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!
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Crip's Column
Victoria Brignell charts and challenges the difficulties and stereotypes she and other disabled people face on a daily basis.
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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
The perils of the electric wheelchair have left Victoria Brignell stranded on more than one occasion. Here she talks us the highs and lows of her different sets of wheels
- By Victoria Brignell
- 07 October 2008
In her newstatesman.com blog, Green Party leader Caroline Lucas says it's time to make finance the servant of the economy and gives her vision for coping with the meltdown
- By Caroline Lucas
- 07 October 2008
This week, the Faith Column explores CaoDai. Hum D. Bui starts the series with a look at its history and leadership hierarchies.
- By Hum D Bui
- 07 October 2008
Nadhmi Auchi and the New Statesman
The brilliant people at Wikileaks have produced a very useful collection of articles about stories removed from media websites following legal threats from an Iraqi billionaire
- 2 comments
- By Martin Bright
- 06 October 2008
Good wishes to those troubled bankers, the perils of sniffing damp repelling liquid and how to touch the arm of strangers and not quite get away with it
- 1 comment
- By AL Kennedy
- 06 October 2008
I spent two days in between Labour and Conservative conferences in Washington, where I had been invited to talk at a symposium on whistleblowing
- By Martin Bright
- 06 October 2008
- By Annie McDermott
- 06 October 2008
Was the Mandelson deal done over breakfast in Manchester?
Did Lord Sainsbury have a role in getting Peter Mandelson his new job?
- 2 comments
- By Martin Bright
- 04 October 2008
SFTW - 'if Raymond Briggs went into casual web-games they would probably look at bit like this'. Iain Simons chooses some fabulous games for you to while away a few hours with. Enjoy wisely...
- By Iain Simons
- 03 October 2008
New Statesman political editor Martin Bright reacts to the astonishing news that Gordon Brown has found a place in his cabinet for former enemy Peter Mandelson
- 4 comments
- By Martin Bright
- 03 October 2008
