Blogs
Welcome to our blog pages – an eclectic mix of comedy, politics, religion, culture and current affairs. Prepare to be challenged and entertained and don’t forget to comment!
Our Blog Index
Ben's Blog
New Statesman website editor Ben Davies's weekly ramblings plus feedback on hot online topics
CultureTech
Iain Simons casts his excitable red-eyes over the entire sphere of CultureTech. He will in turn be commentator, evangelist, analyst and oft-frustrated lover as he ambles along the cutting edge
Science decoded
Paul Rodgers cuts through the technical jargon to explain what's really going on in science
The Faith Column
Every week a different believer gives the inside track on their religion or philosophy.
Recent blog posts
A Credit Crunch is just some kind of half-arsed pudding. We’re going to get through it by enjoying generosity and sharing simple pleasures, just like the good old Queen said
- By AL Kennedy
- 05 January 2009
The best of the predictions for the new year - Paul Evans trawls the blogosphere on your behalf
- By Paul Evans
- 05 January 2009
The blogosphere tries to cope with Christmas, the curious news that William Hague is still Tory leader (perhaps that's why they're plunging in the polls), and more
- By Paul Evans
- 19 December 2008
If only that shoe had hit Bush. It wouldn’t have compensated for the hundreds of thousands of people who have died in Iraq, but it would have been a good start
- 41 comments
- By Richard Herring
- 19 December 2008
What a difference a year made - and for no one more so than Gordon Brown, who earns five of my coveted parliamentary awards
- 18 comments
- By Martin Bright
- 18 December 2008
I've just been re-reading my predications for 2008. How do you think I did?
- 7 comments
- By Martin Bright
- 15 December 2008
- By Harry Williams
- 15 December 2008
Brown: hero or humourless steamroller?
The best of the politics blogs with, this week, no small amount of amusement about Gordon Brown's 'saving the world' gaffe...
- 2 comments
- By Paul Evans
- 12 December 2008
It can be hard to believe James Purnell and Ed Balls are in the same party. But they are hyperactive, talented and have their eye on a larger prize
- 9 comments
- By Martin Bright
- 11 December 2008
We pay tribute to Oliver Postgate who has sadly passed away. He wrote for newstatesman.com between November 2006 and February 2008. He'll be missed by generations
- 7 comments
- By Ben Davies
- 09 December 2008
