19 June 2006
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Cover story
Can America go green?
Why are Americans so sceptical about global warming? Possibly because they really don't want to do anything about it, argues Elizabeth Kolbert
Features
Where were you?
Five things you might have missed last week
The war on children
The most vulnerable people in Gaza are suffering the worst acute mental and physical trauma as a result of Israel's actions: almost half the population is under 15
Sometimes it's hard to be a man
On the surface, any connection between the World Cup and men's mental health week is just a quirk of the diary. Or maybe not?
My socialist dream
Time was when Tony Blair espoused radical causes. Robert Taylor reveals the romanticism in a hidden letter from the young politician to the Labour leader Michael Foot
Where idealism and pragmatism meet
Time was when Tony Blair espoused radical causes. Neal Lawson says utopianism is alive and well
Interview
NS Interview - Chomsky
The New York Times calls him "arguably the most important intellectual alive", yet he has needed police guards on his own campus. Andrew Stephen discusses Iraq, Iran and Blair with a man who divides opinion like no other
Regulars
New Statesman Leader
Leader - Time for a living wage
The government has not intervened to help low-paid workers because it is on these very people that our economic growth depends
Diary
The name is not as it seems
I was treated to the sight of an ultra, ultra Orthodox Jew wading into the sea fully clothed - fur hat, long wool coat, shoes and socks
Politics
Chaos over the biggest issue of our time
Nobody knows which Whitehall department is in charge of engaging with Britain's Muslims and tackling extremism. After Forest Gate, the problem could lead to disaster
This England
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Unsuitable anagrams No 3933
Set by Will Bellenger: We asked for inappropriate reworkings of the monikers of the famous
Arts & Culture
Democracy by design
Factory Records had an aesthetic that captured a revolutionary spirit: it stood for both high art and a good time. That idea has blossomed in contemporary Britain
A man of the people
Ken Loach will not be deterred by the hostile response to his latest film, he tells Richard Brooks
How the personal became political
Paul Laverty, Ken Loach’s screenwriter, explains the genesis of their film
Theatre
When Britain was true blue
A loving paean to the Eighties comes complete with snow-washed denim. By Rosie Millard
Market Boy
Olivier Theatre, London SE1
Film
All smoke and no fire
A satire about the tobacco industry proves a damp squib, writes Ryan Gilbey
Thank You for Smoking (15)
dir: Jason Reitman
Television
There's no business like show business
A Pop Idol for playwrights is short on ideas, long on naked ambition, writes Andrew Billen
The Play's the Thing
Channel 4
Radio
The Beatles? We've bigger fish to fry
Andy Kershaw harks back to the strange world of student gigs
Travels
Happiness is an old Ambassador
For six decades, India scorned consumerism. But a taste for luxury is flourishing in the new Delhi, finds Tarquin Hall
Books
An orgy of inhumanity
The War of the World: history's age of hatred
Niall Ferguson Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 746pp, £25
ISBN 0713997087
Why was the 20th century marked by so many massacres, wars and genocides? And will the next 100 years be any different? Joanna Bourke explores our capacity for hatred
Know thy enemy
On the Road to Kandahar: travels through conflict in the Islamic world
Jason Burke Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 297pp, £20
ISBN 0755309855
Second helpings
Unaccompanied Women
Jane Juska Chatto & Windus, 253pp, £12.99
ISBN 0701178043
The greatest battle of all
Moscow 1941: a city and its people at war
Rodric Braithwaite Profile Books, 446pp, £20
ISBN 186197759X
House party
Men Who Made Labour
Edited by Alan Haworth and Dianne Hayter Routledge, 273pp, £30
ISBN 1845680472
Body of evidence
Heartbreak: the political memoir of a feminist militant
Andrea Dworkin Continuum, 232pp, £14.99
ISBN 0465017533
Walter Benjamin's "On Hashish"
The NS guide to the Walter Benjamin's "On Hashish"
Severed isles
The Book of Dave
Will Self Viking, 496pp, £17.99
ISBN 0670914436
Like a true professional
In My Skin: a memoir
Kate Holden Canongate, 286pp, £9.99
ISBN 1841957917
Brush with a strangler
A Death in Belmont
Sebastian Junger Fourth Estate, 272pp, £14.99
ISBN 0007200056
Taking liberties
Homer's Odyssey
Simon Armitage Faber & Faber, 144pp, £14.99
ISBN 0571229352
The ways we love
Adverbs
Daniel Handler Fourth Estate, 352pp, £16.99
ISBN 0007181272
