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From the Editor…
23 November 2009
Welcome to the New Statesman website. Whether you are a new reader or an existing one - online or via the magazine - I hope you'll enjoy the great writing, fresh ideas and provocative debate that make the New Statesman Britain's award-winning current affairs weekly
From this week, here is a selection of my favourites…
- The NS Interview: Omar Bin Laden By Mehdi Hasan
- Cloud control By Bjorn Lomborg
- We’re all with the brand By Will Self
Cover story
20 green heroes and villains: Heroes
On 7 December, world leaders and negotiators will meet in Copenhagen to discuss the future of our planet. As the debate intensifies, the New Statesman’s panel of environmental experts have chosen their heroes and villains – politicians, activists, companies and institutions.
Features
Cloud control
Drastic and immediate cuts in carbon emissions, as advocated by most of the green lobby, are an expensive way of doing very little good. They would reduce growth and especially hurt the world’s poor. But there is another, better way
Night at the Museum
As the guardians of the souls of our communities, local cultural institutions must fight and adapt in the face of budget cuts.
Dawn of the dead
The dark shadow of history has always loomed over Stephen Poliakoff’s dramas. But Glorious 39, set on the eve of war, is bleaker than ever
Interview
Regulars
New Statesman Leader
Leader: World leaders need to become green heroes too
Without the requisite political will, the prospects for our planet remain bleak
First Thoughts
Nurses, cricket and anti-Semitism
We should value nurses' distinctive qualities, not force them to take degrees
The Politics Column
Like it or not, Brown’s a war leader
Public patience with the Afghanistan war is running out. Brown may yet regret becoming a war leader
Performance
Chick Corea/Béla Fleck
Sholto Byrnes applauds a jazz performance that is full of fireworks
Books
The Condition of England
Charles Masterman’s devastating anatomy of Edwardian Britain, reissued on its 100th anniversary, foreshadows our own times
