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Gideon Donald keeps a watchful eye on Cameron's Conservatives
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Sebastian Shakespeare on the people, the places, the events
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Muslim comic Shazia Mirza gives us her take on religion, politics and her life as a stand-up
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The way I see it
Key figures from the world of the arts tackle 10 existential questions
Theatre
Andrew Billen follows the good and the bad in British theatre
This England
A look at some of the country's stranger goings on
Travels
Places to go and see plus some of the issues that tourism creates around the world
World Citizen
Martin Jacques and John Pilger offer a radical and internationalist view of politics
New Statesman Leader
We hate to say it, but there is a third way
The left should show that it too, can be thrifty in straitened times. But that doesn't mean timidly accepting the smaller-state proposals of the Tories
New Statesman Leader
Oil is still a dark stain on Iraq
First Thoughts
I need a cashpoint coach
. . . on how the media and EastEnders went local and loco over Jacko.
Politics
A fresh approach?
Could a mixture of tax rises and spending cuts, public service reform and constituonal change be a winning strategy?
Commons Confidential
The latest whispers from Westminster
World Citizen
A sense of an ending
Washington must cut the umbilical cords that ties it to Tel Aviv. If it doesn’t, the conflict in the Middle East will hasten American decline
Film
Public Enemies (15)
Dazzling visuals can’t disguise a lack of character in this 1930s crime flick
Television
Revelations: How to Find God
Jon Ronson rather breezed through his sojourn among the spiritually eager
Radio
He’s just not that into you, Miss Eyre
How would the great romances of literature have fared in the self-help era?
Travels
Nothing is as it seems
The new Magritte Museum gives William Cook a fresh perspective on Brussels, the capital of surrealism
Cricket's revolution
The Ashes and globalisation
Ziauddin Sardar
Move over viagra
Religion
Does God hate women?
Art
Medals of dishonour
James Macintyre
Cameron the bully?
Canada
The new dope lords
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Revelations
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Brussels and surrealism
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