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  New Statesman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The New Statesman was founded in 1913 by Sidney and Beatrice Webb with the support of George Bernard Shaw and other prominent members of the Fabian Society, and its first editor was Clifford Sharp.
In 1993, the Statesman was sued by the prime minister, John Major, after it published an article that discussed rumours that he was having an extramarital affair with a cook.
The Statesman was rescued by a takeover by the businessman Philip Jeffrey but in 1996, after prolonged boardroom wrangling over Jeffrey's plans, it was sold to Geoffrey Robinson, the Labour MP and businessman.
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 New Statesman: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The new statesman was an award-winning british sitcom from the 1980s satirising the conservative government of the time....
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Keep left was a pamphlet published in the united kingdom in 1947 by the new statesman, written by michael foot, richard crossman and ian mikardo...
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/n/ne/new_statesman.htm   (2092 words)

  
 New Scientist Breaking News - Invention: Shocking airport scans
So the new wand will have a hidden secret — a transformer which steps the detector’s battery power up to 100 kilovolts and feeds it to disguised metal electrodes at the end of the wand.
The new technology from Philips continually — and very rapidly — increases the amplification as the background noise level rises, but treats the vowels and consonants differently.
The cellphone industry is always looking for new must-have features to encourage people to junk their existing phones and buy new ones.
www.newscientist.com /article.ns?id=dn7777   (679 words)

  
 New Statesman
The New Statesman received a hostile reception from the former Fabian, H.
Kingsley Martin was editor of the New Statesman and Nation for over thirty years and during this time he established it as Britain's leading intellectual weekly.
Kingsley Martin was appointed editor of the New Statesman in 1930.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /Jstatesman.htm   (1550 words)

  
 The New Statesman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rik Mayall as Alan B'stard in The New Statesman
It was written by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran at the request of, and as a starring vehicle for, its principal actor, Rik Mayall.
This is an episode list for the British sitcom The New Statesman.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_New_Statesman   (1122 words)

  
 New Statesman & Society
New Zealand director Peter Jackson made his name with no-budget sci-fi splatter and zombie blood baths.
His new film, Heavenly Creatures, is about the intimate passion between two teenage girls in 1950s New Zealand, and features some lovely frocks and gardens.
Jackson's speciality to date has been to leave nothing to the imagination, so it is understandable that he should come a little unstuck now that his central concern is imagination itself.
www.members.tripod.com /peter_jackson_online/hc/reviews/review.htm   (892 words)

  
 ECHELON: NSA's Global Electronic Interception
New satellite stations and monitoring centres are to be built around the world, and a chain of new satellites launched, so that NSA and its British counterpart, the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) at Cheltenham, may keep abreast of the burgeoning international telecommunications traffic.
The new satellite spy bases are at Geraldton in northern Australia and Blenheim, New Zealand.
When the new Interception of Communications Act was passed in 1985, however, it was obviously designed to make special provision for operations like ECHELON or Project P415 to trawl all international communications to and from Britain.
duncan.gn.apc.org /echelon-dc.htm   (2752 words)

  
 The journalism and films of John Pilger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger writes about the coming G8 summit in Scotland and says that the illusion of an anti establishment crusade led by pop stars serves to dilute a great political movement of anger.
In the issue of the Observer announcing "victory for millions" was a secondary news item that British arms sales to Africa had passed 1 billion.
Much of the propaganda that passes for news in our own society is given to immobilising and pacifying people and diverting them from the idea that they can confront power.
pilger.carlton.com /print/133469   (1115 words)

  
 ZNet |Afghanistan | America's Bid For Global Dominance
The Project for the New American Century was formed, along with the American Enterprise Institute, the Hudson Institute and others that have since merged the ambitions of the Reagan administration with those of the current Bush regime.
Perle is one of the founders of the Project for the New American Century, the PNAC.
Under cover of propaganda about Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction, the Bush regime is developing new weapons of mass destruction that undermine international treaties on biological and chemical warfare.
www.zmag.org /content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=15&ItemID=2744   (1129 words)

  
 New Statesman - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about New Statesman
Today the New Statesman is an influential political and literary review, and is one of the biggest selling left-wing periodicals in Britain.
The Nation, founded 1907, had superseded the Speaker, founded 1890, and both supported the extreme radical wing of the Liberal party.
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /New+Statesman   (131 words)

  
 BBC - Comedy Guide - The New Statesman
The New Statesman came about after Rik Mayall, impressed by Shine On Harvey Moon, invited writers Marks and Gran to concoct a vehicle for him.
Various TV personalities appeared as themselves in The New Statesman; additionally, seen in character roles, were Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Helen Lederer, Celia Imrie, Don Henderson and John Sessions, the latter as a cocaine-addicted peer who was accidentally killed when someone tried to assassinate B'Stard.
For its first series, authenticity was added to The New Statesman by way of a remarkably realistic studio set representing the inside of the House of Commons.
www.bbc.co.uk /comedy/guide/articles/n/newstatesmanthe_7774820.shtml   (1368 words)

