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Golden thread, national myth

Golden thread, national myth

Those behind the new Labour revolution are beginning to realise that to discard our heritage is also to betray the origins of many of our liberties. The question is how to interpret the meanings of those liberties for modern political life

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Books of the Year 2008

  • By Ian Irvine
  • 18 December

Selected by Ian Irvine, NS books editor

New best friends

  • By Richard Reeves
  • 11 December

Old political certainties are in tatters, but as Gordon Brown and David Cameron struggle to stress their differences, progressive politicians can be found on both sides of the House. They should get together

The triumph of greed

  • By Clive Dilnot
  • 04 December

Tax evasion, tax avoidance, money laundering: institutionalised crime is so much part of the global economy. Then there is moral crime...

Uncomfortable origins

  • By Tom Holland
  • 20 November

We have had a remarkable response to Tom Holland's essay of 13 October on the Christian roots of European secularism. Here the author responds

Resourceful thinking

  • By Tristan Quinn
  • 06 November

Crowdsourcing: How the Power of the Crowd is Driving the Future of Business
Jeff Howe Random House, 312pp, £17.99

Reading the signs

  • By Owen Hatherley
  • 30 October

Otto Neurath: the Language of the Global Polis
Nader Vossoughian
Netherlands Architecture Institute, 176pp, £37.50

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Rise of the new Anglo-world order

Rise of the new Anglo-world order

It's an old controversy that was reignited this autumn by the remarks of a Nobel Prize judge: is American literature too insular, preoccupied only with the home country? If so, what else should we be reading in the age of globalisation?

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These values we hold dear

  • By Shami Chakrabarti
  • 16 October 2008

Europe's first revolution

  • By Tom Holland
  • 09 October 2008

Crisis, what crisis?

  • By Dominic Sandbrook
  • 02 October 2008

Against the evidence

  • By Richard Wilson
  • 18 September 2008

All in the game

  • By Ed Hancox
  • 11 September 2008

Songs of freedom

  • By Paul Evans
  • 04 September 2008

Good news is no news

  • By Angela Neustatter
  • 28 August 2008

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