03 April 2006
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Cover story
Fly and be damned
We could close every factory, lock away every car and turn off every light in the country, but it won't halt global warming if we carry on taking planes as often as we do. A voluntary no-flying movement offers the only hope, argues Mark Lynas
Features
The politics column - Martin Bright
The public will judge this government not by how bold it was in challenging left-liberal shibboleths, but whether its grandmothers were treated with respect in hospital
Heroes of our time
Where are the great men and women who are changing the world for the better? Who are they? The New Statesman invites you, the reader, to nominate your modern hero. Over the next few weeks some familiar names will give their thoughts, while Jason Cowley explains what our search is all about. Ultimately, however, it’s up to you, so get voting . . .
Our young runaways
Every year, 100,000 British children leave home with absolutely nowhere to go. How can we save them from danger and despair? Kira Cochrane finds hope in a Chicago refuge
Special Report - Sin and be happy
As Italians prepare to go to the polls, the author Tim Parks identifies a ritualistic sparring that is destroying his adopted home and the country he loves
Regulars
New Statesman Leader
Climate for change
The goal of cutting CO2 emissions by 20 per cent by 2010 has been part of Blair's self-image as a world leader. Yet the UK's record is lamentable
Diary
Diary - Charles Glass
I have been a week late for nuptials, a week early for birthdays; and occasional dinners with friends and lovers went awry because of my dyscalculia and unreliable memory
Mark Thomas - plays "let's start an arms company"
I can think of no finer act of citizenship than students exposing the government's failure to control the arms trade
Darcus Howe remembers the "insohreckshan"
To the press they were the Brixton riots, but Linton saw something different. He called it "di great insohreckshan"
Commons Confidential
Village life - Kevin Maguire ducks off
Tales of two deputies, lookalikes, a strange political coupling, and the latest on the Cameron hair mystery
Ziauddin Sardar takes a drugs trial
Science has ceased to be normal "puzzle solving". Welcome to the era of post-normal science
This England
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Arts & Culture
Grand designs
The visionary architect Joseph Gandy was hailed as a genius during his lifetime, but he failed to attract patrons and few of his schemes were ever realised. If they had been, writes Kevin Jackson, London might look rather different today
Body of work
Art - Richard Cork is astonished by the sculptural solidity of Michelangelo's drawings
Radio
Radio - Rachel Cooke
Sandi Toksvig to present The News Quiz? Oh dear – the wrong voice can ruin everything
Theatre
They had it coming
Theatre - Jailbirds sing and dance their way through prison high jinks, writes Michael Portillo
ChicagoHMP Bronzefield, Ashford, Middlesex
Television
East end spice
Television - Tales of immigrant adversity prove a little too heart-warming, writes Andrew Billen
A Night on Brick Lane (BBC2)
The Fan
The Fan - Hunter Davies worries for England
It's pointless saying this England squad's the best since 1966
Drink
Drink - Shane Watson doesn't bother with Bolly
What with the ubiquity of bubbly, we're all champagne snobs now
Books
The truth speakers
Absent Minds: intellectuals in Britain
Stefan Collini Oxford University Press, 526pp, £25
ISBN 0199291055
The British do themselves down when they describe themselves as anti-intellectual. A nation that produced Coleridge, Mill, Keynes and Orwell can hardly be said to despise ideas
The vote grabbers
Fooled Again: how the right stole the 2004 election and why they'll steal the next one too (unless we stop them)
Mark Crispin Miller Basic Books, 350pp, £14.99
ISBN 0465045790
Confessions of a raging egomaniac
The Only Bush I Trust Is My Own
Periel Aschenbrand Corgi, 207pp, £6.99
ISBN 158542420X
Fine tuning
Guitar Man
Will Hodgkinson Bloomsbury, 304pp, £12.99
ISBN 0306815141
The long and winding road
Great British Bus Journeys: travels through infamous places
David McKie Atlantic Books, 352pp, £16.99
ISBN 1843541327
Slumming it
Culture Is Our Weapon: AfroReggae in the favelas of Rio
Patrick Neate and Damian Platt Latin American Bureau, 162pp, £8.99
ISBN 1899365699
Tale of two cities
Prague
Arthur Phillips Duckworth, 400pp, £10.99
ISBN 0375759778
Animal harm
Giraffe
J M Ledgard Jonathan Cape, 336pp, £16.99
ISBN 0224076892
