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Julian Clary

As with rugby, it's not the winning that counts, it's the communal showers afterwards

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Lindsey Hilsum

It's time for Beijing's bureaucrats to turn their attention to the real problems facing the country

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Rachel Cooke

Chinks in Boris Johnson's charm armoury appear in a look at his colourful ancestry

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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

Dubcek's terrible bargain

By Andrew Kopkind

The Warsaw Pact's occupation of Czechoslovakia from 21 August 1968 shocked many in the west who had hoped that the country was developing a more market-oriented socialism acceptable to the Soviet Union. This report from Prague by Kopkind, an American correspondent on the NS, reflected the ambiguities of its aftermath. It took many months before the Kremlin was able to consolidate its rule through a new, hardline communist regime.

Youth

By Anonymous

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

By J B Priestley

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”