  
 Let's face it - the state has lost its mind
Instead, he warned that America's new targets were those living in "whole regions of the world" which "simmer in resentment and tyranny" and where "violence will gather, and multiply in destructive power, and cross the most defended borders, and raise a mortal threat".
Britain, with its profound understanding of imperialism, is a pioneer of this new danger.
For the latest in current and cultural affairs subscribe to the New Statesman print edition.
www.informationclearinghouse.info /article8821.htm   (1694 words)

  
 Middle East Online
We appeal to you to urge the UN [to prevent] the new massacre which the Americans and the puppet government are planning to start soon in Fallujah, as well as many parts of the country." Not a word of this was reported in the mainstream in Britain and America.
Eighty-four per cent of the deaths were caused by the actions of the Americans and the British, and 95 per cent of these were killed by air attacks and artillery fire, most of whom were women and children.
With one exception, none of the scientists who compiled this rigorously peer-reviewed report was asked to substantiate their work until ten days later when the pro-war Observer published an interview with the editor of the Lancet, slanted so that it appeared he was "answering his critics".
www.middle-east-online.com /english?id=12074   (2082 words)

  
 [legacy] :: New Statesman Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Last year, a shiny new branch of Starbucks was launched in London's Leicester Square with a glitzy, no-expenses-spared party.
The campaigners who are fighting this kind of mentality draw on a heritage from the left that stretches back at least to Guy Debord and the situationists, who sprang to prominence in 1968.
New Media Awards 2002 aims to discover the ideas, plans and projects that explore new ways to connect citizens to the world.
www.rtmark.com /legacy/more/articles/gatt.orgnewstatesmanmention.html   (1364 words)

  
 New Statesman - Life - Mark Thomas - won't give the world a Coke
Even the company was forced to admit its problems: "Our business growth is not what we would hope." The 170 redundancies it announced in January are a more accurate reflection of its woes.
Marketed in trusty natural-blue hues - the bottled-water seller's favourite - and with a bottle design associated with sports and health drinks, the new product is, according to some close to the company, ready to launch in the summer.
The last thing it needs is War on Want lining up alongside Unison as supporters of the boycott and creating any kind of momentum on the issue.
www.btinternet.com /~davidbeaumont/msf/newstatecoke.htm   (1032 words)

  
 New Statesman
And inevitably, whenever the shows begin to sag and the ratings drop, a new villain who taps right into that American state of mind is introduced to reverse the decline.
Thus the ST crews seldom make moral judgements about other cultures and are always open and willing to learn from new aliens they encounter - a direct reference to contemporary dilemmas about the limits of the political and cultural representation of various others and what it means to be responsible in these postmodern times.
It is also a thought that has produced a new variety of orientalism.
www.riseofthewest.net /thinkers/sardar10.htm   (1740 words)

  
 New Statesman
What's worse, a raft of new evidence suggests that, far from having Aids on the run, the West is encountering more problems with the disease than has been let on.
A new ad from Merck Sharp & Dohme features a couple in soft focus pointing a huge gun, under the headline: "Aids, your days are numbered!" Presumably this is news to the retrovirus: as of late, the creature has actually been on a little roll of its own.
If anything, they have a whole new set of problems on their hands (resistance and side effects) that is all of their own doing.
www.whatisaids.com /newstatesman.htm   (1891 words)

  
 Technorati Tag: New Statesman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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Your complacency about Kosovo (Editorial, 10 May) will go down as one of the least heroic episodes in the New Statesman's history.
As Melanie McDonagh's excellent article ("Why partition is no good for Kosovo") in the same issue shows, both editorial and letter simply do not answer the realities of this war.
The old anti-Americans march hand in hand with the Old Statesman: we look for more from Britain's premier journal of left opinion.
www.sussex.ac.uk /Users/hafa3/ns.htm   (376 words)

  
 Cannibals - Papua - Zoo Weekly - New Statesman
The reception area of the plate-glass headquarters of Emap Consumer Media in Shaftesbury Avenue, London, is normally milling with cycle couriers, bored security guards and London meejah types in kitten heels and fur-edged suede jackets carrying lattes back to their desks.
It's not where you'd expect to see a tribesman from the highlands of New Guinea, wearing a bird-of-paradise feather headdress, a shell necklace and breastplate, and feather armbands.
Zoo, he said, could not be expected to run a piece about the political situation in Papua New Guinea.
www.paulkingsnorth.net /savages.html   (549 words)

