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• Happy birthday, National Robbery

  
  will-self.com — Authority: 422
  “The odds are that, if you’re reading this piece, you don’t play the National Lottery. I say ‘play’ advisedly because, for millions of your fellow citizens, there’s nothing playful about the Lottery at all. Yes, they may say, they’re only having a bit of a flutter, but in the back of their clouded minds, ...
  2 days ago

• BoE Governor Mervyn King kept me in dark on economy, says David Blanchflower

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  David Blanchflower, the former Bank of England policymaker, has accused Mervyn King of keeping vital information from him at the height of the financial crisis.
  3 days ago

• Happiness

  
  The Great E-mancipator — Authority: 412
  One of the Columnists in the New Statesman magazine is Professor David Blanchflower , of Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA and the University of Stirling, Scotland. I’m no expert in economics but since my son is a student of it, I’ve tried to grasp the fundamentals, which Professor “Danny”  Blanchflower ...
  6 days ago

• How (nottle) to get a hung Parliament

  
  Next Left — Authority: 578
  Hyperventilating about hypothetical hung parliaments seems to be all the rage. The New Statesman does not just cover every historical , psephological and constitutional angle, but even editorialises the Lab-Lib concordat for transparency and reform that might emerge from a smoke-filled room next May. Martin ...
  1 week ago

• Subway: Attack of the one-foot sandwich

  
  will-self.com — Authority: 422
  “If you’re anything like me, you probably find the global dominance of the Subway sandwich chain bewildering. There are now 32,046 Subway branches in 90 countries, making it the biggest fast-food purveyor the world has ever seen. But for why? The outlets are nothing but tiled slots with an interior design ...
  1 week ago

• No, Mehdi, I Havent Turned on the New Statesman

  
  Iain Dale's Diary — Authority: 663
  The New Statesman s senior political editor Mehdi Hasan has written a blogpost titled IAIN DALE & ME . I must admit, I wasnt sure what to expect. It didnt start well. I have an admission: prior to joining the New Statesman in June, I disliked Iain Dale . It didnt end well, either. Iain, you can remain a ...
  1 week ago

• Why No One Reads the New Statesman Anymore (Part 96)

  
  Guy Fawkes' blog — Authority: 647
  James Macintyre says that his Downing Street sources say that their private polling shows Labour ahead in the polls. Not sure if this is the same source that told him Blair would be President of Europe … Tagged: New Statesman
  1 week ago

• Osama bin Ladens son wants to work for UN

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  In an interview with the New Statesman, the fourth eldest son of the worlds most wanted man said that he "passionately wants to try to stop violence". Asked whether he plans to enter politics or public life, Mr bin Laden said: "I do not believe that I would be a good politician – I have a habit of speaking the truth, ...
  2 weeks ago

• 1963 and all that

  
  Malcolm Redfellow's Home Service — Authority: 126
  Those who have not been catching Dominic Sandbrook’s What if … alternative histories for the New Statesman immediately should. Previous pieces have gently mused on topics such as: what would have been the consequences of the 1975 Euro-referendum going the other way ( Britain … its entrenched social ...
  2 weeks ago

• Aspen – the brand

  
  will-self.com — Authority: 422
  “Last summer I was walking through an interminable caravan park atop a cliff in Norfolk when I began clocking the makes of the vans. There was the Windsor and the Coronation and the Aspen. Naturally, the Aspen, I said to myself as I plodded past its gemütlich net curtains, what could be better branding for a mobile ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bin Laden’s son wants to join the UN to promote peace

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 724
  London, Nov 19 (IANS) The son Osama bin Laden favoured to carry on his work says he would like to work for the United Nations instead — as a peace campaigner.In a magazine interview published Thursday following launch of a book about him, Omar bin Laden - the fourth eldest son of the Al Qaeda [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Labour Party to use Against the Odds film in election fight

  
  Gordon's Republic — Authority: 531
  The New Statesman reports that the Labour Party is to use the short Against the odds film as part of its effort to fight the next election after a campaign by bloggers. Its a short history of the Labour movement and is stirring stuff. It begins with the words: "Its the fighters and believers who change our world" ...
  2 weeks ago

• Jason Cowley: big fish at the BSME awards

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  The New Statesman editor pipped Anglers Mail and Mother & Baby magazines to a prize Congratulations to Jason Cowley, once of this parish but now of the New Statesman , for winning the Special Interest and Current Affairs prize at last weeks British Society of Magazine Editors awards. A well-deserved gong, but a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Starbucks: A double shot of sanctimony

  
  will-self.com — Authority: 422
  “I visited the Pacific Northwest quite a bit in the early 1990s. Seattle struck me as having a definite coffee hue, just as many other cities have a predominant colour (the piss-green of Paris springs to mind). A coffee hue, and a coffee smell. Starbucks began frothing in the 1970s, and the chain was set to lash out ...
  3 weeks ago

• Speccie v Staggers on Communism and Circulation

  
  Guy Fawkes' blog — Authority: 647
  In the week we celebrate the Fall of the Wall (more in this coming week’s Guidogram ) the covers of our political weeklies are worth comparing.  The Speccie reveals and condemns Soviet agents at the highest levels of the Labour Party.  The New Statesman glories in a cover with a flattering (old) picture of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Where the Wilde things are

  
  will-self.com — Authority: 422
  “I wonder what Monsieur Vigneron, a commissaire général de la Société des Artistes Français no less, makes of it all, assuming that the comings and goings have rendered his shade unquiet. After all, in 1903, when he was buried at the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, at the reasonable, if not advanced, age of ...
  4 weeks ago

• Real Meals: The Indian Restaurant

  
  will-self.com — Authority: 422
  “I suppose I was looking for an archetype that no longer exists. A fusty realm of red flock wallpaper and piped sitar music. I was in search of that unreal establishment, the Indian restaurant – unreal because the vast majority are in fact run by Bangladeshis; but unreal also because, just as second- and ...
  4 weeks ago

• John Kampfner calls for changes to libel laws

  
  The Wire — Authority: 479
  Index on Censorship, the campaign group which fights for freedom of speech, will next week publish a report aimed at convincing politicians that current libel laws must be changed.John Kampfner, the former New Statesman editor turned chief executive of the campaigning group, said he would like to see the libel laws ...
  4 weeks ago

• New Statesman picks Jon Bernstein as deputy editor

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  John Bernstein, former multimedia editor of Channel 4 News, succeeds Emily Mann as deputy editor of New Statesman The New Statesman has appointed Jon Bernstein, the former multimedia editor for Channel 4 News, as its deputy editor. Bernstein will join the left-of-centre political weekly magazine on 12 November, ...
  5 weeks ago

• Up to a point, Chief Rabbi

  
  Next Left — Authority: 578
  The Jewish Chronicle reports the Polish Chief Rabbis latest statement on Michal Kaminskis controversial political history An email sent to the think-tank Policy Exchange, Rabbi Schudrich said: "There is no doubt that Kaminski is a strong friend of the State of Israel. He himself has spoken out against ...
  5 weeks ago

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