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Cancel any time T's and sees apply. Good evening ladies and gentlemen I'm Jason Cowley editor of the New Statesman

magazine.

Welcome to the fine setting of One Bird Cage Walk

and to this New Statesman lecture.

The New Statesman celebrated its centenary last year,

and I'm delighted to say that the old publication is once again in robust health

both as a magazine and in various digital versions. I'm delighted also that the first minister of Scotland, Mr Alex

Salmon, is here with us this evening at our invitation to make the case for

Scottish independence right here in Westminster. Now when I went to see

the first minister at his official residence, Butte House in Edinburgh last summer

he said to me that we're in the early stages of what he called a phony war.

We're just clearing the ground, you said.

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