11 December 2006
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Cover story
How to start an arms race
Renewing Trident will be a disaster for nuclear weapons control New Statesman leader: It's not too late to stop it
Features
Promoting learning and showing respect
Cash for schools and colleges is meant to show education will be the glue of a Brown manifesto
What they didn't tell us about WMD
As the Iraq Study Group reports on US operations to remove Saddam, Brian Jones, a former intelligence officer, gives an exclusive account of "Report X" and how the government spun the evidence in Britain
A doctor's scream
As the Prime Minister defends reforms in the health service, morale is at an all-time low. And yet more money has been poured in than ever before. So what has gone wrong?
Loadsa money, loadsa woe
For all the complaining, there is good news, argues Niall Dickson. Power is being devolved to local hospitals and signs are encouraging
Buying into a recession
America's annual spending frenzy is under way and even sub-zero temperatures won't stop people camping out to snap up bargains. But falling house prices point to trouble ahead
To Prezzagrad with love
In the Thirties, planners imagined a magnificent road linking Liverpool to Hull. But the dream soured, as Joe Moran discovered
Who says the cuppa is disappearing?
A nostalgic history shows that Britain's tea tradition is, in fact, alive and well Disappearing Britain Channel 5
Regulars
New Statesman Leader
Trident - it's not too late to stop Blair's latest military blunder
New Statesman leader opposing a new generation of Trident
We meet at last No 3958
Set by Hank T Romein John Humphrys, on Radio 4's "Humphrys in Search of God", sought to find Him. But what if He had actually appeared before the great sceptic . . .
Culture
Year of the woman
At the beginning of 2006, the prospects looked bleak for strong, idiosyncratic female pop acts. Jude Rogers meets three remarkable artists who changed all that
Portrait of the artist
Damien Hirst's obsessive collecting could prove the death of his own creativity
Theatre
Stap me vitals! We're having a ball
Rollicking show brings a flamboyant 18th-century heroine back to life The Bitches Ball Hoxton Hall, London N1
Film
One early Christmas present and one turkey
A tale of blunt reality sparsely told and a beauty commercial relentlessly oversold
It's Winter (12A)
dir: Rafi Pitts
Kabul Express (15)
dir: Kabir Khan
Radio
From the old East End to the Bobster
Hidden gems on Radio 4, and Radio 2 signs a real treasure
Books
Taking sides
John Sutherland on why we couldn't care less about US book prizes
Would like to meet . . .
They Call Me Naughty Lola: the London Review of Books personal ads – a reader Edited by David Rose Profile Books, 192pp, £8.99
A history lesson
Observation on Lorna Arnold, Britain's official nuclear historian
Welcome to Planet Blitcon
Martin Amis, Salman Rushdie and Ian McEwan dominate British literature - and they're convinced that Islam threatens civilisation as we know it
Living the dream
Mellon: an American life David Cannadine Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 780pp, £30
Escape strategy
Time to Emigrate George Walden Gibson Square, 240pp, £8.99
