25 August 2008
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Cover story
How to survive the recession
The days of easy loans are over and people are having to live within their means. But it is not all bad news. Iain Macwhirter on the lessons for the government, and what you can do
Features
What if they actually believe it?
George Osborne has now claimed "fairness" as a core Tory value, the latest of a series of raids deep into Labour territory
Georgia: the aftermath
As Russian forces begin to withdraw, we are learning more about the events of the short but brutal war over South Ossetia. Matt Siegel reports from Tskhinvali and Gori, while local people give eyewitness accounts of the devastation
The book of Dave
In conversation with the editor of GQ, the would-be prime minister reveals . . . that he "doesn't really like Pot Noodles"
Weird science
According to some Muslim scholars, everything from genetics to robotics and space travel is described in the Quran. What nonsense
Regulars
New Statesman Leader
Is Labour on the side of the voters or the bankers?
A recession is surely the acid test of a party claiming to represent the progressive left
The Politics Column
No glory for the other Team GB
The Olympics and Georgia were both opportunities for Brown: why did he not seize the moment?
Musharraf's departure will not bring peace
Pakistan is breathing a sigh of relief - but Musharraf has left the country in a total mess
Sarkozy needs a lesson in European history
Swiftness is the French president's raison d'être
Parting of the ways No 4041
According to Carole Vorderman's manager, the offer (to stay on Countdown) amounted to a 90 per cent pay cut, slashing her reported £1m salary to nearer £100,000. So she quit. "It was such a desperately hard decision to take," he said, but Carole was also "upset" over Des O'Connor's resignation. We want statements from publicists working for any person in the public eye, explaining how a kick in the teeth, huge pay cut, or removal of perks, was not the real reason why they left
Culture
Rap on the run
Wanted by the FBI for black activism in the States, Nehanda Abiodun fled to Havana, where she became the "godmother of Cuban hip-hop"
Sounds from the outside
Two new album releases show that there's still a place for nonconformists in British pop.
Space for oddities
A carefully catalogued archive of Stanley Kubrick's possessions offers an insight into the director's painstaking methods
Performance
Fit for a prince
David Tennant is mesmerising yet baffling in an eccentric production Hamlet Courtyard Theatre, RSC, Stratford-upon-Avon
Film
Short, sweet and pricey
A pleasantly trivial doodle of boyhood friendship in gritty north London Somers Town (12A) dir: Shane Meadows
Television
You're not who we think you are
Chinks in Johnson's charm armoury appear in a look at his colourful ancestry Who Do You Think You Are? BBC1
Radio
Change as good as a rest
The best feature of this year's Proms coverage was the interval-filler
Books
Modernist master
Despite the carping of anti-modernist reactionaries, Le Corbusier remains the greatest architect of the 20th century and a colossal study just published does justice to his protean creativity
Wrongs and rights
Palestine Inside Out: an Everyday Occupation Saree Makdisi W W Norton, 320pp, £15.99
Past mistress
Not In My Name: a Compendium of Modern Hypocrisy Julie Burchill and Chas Newkey-Burden Virgin Books, 208pp, £12.99
Not clever enough
The Standing Pool Adam Thorpe Jonathan Cape, 432pp, £16.99
