21 November 2005

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

Jason Cowley, Editor, New Statesman

Cover story

Inside Guantanamo

Lawyer Clive Stafford Smith regularly visits clients in the prison camp he calls America's "law-free zone". This is his chilling report on life behind the wire

By Clive Stafford Smith

Features

Has Blair lost his grip?

By Martin Bright

The PM's allies have told him, in no uncertain terms, that he must rebuild trust in the party. But at the 11th hour, can he do it?

Lobby fodder no longer

By Philip Cowley

Torturers? Who, us?

By Andrew Stephen

While George W Bush thinks everything is just fine, Guantanamo and the abuse of terror suspects are dividing his cabinet and corroding his presidency

A lifeline, but not for them

By Robin Pagnamenta

It is vital to the west and worth billions to BP, but will the 1,100-mile pipeline across the Caucasus do anything for those in its path? Robin Pagnamenta reports

Can you incent? Passionately?

By Simon Busch

Just look at the job ads: business-speak is running amok. Simon Busch tests some solution delivery concepts

Essay

NS Essay - 'A relentless focus on "personality" risks constructing a public world of commercial stimulation, limiting the trusted space in which society can ask and answer the questions of the times'

By Douglas Alexander and John Lloyd

Who is to blame for the malaise in public life? Is it politicians, journalists, or both, working in harmony?

Regulars

New Statesman Leader

Between police and politics

Lindsey Hilsum longs for realpolitik in place of ideology

By Lindsey Hilsum

Uncomfortable as it is to agree with a man cast in the Kissinger mould, in these dangerous times I find realpolitik has a certain appeal

Commons Confidential

Village life - Kevin Maguire keeps an eye on the revolting rebels

By Kevin Maguire

An armed truce, revolting rebels and the small fry stumble from Blunkett wreckage

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Culture

Hollywood missionaries

By Boyd Farrow

In a drive to boost revenues, American film bosses are targeting the country's 30 million evangelical Christians. And the religious right is proving only too glad to help them along, reports Boyd Farrow