“No blacks or Arabs” for Israeli PM's visit: the latest example of French...
Hollande's silence on the alleged discrimination against black and Arab employees is indicative of the president's recent decision to chase popularity by playing to the centre-right. France’s latest...
View ArticleNZ parliament bursts into song as same-sex marriage bill is passed
Pokarekare ana / Nga wai o waiapu / Whiti atu koe hine / Marino ana e.Everyone and their mother has posted this video, but it's too good not to share here. As the Kiwi parliament voted to allow same...
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4Chan plays racist Where's Wally to find the Boston bomber
There's enough misinformation coming from the traditional media itself over the bombings, but Reddit and 4Chan think they're helping.The Boston bombings have an interesting quirk to them: the bomber,...
View ArticleWhen crowdsourcing goes wrong: Reddit, Boston and missing student Sunil Tripathi
Reddit's initial hunt to find the Boston bombers devolved rapidly into a sort of "racist Where's Wally", profiling – racially and otherwise – scores of innocent people.Update, 20 April:The two suspects...
View ArticleForty years on, Bangladesh is still in the shadows of war
A focus on unity and closure is desperately needed. The blood-red circle on a vast vivid green flag flutters in the skyline, with the honking taxis and busses below. Throngs of people join in the...
View Article19 April 1952: Leonard Woolf asks, is the UN still-born?
From our correspondence.19 April 1952SIR,-Mr Pollak's letter about my review and Uno shows me that I cannot make myself intelligible about anything to anyone. The whole point of what I wrote was that...
View ArticleIt is time for Turkey to recognise the historical fact of the Armenian Genocide
It is now 98 years since 1.5m Armenians were systematically massacred. Recognising what happened is the only way to help us all move forward.It has been 98 years since - following a premeditated plan...
View ArticleKostas Vaxevanis: "The only way for the Greek people to know about their own...
The Greek journalist, who was instrumental in the publication of the "Lagarde list" of major tax evaders in October 2012, talks to the NS's Daniel Trilling. Kostas Vaxevanis is Greek journalist. As...
View ArticleChile’s slow thaw: Benny Pollack on the "NO" campaign
30 September 1988.25 years ago Benny Pollack covered the lead up to the 1988 democratic Chilean referendum, which saw Pinochet loose the presidency, ending 15 years of military rule. Pollack had been...
View ArticleZuma’s final battle for control of the ANC
The power struggle between President Zuma and trade union leader Zwelinzima Vavi is a prelude to a battle for wider control of the political landscape. Today, Julius Malema appears in court. Today the...
View ArticleAustralia's Tony Abbott is a man for everyone and no one
It remains far from clear whether Tony Abbott can win September's election, but his campaign so far is a disturbing example of politics at its most crass and exploitative. On the 4 April, in the great...
View ArticleChild abuse: can India afford to remain in denial?
Traditional notions of the Indian family allow child abuse to happen with impunity. Last week in the Indian capital Delhi two men drank, watched porn and then lured a five year old from her play area...
View ArticleWhy is Britain rolling out the red carpet for the UAE's Sheikh Khalifa?
Three British citizens continue to be held under appalling conditions in the United Arab Emirates, while the Government prepares to host the country's unelected leader for a state visit.On Tuesday next...
View ArticleAfter a decade of Darfur it’s time to stop appeasing Sudan’s criminal cabal
The number of victims continues to rise.The UK has appeased some extremely dubious leaders of oppressive regimes over the years. Today, as we mark the tenth anniversary of the start of systematic...
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Obama at the White House Correspondents' Dinner: "I'm not the strapping young...
The President zings it all over the place.President Obama really let himself go at this year's White House Correspondents' Dinner. For starters, he came on stage to DJ Khaled's "All I Do Is Win",...
View ArticleOwner of collapsed factory caught at Bangladesh-India border
Sohel Rana arrested trying to flee the country.The owner of the Rana Plaza factory complex, which collapsed on Wednesday killing almost 400 people, has been arrested on the border between Bangladesh...
View ArticleWhen the NS met Malcolm X
12 June 1964.At the recent New Statesman debate on the motion "Did the Left Win the 20th Century", one of the strongest arguments in favour was the improvement in global race relations. 50 years ago...
View ArticleThe sorrows of Mr Weak
Since the minister in charge of tax avoidance was forced to admit to a secret Swiss bank account, François Hollande’s entire government has begun to look shaky. How did it go so wrong, so fast?One...
View ArticleDare to dream – lessons from Sarajevo in times of war and peace
Felix Martin's "Real Money" column.Don’t dream dreams.” That was the infamous advice dispensed by David Owen to the people of the besieged city of Sarajevo during one of his missions there in 1992....
View ArticleChaudhry Zulfiqar Ali, prosecutor over Benazir Bhutto assassination, murdered...
Ali was gunned down in Islamabad’s G9 area this morning as he drove to a court hearing for the Bhutto case.Five years after Pakistan’s former prime minister, Benazir Bhutto, was assassinated as she...
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