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Chile’s slow thaw: Benny Pollack on the "NO" campaign

By Benny Pollack - 22 April 16:05

30 September 1988.

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19 April 1952: Leonard Woolf asks, is the UN still-born?

By Leonard Woolf - 19 April 15:59

From our correspondence.

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Remembering Greenham Common

By Kate Hudson - 18 April 12:15

Kate Hudson, General Secretary of CND, recalls her first trip to Greenham Common.

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The changing face of the New Statesman, 1913-2013

By Helen Lewis - 12 April 9:46

Between the covers.

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Beatrice and Sidney Webb, the founders of the New Statesman. Photograph: Getty I

Leader: the world movement towards collectivism

By New Statesman - 12 April 8:50

The first New Statesman leader, published on 12 April 1913.

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"No more than an imposing folly": James Fenton at Mentmore

By James Fenton - 11 April 17:53

20 May 1977.

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Edmund Wilson's Words of Ill-Omen: Massive

By Edmund Wilson - 11 April 13:08

The American man of letters gives guidance to writers and journalists on both sides of the Atlantic.

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11 April 1959: An undergraduate asks "is chastity outmoded?"

By The Old Statesman - 11 April 11:54

From our correspondence.

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The first Isssue evs

By New Statesman - 10 April 11:13

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Margaret Thatcher: feminist icon?

By Helen Lewis - 08 April 14:19

"I hate feminism. It is poison," she reportedly told her adviser Paul Johnson.

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Martin Luther King Jr using the telephone in a hotel.

12 April 1968: “The country has lost not just Dr King but the King”

By Alan Brien - 04 April 11:34

Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated forty-five years ago today. Here, Alan Brien reports from a grief-stricken New York.

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100 good reasons to be a republican

By The Old Statesman - 04 April 10:43

Put not your trust in Princes - Psalm 146.

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The secret life of Clifford Sharp

By Adrian Smith - 03 April 8:42

Meet the first editor of the New Statesman.

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The last known photograph of Allende alive, La Moneda Palace, 1 April 1973

Why Allende had to die

By Gabriel García Márquez - 03 April 8:06

Sedition in Santiago.

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Kingsley Martin's obituary for William Beveridge (1879-1963)

By Kingsley Martin - 02 April 15:15

From the archive.

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The restless spirit of Arthur Koestler

By New Statesman - 14 March 17:01

Last train to nowhere.

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F Scott Fitzgerald with Zelda and his daughter Frances.

Fitzgerald, Woolf and J G Ballard: five classic book reviews from the NS archive

By The Old Statesman - 12 March 14:13

Reviews by Amis, Pritchett, Royde-Smith and Naipul.

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The chameleon-like John Freeman, pictured in 1946

John Freeman: Face to face with an enigma

By Hugh Purcell - 07 March 14:12

War hero, Labour MP, New Statesman editor, diplomat, TV interviewer: John Freeman, now in his nineties, combined celebrity with impenetrable privacy. In the first of a series of articles to celebrate the NS centenary, we explore the remarkable life of a man who chose never to look back.

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The day I was drugged and raped

By Andrea Dworkin - 04 March 12:12

Andrea Dworkin's harrowing account from 2000.

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Christopher Hitchens on the death of Pope Paul VI

By Christopher Hitchens - 28 February 18:26

"To judge by the tide of uncritical sentimentality which swept over the British press ... you might have thought that the Reformation had never taken place".

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