12 November 2007
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Cover story
How to stop climate change: the easy way
Changing your light bulbs may not be enough to save a single polar bear, but there are things we can do collectively - and easily - that will really make a measurable difference in the battle against global warming. Mark Lynas has a three-part plan. Illustration by James Fryer
Features
The politics of fear
A legislative programme that contains many laudable goals will instead be dominated by authoritarianism, says our political editor - plus cross-party reaction to the Queen's Speech
Tactical Briefing
From: The Unit To: GB Subject: Terrorism
"We know where you live"
Working for a western magazine in Iran, Maziar Bahari finds that he has acquired some surprisingly close acquaintances - from the ministry of intelligence. And strangely, they are all called Mr Mohammadi . . .
Regulars
New Statesman Leader
Trains and chains and Victorian values in a modern setting
Brown now has two years in which he should forget about polls and the press and lay some foundations for a fairer society
Why Brits need not apply
Richard Reeves examines the economic impact of immigration
Commons Confidential
Comical Ali is back, offering his pearls of wisdom
All the gossip from the Westminster Village
Bring Out the Big Guns ..No 4003
Set by J Seery The scenario: a speaker arrives to talk on the subject of Jesse James. Suddenly he realises, to his horror, that the audience has turned up expecting a learned treatise on . . . Henry James. And he can't disappoint them. We wondered how his talk went - or one by another speaker put into a similar situation
Culture
Hollywood, year zero
Now that the internet brings us uncensored footage of the Iraq War, film-makers must move quickly to stay relevant. By the NS's award-winning film critic
Theatre
An inconvenient truth
Rwandan actors force us to confront our responsibility for genocide The Investigation Young Vic, London SE1
Film
A walk on the slow side
Sean Penn resists all that Hollywood moralising in a trip to the Alaskan waste Into the Wild (15) dir: Sean Penn
Television
Brother to brother
McGovern's eye for detail makes his tales of working-class life a joy to watch The Street BBC1
Radio
Coming in from the cold
The man from UNCLE returns with a story from communist Prague Solo Behind the Iron Curtain Radio 4 I Can See You Radio 3
Books
Why Brown won't read THAT book
Jessica, my eldest daughter, asks: "Why are you writing these things that make people angry?"
Reality bites
From psy-ops, disinformation and the Bible, to beer and battlefield philosophy, Denis Johnson's new novel is a masterly portrait of war, American-style.
Power to the people
The Time of the Rebels: Youth Resistance Movements and 21st Century Revolutions Matthew Collin Serpent's Tail, 216pp, £12.99
When less is more
Due Considerations John Updike Hamish Hamilton, 703pp, £30
Through other eyes
The Last Resistance Jacqueline Rose Verso, 256pp, £16.99
Myths of empire
God and Gold: Britain, America and the Making of the Modern World Walter Russell Mead Atlantic, 320pp, £25
War of words
John Sutherland on the military blogs reshaping our view of the battlefield
Observations
Benazir and the General
Never before has a military-backed government found it necessary to initiate its own military coup
Shooting for peace
Beaufort - set during the occupation of Lebanon - has been hailed as Israel's first great war movie
Writers cry for freedom
Cuba has more journalists locked up than any other country in the world, other than China
