorts of explanations have been put forward for Labour's local election losses. Peter [...]

Denis MacShane offers a solution for Britain's shortage of capital, and her gross inequalities Why are there so few capitalists in Britain? It is more than two decades since the [...]

In the 1970s, Britain's rate of divorce, teenage pregnancy and other indices of family stability were much the same as those of other European countries. From 1980 onwards they shot [...]

Returning to South Africa after a long absence was to feel that everything had changed but everything was still the same. The granite solidity of the Wits University building in [...]

Three decades ago, a French politician flew to Washington to take part in a left-wing conference. The editor of the New York Times turned down the suggestion that an interview [...]

Peter Wilby is wrong to urge a vote to leave Europe just because David Cameron wants an EU reconfigured to his neoliberal dreams (First Thoughts, 22 May). The task of [...]

Retired Kremlinologists, a smattering of diplomats and foreign policy think-tankers settled down comfortably at the fashionable Politics and Prose bookshop in Washington last month to listen to Edward Lucas of [...]

Your excellent trade union supplement (10 September) argues that 'Germany did not need to abandon its famed social market model in order to make its current economic recovery'. Not quite [...]

Seventy years ago, in the middle of a late summer night, Spain's greatest 20th-century poet, Federico Garcia Lorca, was bundled into a hollow in a wooded ravine north of Granada [...]

My criminal record is pretty thin. Speeding and parking fines, student demonstrations and picket-line forays for the National Union of Journalists never seemed to persuade magistrates that I was worth [...]

As soon as parliament finished its work, I took my children off through the Channel Tunnel, across the Alps to Italy and back, to stay with friends in different parts [...]

Preachers of Hate: the rise of the far right Angus Roxburqh Gibson Square Books, 320pp, £18.99 www.newstatesman.com/bookshop English is the new lingua franca of Europe, right? Wrong, if you are [...]

In the light of the Israeli shelling of United Nations schools, does this not count as the New Statesman's most mealy-mouthed editorial line ever: 'It can seem at times as [...]

'Predistribution' is just a fancy Harvard name for fair wages (Politics Profile, 5 July). The best--the only--agency for achieving those are strong, sensible trade unions. Right now Labour's little local [...]

Geoffrey Robertson is right to highlight the Justice for Sergei Magnitsky Act (Observations, 8 March), which bans 6o Russian state functionaries from entering the United States. He is wrong to [...]

Diane Coyle Capstone Publishing, 18.99 £ Economic journalism in Britain has never been more sparkling. Who has managed to read more than a few pages of a book on politics [...]

Peter Hennessy Gollancz, 20£ Radio 4 is the best-kept secret in British political life. All attention is focused on its breakfast-time output, when ministers and oppositionist backbenchers -- Labour and [...]

Francesca Klug, Kei Starmer & Stuart Weir Routledge, 14.99£ Radio 4 is the best-kept secret in British political life. All attention is focused on its breakfast-time output, when ministers and [...]

Philip Stephens Macmillan, 20£ Roast beef and the pound stering: the humiliating eradication of these old English symbols by Her Majesty's Ministers is the most potent sign of the British [...]

Is Globalisation the new God before which all must bow? As an economic construct or cultural vision, the driving force of Globalisation (with a capital G) is today's dominant metaphor. [...]

Is Globalisation the new God before which all must bow? As an economic construct or cultural vision, the driving force of Globalisation (with a capital G) is today's dominant metaphor. [...]

It's 2035 and Britain, with two fingers up to the EU, has closed the tunnel, taken control of the Internet and branded its aliens with yellow stars. Sadly, it's also [...]

Bryan Gould and Peter Hain appear to have much in common. Both arrived in the 1960s from former British imperial possessions. Their motto might be 'Who knows England who only [...]

Bryan Gould and Peter Hain appear to have much in common. Both arrived in the 1960s from former British imperial possessions. Their motto might be 'Who knows England who only [...]

Bryan Gould and Peter Hain appear to have much in common. Both arrived in the 1960s from former British imperial possessions. Their motto might be 'Who knows England who only [...]

In 1981, I was there at la Bastille as Francois Mitterrand won control of the Elysee after 2.5 years of unbroken right-wing rule. I rushed back to write a biography [...]

Once again, the French are going to change Europe. The 1968 movement buried the stale, conservative society of the 195os and early 196os. In 1981, the French put a Socialist [...]

Thanks for a first-rate piece on Lebanon ('State within a state'. 9 January), but why nothing on economics? There was, and is, plenty of money in Lebanon and much of [...]

A South Yorkshire businessman told me an Arthur Scargill story recently. He had a pub acquaintance, an ex-miner, who suffered from a disease caused by his years in the pit, [...]

A South Yorkshire businessman told me an Arthur Scargill story recently. He had a pub acquaintance, an ex-miner, who suffered from a disease caused by his years in the pit, [...]

Humility in the face of ignorance is the heart of success. This Japanese proverb can be usefully inscribed on the notebooks of all aspiring politicians as they contemplate the enemy. [...]

Humility in the face of ignorance is the heart of success. This Japanese proverb can be usefully inscribed on the notebooks of all aspiring politicians as they contemplate the enemy. [...]