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Israel and The British Left: The Great Betrayal Revisited

An article from earlier this year continues to provoke discussion, but it should not poison other debates

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New Statesman Investigates -- Update

  • By Martin Bright
  • 18 August

Readers are voting in numbers for an investigation into the government's asylum policy

Unsanctioned penguins

  • By Jonathan Calder
  • 18 August

Stalinism is all the rage, as think tanks seek to relocate the population. Meanwhile, Telford's penguins fail to complete the correct paperwork

Sunday Roundup - 17 August 2008

  • By Martin Bright
  • 17 August

A weekly look at the politics stories and comment in the Sunday newspapers

Bright's Blog Top Ten

  • By Martin Bright
  • 15 August

Here they are: the best read articles on the blog. Feel free to read them again

Livingstone's £20,000 Chinese Takeaway

  • By Martin Bright
  • 15 August

The former mayor and his economics guru fly off on luxury Olympics junket

More blood for oil!

  • By Paul Evans
  • 15 August

Illegal invasions by imperialist armies are fine, so long they’re committed by Russia plus the common link between the Dalai Lama, Mahmoud Abbas and Elvis Presley

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Walktalk Reaches London

Gill Hicks, a survivor of the 7/7 bombings, has walked from Leeds to London for peace, on prosthetic legs

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The factions square up

  • By Martin Bright
  • 14 August 2008

Tactical Briefing

  • By Jesse Armstrong
  • 14 August 2008

Nice deal for the drug companies

  • By Peter Wilby
  • 14 August 2008

'Youth violence is not about race'

  • By David Lammy
  • 14 August 2008

Big-shed nation

  • By Joe Moran
  • 14 August 2008

Rebranding Britain

  • By Stephen Bayley
  • 14 August 2008

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

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