1 hour ago by Sara Harowitz

A 1968 interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono that was never published in full has been unearthed, according to NME.com. Keele University student Maurice Hindle, along with a friend, went to Lennon’s Surrey home to conduct the six-hour interview, which has now been published in the New Statesman. H ...

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8 hours ago by Jonathan

Jennifer Jones, star of the greatest film ever made in Shropshire, has died at the age of 90. Her obituary is in the Daily Telegraph. The photograph above (borrowed from the marvellous Powell & Pressburger tribute site) shows her as Hazel Woodus in the 1950 film Gone to Earth. It was based on a nove ...

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7 days ago by Antifascist

This morning I just sent out an email pushing for further names for our Copenhagen letter. As of this morning over 11,000 people had signed our letter letting the Climate Conference know that Griffin, who denies Climate Change, does not speak for us. For those who haven't signed our letter you can d ...

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18 days ago by greatemancipator

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” Blanch ...

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18 days ago by greatemancipator

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” Blanch ...

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22 days ago by steveshark

Aside from the main issues – such as the economy, unemployment, the war in Afghanistan and the environment – it looks as if one of the policies that the Tories will be standing on is the raising of the Inheritance Tax threshold from £325 000 to £2 000 000. Labour, on the other hand, are promising a ...

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22 days ago by admin

Austin American-Statesman: About two years ago, Austin teenager Geoffrey Abdallah told his father, a restaurant industry veteran, that he really needed to check out the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema franchise. “You need to go,” Geoffrey, a big fan of the movie-with-a-restaurant concept, told Norman Abdall ...

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23 days ago by felipeoliva

Segue uma tradução não autorizada do artigo “ Waking the Dead“, de Terry Eagleton, publicado em 12.11.2009 no New Statesman. A reprodução da tradução é naturalmente permitida, desde que não se ganhe dinheiro com isso. No texto, Eagleton interpreta a ascensão de Obama com base nas reflexões sobre his ...

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24 days ago by Anthony Pearce

Twitter has had quite the month. Its ascension from mere social-network to a serious apparatus of democracy and free expression has been a slow one, but the last five weeks may prove catalytic in this transformation. First there was the Trafigura incident. Carter-Ruck, the libel-law firm, imposed a ...

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24 days ago by DollarMan

New Statesman - Leader: World leaders need to become green heroes too http://www.newstatesman.com/environme... "It may seem impossible to imagine," wrote Elizabeth Kolbert in Field Notes from a Catastrophe, her important book about climate change, "that a technologically advanced society could choos ...

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