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Life at Findhorn
A fortnightly insight into life inside one of Britain's best known eco-villages – Findhorn – by resident Jonathan Dawson.
Richard Herring
Comic Richard Herring gives us his sideways look at politics, people and everyday life
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- O'Donoghue, Bernard
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- O'Farrell, John
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- O'Hara, Carolyn
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- O'Neill, Martin
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- O'Shaughnessy, Hugh
- O'Sullivan, Jack
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- Oaten, Mark
- Oates, Joyce Carol
- Oatley, Giles
- Obermiller, Phillip
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- Olden, Mark
- Oldfield, Claire
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From our archive
Featuring contributors such as GB Shaw, EM Forster, WH Auden, JB Priestly and Kingsley Martin, selections from the New Statesman back archive dating back to 1913 can be viewed in the From our archive column
Youth
Moral panic about Britain’s juvenile delinquents is nothing new. Nor are suggestions of what should be done to deal with them. Even during the Second World War both the government and the general public were alarmed by what they saw as the growing problem of unruly youth. This New Statesman article argued that the answer must be much more training and education for the young, and that a reoriented national service scheme, even in peacetime, could also help.
Trains and classes
During the Second World War, the novelist J B Priestley was seen as the national voice of common sense. A regular contributor to the New Statesman, he wrote perceptively about the British popular mood. In this wartime article, Priestley identified a growing resentment among railway users over the distinction between first- and third-class seats. In their irritation, he saw an expression of changing attitudes towards the concept of “class”
Behind Serb lines
The recent capture of the Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic in Belgrade has revived memories of the terrible events that took place in the former Yugoslavia during the 1990s. Karadzic has been charged with genocide and crimes against humanity for his policy of ethnic cleansing of Muslims and Croats. With this eyewitness report, published by the New Statesman in summer 1995, Paul Hockenos provided a vivid picture of life in Dr Karadzic's Republika Srpska.
