03 November 2008
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Cover story
Europe's looming crisis
It all started with sub-prime loans in the United States. Or did it? As the IMF is called in to bail out failing economies, the scale of European exposure to toxic debt is becoming clear
Features
Will more choice help us through the maze?
Patients will want to take the path that leads them to the healthcare that they want, at a time when they want it
Sarah on the stump
The Prime Minister's wife has been out pressing the flesh and leavening the Brown brand as Labour struggles to repel the SNP in yet another knife-edge Scottish by-election
The clothes nationalist
Gandhi asked the bourgeoisie to burn their French chiffon saris and wool and worsteds from Lancashire mills for the sake of nationalism. Do we have his successor?
Israel v Hamas
Schools in Hebron are being closed and other charitable organisations put under pressure by an Israeli state convinced they are the conduits for Hamas funding and propaganda. But the result is more fear and hatred
Who will vote for Obama
It seems to be all over bar the voting but the final days of a presidential race can sometimes produce strange reversals of fortune
''We're still fighting the Civil War here"
Virginia, a former slave state and Republican stronghold, could help secure the presidency for Barack Obama if thousands of unregistered and disenfranchised black voters can be mobilised
Regulars
New Statesman Leader
The government must inject money into our ailing economy - there is no alternative
The Politics Column
Why I'm on the outside
Membership of the Labour Party is, improbably, once more increasing. But the party must change if it is to win back most of its lost members
Seeing double
The Tories' very own Blair and Brown
Texts, lies and Zardari-gate
Pakistan is in crisis, with an economy that has hit rock bottom. Think Zimbabwe, minus the good governance
The Politics Column
The Brown bounce
At the end of the summer Gordon Brown faced a host of severe challenges. But contrary to most predictions he's still standing, while his internal critics are nowhere to be seen
Shakespeare’s Globe
I spied Prince Michael paying obeisance to Paris Hilton. Did he have any idea who she was? Probably not
Who shall we pray for?
We must all now have heard of the Church of England's "Rapid Response Prayer Unit". We asked you to eavesdrop on deliberations at the Unit, which must have plenty to discuss at the moment
Culture
Keeping it real
Steve Lazarides is Banksy's gallerist and the man responsible for the boom in street art. He hasn't sold out - he's just adapted
Return of the tiger woman
The charismatic Jamaican-American singer's first album for 19 years Grace Jones Hurricane (Wall of Sound)
Film
Celebrating masochism
The latest James Bond blockbuster is little more than the usual exercise in designer violence, while an astounding portrait of the 1980s IRA hunger strikers takes film into visceral territory
Performance
Many a man's mad dream
Ralph Fiennes is magnificent as the doomed king, but only in despair Oedipus Olivier Theatre, London SE1
Television
The John and Pauline show
An invitation to laugh at the Prescotts is motivated by plain old snobbery Prescott: the Class System and Me BBC2
Books
In a class of his own
Alan Sillitoe rose from abject poverty to become one of our best novelists. At the age of 80, he is still writing and free from miserable fatalism.
Reading the signs
Otto Neurath: the Language of the Global Polis Nader Vossoughian Netherlands Architecture Institute, 176pp, £37.50
