29 January 2007
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Features
A bullying lesson for a future PM
Jade and Danielle are neither Blair's children nor Thatcher's. They spent their formative school years under John Major, a lost period when child-centred learning was demonised
Yes, we can save the world . . . if we want to
Chris Luebkeman asks whether we are ready to change everything
A matter of security
Why is the MoD so seriously concerned about global warming? Josh Arnold-Forster on the social collapse we are not prepared for
The green rush
Businesses are vying to save the planet, and getting rich. But does it matter, so long as they deliver the goods?
Interview: Harriet Harman
The constitutional affairs minister warns colleagues that they can't be a "little bit against discrimination"
The silent slip to destruction
Public services have been taken over by unelected bureaucrats. David Blunkett says we are all ill served by removing politicians from the decisions
Religion of despair
Disciples of evangelism in the United States are often regarded with fear and suspicion. But for many it's seen as a route out of poverty and hopelessness
Bush's war on women
To further its anti-abortion crusade, the US denies aid to any NGO that offers safe terminations to the world's poorest women
The science of ourselves
Seventy years ago this week, a letter in the New Statesman launched the Mass-Observation project. It was the birth of a public fascination with "ordinary" lives which is still with us.
Regulars
New Statesman Leader
A police force with a history of collusion hopes for a fresh start
New Statesman leader on the role some Northern Ireland police officers had in colluding with murder
Commons Confidential
Old ties, blue stockings
Pity the trio. You know the era is over when it’s better to be a rebel than a loyalist
Healthwatch: Cancer treatment shames Britain
Get a cancer diagnosis and you might be best placed leaving Britain for treatment
Thanks a bundle No 3962
Set by George Cowley We asked for thank-you letters from famous people for unwanted Christmas presents
Culture
The game show goes on
"Participation TV" has taken over the world's airwaves, with cheap game shows racking up profits from premium-rate phone lines. But is it legal? Stephen Armstrong investigates
Doing it for the kids
Some of Britain's most credible indie bands have made children's albums. Jude Rogers finds out why
Theatre
Morbid fascinations
Sarah Kane's dark, disturbing play is overburdened with good intentions Blasted Soho Theatre, London W1 There Came a Gypsy Riding Almeida, London N1
Film
It's love, but not as we know it
Spiritual, sincere and downright silly, this romantic story is weirdly intoxicating The Fountain (12A) dir: Darren Aronofsky
Television
Teenage dreams, so hard to meet
Channel 4's latest attempt to shock patronises its younger audience Skins E4
Books
Living on the edge
The Writing on the Wall: China and the west in the 21st century Will Hutton Little, Brown, 448pp, £20 ISBN 0316730181
Identity crisis
Irish Freedom: the story of nationalism in Ireland Richard English Macmillan, 625pp, £25 ISBN 1405041897
The cost of capitalism
Affluenza Oliver James Vermilion, 382pp, £17.99 ISBN 0091900107
A taste of the past
Plats du Jour Patience Gray and Primrose Boyd Persephone Books, 304pp, £12 ISBN 1903155606
Ideas factory
Made to Stick: why some ideas take hold and others come unstuck Chip and Dan Heath Random House, 304pp, £12.99 ISBN 1905211570
Science fact, sort of
The Never-Ending Days of Being Dead: dispatches from the front line of science Marcus Chown Faber & Faber, 256pp, £15.99 ISBN 057122055X
Sick of literature
Montano Enrique Vila-Matas (translated by Jonathan Dunne) Harvill Secker, 326pp, £14.99 ISBN 1843432153
