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Our Blog Index

A Different Way Of Thinking

How society approaches disability from the perspective of someone with autism.

Arts Blog

Reviews and news from the world of the arts

Ben's Blog

New Statesman website editor Ben Davies's weekly ramblings plus feedback on hot online topics

Best of the Politics Blogs

What's been happening in the political blogosphere

Bright's Blog

Politics uncovered by Martin Bright, New Statesman political editor

Crip's Column

View from my wheelchair - Victoria Brignell on life as a disabled person.

Elections 2008

Newstatesman.com's unrivalled analysis of the key local and London mayoral elections 2008

Life at Findhorn

A weekly insight into life inside one of Britain's best known eco-villages – Findhorn – by resident Jonathan Dawson.

New Media Awards

Coverage of the New Statesman's New Media Awards and developments in UK new media

Obsessive Compulsive

The peripatetic life of Scotland's foremost writer

Richard Herring

Comic Richard Herring’s sideways look at politics, people and everyday life

Science decoded

Paul Rodgers cuts through the technical jargon to explain what's really going on in science

Sian Berry

The Green Party activist and anti-4WD campaigner writes for http://www.newstatesman.com

Simon Munnery

The hilarious blog from Britain’s most surreal comedian

The Faith Column

Every week a different believer gives the inside track on their religion or philosophy.

Recent blog posts

A Big Beast Speaks

Paul Routledge's catacylsmic shift in allegiance

  • 3 comments
  • By Martin Bright
  • 18 July 2008

Hazel Blears and IslamExpo

Hazel Blears explains her opposition to IslamExpo and the politics of the Muslim Brotherhood-Hamas

  • 28 comments
  • By Martin Bright
  • 18 July 2008

Dweeb or Obama?

The blogosphere is set alight by David Cameron (well nearly), Blur v Evans and advising the Tories about skunk

  • 1 comment
  • By Paul Evans
  • 18 July 2008

Ragdoll Cannon

NS CultureTech offers a diversion from the things you really should be doing. Something for the weekend selects pearls from the deep mire of digital tat that fills your browser

  • By Iain Simons
  • 18 July 2008

After Gordon

There are even those who relish the idea of leaving Cameron in charge of the worsening economic situation

  • 8 comments
  • By Martin Bright
  • 17 July 2008

Libel Tourism in the UK

The centre-right think tank Policy Exchange hosted a fascinating discussion on the UK's libel laws

  • 10 comments
  • By Martin Bright
  • 16 July 2008

Wedding and windbills

Is the credit crunch going to have an impact on guest numbers at eco-villages? Rhiannon Hanfman reveals this and more.

  • By Rhiannon Hanfman
  • 18 July 2008

Second Life teleporting

How (and if) we might be able to travel freely between virtual worlds is already the source of some speculation which may now be made real before we anticipated

  • By Iain Simons
  • 15 July 2008

A Demos event worth turning up to

Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody, was a must see event

  • 9 comments
  • By Martin Bright
  • 15 July 2008

Hitler's head

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...

  • By Ben Davies
  • 15 July 2008

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