17 October 2005
Become a subscriber and save £££
Subscribe to the New Statesman for just £82 and receive a free copy of Roy Hattersley’s In Search of England(Hardcover)
From the Editor…
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
Features
Revolutionising the future: from tennis to teleportation
10 people who could change the world
Anton Zeilinger
10 people - Johnjoe McFadden on the physicist who could just make the dream of teleportation possible
Samira Makhmalbaf
10 people - Nicole Mowbray on a precocious director whose films speak for oppressed women everywhere
Aubrey Meyer
10 people - Does this ex-musician hold the answer to the world's climate crisis?
The Emir of Qatar
10 people - Sholto Byrnes on the leader who is showing the Middle East a different route to modernity
Kierra Box
10 people - Alice O'Keeffe meets a young campaigner on a serious mission to change the world
Brewster Kahle
10 people - Becky Hogge on the egghead who hopes to create a permanent record of all human knowledge
Sania Mirza
10 people - Jason Cowley on the tennis sensation who is drawing scorn from india's muslim clerics
Victoria Hale
10 people - Her inspiring healthcare group brings cheap medicines to the world's poorest
Mo Ibrahim
10 people - Revolutionising communications in africa. His tool? The mobile phone
We need to be told
When journalists report propaganda instead of the truth, the consequences can be catastrophic - as one largely forgotten instance demonstrates
And the winner is . . .
From Miss Watermelon in Louisiana to the Face of Africa contest in Sun City, Rosie Goldsmith discovers that modern beauty pageants mirror the state of a nation, its ambition and self-image
A new age of unreason
Darwinism is on trial in the US again. But this time, argues Nicholas Wapshott, it's part of a wider malaise that glorifies the irrational and dignifies ignorance
Regulars
The Politics Column
The politics column - Martin Bright finds a surprise in Hackney
A former teacher from east London has convinced top Tories he has the key to the party's renewal. His name is Eric Ollerenshaw and Labour would be unwise to dismiss him
Commons Confidential
Village life - Kevin Maguire bids fairwell to Blair babes
Purple faces at No 11, no comment at No 10, and the DDs get the DTs over DC's DVD
Competition
Win vouchers to spend at any Tesco store
Culture
Two's company, three's a crowd
As "Degas, Sickert and Toulouse-Lautrec" opens at Tate Britain, Henry Hitchings wonders about the artistic merits of the increasingly fashionable "combination" exhibition
Bring on the Beano!
Social art - How can you make John Ruskin's radical socialism approachable today? It's easy. Robert Hewison explains
Nervous energy
Visual art - Ravaged by alcoholism, mutilated in a lovers' spat, Edvard Munch nevertheless had an instinct for survival
Radio
Radio - Rachel Cooke
Listening at random, I stumbled upon local station horrors and unexpected delights
Theatre
Michael Portillo - Life's work
Theatre - Labourers' dreams of escape falter in a brilliant tragicomedy, writes Michael Portillo Shoot the Crow Trafalgar Studios, London SW1
Film
John Lyttle - Blood-red army
Film - Vampires stalk Moscow's dark streets in a grim horror parable. By John Lyttle Night Watch (15)
Television
Andrew Billen - Love is blind
Television - With Blunkett back in action, satire struggles to outdo reality, writes Andrew Billen A Very Social Secretary (More4)
The Fan
The fan - Hunter Davies gets shirty with Andrew Martin
Anyone wise, sensible and quietly superior wouldn't respond. But I will
Books
Public affairs. Hype, spin and celebrity sleaze: is this what modern Britain is all about? Christine Hamilton takes on Max Clifford
Max Clifford: read all about it Max Clifford and Angela Levin Virgin Books, 248pp, £18.99 ISBN 1852272376
Uncivil servants. Former special adviser Stephen Wall describes life inside the No 10 media machine
The Spin-Doctor's Diary: inside No 10 with new Labour Lance Price Hodder & Stoughton, 393pp, £16.99 ISBN 0340898224
Method man
Descartes: the life of Rene Descartes and its place in his times A C Grayling Free Press, 352pp, £20 ISBN 0743231473
Domestic goddess
The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton Kathryn Hughes Fourth Estate, 525pp, £20 ISBN 1841153737
Arabian knight
The Highly Civilised Man: Richard Burton and the Victorian world Dane Kennedy Harvard University Press, 354pp, £17.95 ISBN 0674018621
Out in the cold
Nobody's Child Kate Adie Hodder & Stoughton, 324pp, £20 ISBN 0340838000
Holy order
Opus Dei: secrets and power inside the Catholic Church John L Allen Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 416pp, £20 ISBN 0713999012
Books - Glenys Kinnock recommends. . .
The End of Poverty: how we can make it happen in our lifetime Jeffrey Sachs Penguin, 397pp, £8.99 ISBN 0141018666
Books - Aditya Chakrabortty recommends. . .
Holy Terror Terry Eagleton Oxford University Press, 148pp, £12.99 ISBN 0199287171
Books - Martin Bright recommends. . .
Change the World Without Taking Power: the meaning of revolution today John Holloway Pluto Press, 277pp, £17.99 ISBN 0745324665 Our Hidden Lives Simon Garfield Ebury Press, 536pp, £6.99
Books - Ann Widdecombe recommends. . .
Poisoned Peace: 1945 - The war that never ended Gregor Dallas Fourth Estate, 288pp, £16.99 ISBN 0719554780
Books - Nina Fishman recommends. . .
La Vie en Bleu: France and the French since 1900 Rod Kedward Penguin, 740pp, £30.00 ISBN 0713990414
