22 November 2004

From the Editor…

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Jason Cowley, Editor, New Statesman

Cover story

Police state

The police and immigration services have combined in a new "street sweep" operation that targets passengers on the London Underground and passers-by in the street. Their crime? Looking foreign

By Tom Wall

Features

The law chief who bowed to Blair

By John Kampfner

EXCLUSIVE: The NS reveals how, on the eve of the Iraq invasion, Tony Blair and George Bush leant on Lord Goldsmith, the Attorney General, to change his mind on the legality of the war

Deported from America

By Stephen Davis

Under US laws passed in the mid-1990s and now being strictly enforced, minor and long-forgotten offences can lead to jail and eventual exile, reports Stephen Davis

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How looking for work turns you into a victim

By Brendan O'Neill

By Brendan O'Neill

The Boris, Cecil and Jeffrey club

By Margaret Cook

When an alpha male is also a politician, Darwinian instincts won't be easily reined in

Back to great grandma's cooking

By Colin Tudge

The answer to obesity is the same as the answer to hunger: traditional food, locally grown

A nation in search of an identity

By Maureen Freely

Turkey appears to be moving eastwards and westwards at the same time. But is it really possible to invent a pro-market Islamism? Report

The new internationalism

By James Purnell

America will be the world's sole superpower for only a few more years. Let's get ready

NS/BT round table - Big dreams at the click of a mouse

By Matthew Broersma

The East Midlands wants to become one of the top regional economies in Europe. Its ambition is achievable - but requires a cultural revolution. Matthew Broersma reports

Regulars

New Statesman Leader

Regulate food and give consumers choice

Diary

Diary - Joan Bakewell

By Joan Bakewell

In Cape Town, some accuse the Mbeki government of genocide because of its position on Aids. Is the world listening? Or have we all gone down with genocide fatigue?

Amanda Platell can't bear the Paula Radcliffe saga

By Amanda Platell

I bump into Rod Liddle's girlfriend. Argh! I wrote that he should go back to his wife

Darcus Howe pays homage to a Caribbean mum

By Darcus Howe

How the mother of a murdered girl kept our Caribbean community together

Mark Thomas asks what is the point of Band Aid

By Mark Thomas

The trouble with Band Aid is that you can buy the single, think you have done your bit and walk away none the wiser about the causes of poverty in the developing world

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Arts & Culture

Gaijin takeaway

By Ian G Mason

America may seem an ever more dominant force in the world's film industry, but Hollywood has long been seeking inspiration from overseas, argues Ian G Mason. Welcome to the great American movie - Japanese style

House of horrors

By Richard Cork

Contemporary art - Bodies bagged up in bin liners, a hunched figure behind a shower curtain, an unseen child screaming. Richard Cork is spooked by a haunting installation