24 March 2008
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Cover story
The truth about Tibet
The last thing China wanted, in the year it is to host the Olympic Games, was the world watching its army brutally suppressing protesters
Features
The woman who nearly stopped the war
Five years ago, Katharine Gun, a translator at GCHQ, learned something so outrageous that she sacrificed her career to tell the truth. Martin Bright on a brave deed that should not be forgotten
Work isn't working
Families and firms are at war. It will only be won when parents - fathers as well as mothers - can care for their children without harming their careers. It's the economy that must change
Taking shelter
The cities of Brazil have long been segregated by gross inequality. Now slum-dwellers are saying they've had enough and a nationwide campaign is on the march
A lifeline needs saving
When women have been sexually abused, many turn to Rape Crisis centres for support and help. But these essential services are themselves under threat through lack of money
Regulars
New Statesman Leader
With all that money, schools and hospitals should be better
The “third stage” is designed to make clear that Brown’s Labour Party will not revert to old tax-and-spend ways
Commons Confidential
Miliboy in Geordieland
Old Labour values live on in a Tyneside working man's club
The beginner's guide to becoming rich
Blame the demise of the Net Book Agreement for Katie Price and Kerry Katona's literary careers
Recreation: creation No 4019
We asked you for God's entry in Who's Who Set by J Seery
Culture
Tangled up in red and blue
Bob Dylan has spent a lifetime on the road. Now a collection of his paintings centres on the all-American symbol of a man on the move
Performance
Bathetic in Bangkok
Dirty talk but no sex in a strangely effective play without a plot Tough time, nice time The Pit, London EC2
Film
Meet the girlfriend
A promising social satire descends into ingratiating small-town togetherness Lars and the Real Girl (12A) dir: Craig Gillespie
Television
Characters you can care about
The sentimental but kind and loving sitcom returns for a second series Gavin and Stacey BBC3
Books
Many happy returns
Although Homer's Odyssey is now nearly 3,000 years old, the story of Ulysses's journey home to Ithaca from the Trojan War continues to inspire and influence new works of art and literature, music and films.
Sound and visions
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the 20th Century Alex Ross Fourth Estate, 624pp, £20
The horror, the horror
Trust Me, I'm a (Junior) Doctor Max Pemberton Hodder & Stoughton, 298pp, £12.99
Excess all areas
Exile on Main Street: a Season in Hell With the Rolling Stones Robert Greenfield Da Capo Press, 258pp, £9.99
Observations
Bengal's fowl legacy
Bird flu panic may have run its course in the UK but in West Bengal an altogether more dramatic drama is being played out
Kindness of George W
Bush's efforts on behalf of Aids sufferers in Africa may, in retrospect, be among his most important legacies
After the cyclone
At least 93 people were killed and 190,000 displaced when tropical cyclone Ivan struck Madagascar