  
 "The New Statesman" (1987)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
User Comments: "The New Statesman" is a wonderfully corrupt creation from two men known previously only for their 'nice' comedy...
"The New Statesman" is a wonderfully corrupt creation from two men known previously only for their 'nice' comedy...
You may add a new episode for this TV series by clicking the button on the left.
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 Sutton Trust : Home : Reports & press articles : Press articles
In the current election campaign, new Labour says it's on the side of "hard-working families" while the old Tories say they are the voice of the "forgotten majority".
All the effort that new Labour has put into increasing the chances of the poor - all the Sure Start schemes and all Gordon Brown's measures to redistribute wealth - have merely slowed the march of inequality.
Each new wave carries high culture further away from the working class.
www.suttontrust.com /press056.asp   (1349 words)

  
 Australian Financial Review - Grumpy old men and the sleep of reason   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
It is a forensic attack on fundamentalism (religious and economic), on cultural and scientific relativism, on postmodernists, on pagans, on New Agers and everyone else whom Wheen identifies as belonging to the coalition seeking to undermine reason.
Unfortunately, the fact that Enron was the model of the new, post-regulation, corporate, weightless economy also meant that its earnings turned out to be fictional.
As for dissing the New Agers, for an old hand like Wheen this is like taking carob-covered candy from a baby.
afr.com /articles/2004/02/05/1075853995136.html   (1072 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: The New Statesman - The Complete First Series [1987]: DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Although I don't think The New Statesman was at its best until the start of the 3rd series, these first seven episodes have enough character and laughs in them to make this disc highly watchable.
Rik Mayall looking slim, young and charming, quickly asserts himself as Alan B'Stard, a, ahem, slightly right-of-centre Tory MP whose unspeakable acts of corruption and self-promotion are the basis for the plots and most of the laughs.
No act is too low for the rising star of the new right, burying nuclear waste under a primary school, sabotaging the cars of opponents, peddling hardcore pornography, anything as long as he stays in profit while staying out of the law courts.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005B1MQ   (772 words)

  
 John Kampfner :: author, broadcaster & commentator
The absence of weapons of mass destruction, the new link with terrorism that had not existed before, the upsurge in fighting, the prisoner abuses at Abu Ghraib, and Guantanamo Bay were followed by the kidnapping and killing of Kenneth Bigley.
Kerry is already talking of internationalising the "war on terror" and the war in Iraq.
This article first appeared in the New Statesman and may not be reproduced without permission.
www.jkampfner.net /articles/ns251004.html   (1463 words)

  
 New York Statesman
Intellectual, author, and social activist, Daniel Patrick Moynihan never fit neatly into anyone’s stereotype of a politician, even though his passion for New York superseded all.
The Future of New York City: A Vision of 2016
What New York will look like in just ten years.
www.newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/news/politics/columns/citypolitic/n_8546   (882 words)

  
 New Statesman
Recently, Richard Norton-Taylor disclosed in the Guardian that Britain's military establishment was concerned about the proposed new international criminal court.
Their real concern, and that of western politicians, was put by Michael Caplan, the former lawyer to General Pinochet, who questioned how Tony Blair would be able to defend himself were he charged with bombing targets in Kosovo knowing that civilians would be killed.
When he was the Foreign Office minister responsible for Iraq, Peter Hain wrote to the New Statesman, describing as preposterous the very suggestion that he, and other British ministers directly complicit in the atrocious embargo against Iraq, might be summoned to appear before the new court.
www.zmag.org /pilgerflyzone.htm   (912 words)

  
 Statesman.com | New Braunfels Unicorns
New Braunfels' P.J. Hendrie, right, fell in the 4A boys final to Eric Olson of Highland Park, 6-3, 6-7, 6-3.
News and notes: You tell us; We'll tell you; Take five; By the numbers
New Braunfels beats Klein Oak in state volleyball semifinal
www.statesman.com /sports/content/sports/highschools/New_Braunfels.html   (276 words)

  
 The A-Team Shrine > Articles
THE A-TEAM, ITV's new comedy and violence show, is already a hit in America and is likely to become a cult here.
In a Los Angeles news room cub reporter Amy Allen (winningly played by Melinda Culea) attacks her editor for refusing to rescue the missing journalist.
There's a new generation of young men watching television now; and as the polls show the vast majority of Americans don't know which side is which in Central America, they won't be well equipped for telling the good guys from the bad.
www.ateamshrine.co.uk /article2.php   (718 words)

  
 New Statesman Demolishes the Truth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In 2002, the New Statesman, a British left-wing journal, gave us an infamous front cover entitled "Kosher conspiracy" featuring a Star of David standing on top of a Union Jack, for which the editor was forced to apologize following widespread condemnation.
So perhaps it is unsurprising that the New Statesman's latest edition compares Israeli actions to those of the Nazis during Kristallnacht, the destruction of mosques by Bosnian Serbs, and the eradication of entire villages by Saddam Hussein in Iraq and the Sudanese regime in Darfur.
A senior Palestinian official boasted that they have built 6,000 homes without permits during the last 4 years, of which less than 200 were demolished by the city.
www.honestreporting.com /articles/45884734/critiques/New_Statesman_Demolishes_the_Truth.asp   (1065 words)

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