20 April 2009

From the Editor…

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Cover story

The scent of blood

The scent of blood

The desperate men of Downing Street are trying to hang on to power at any cost. Can a bold, progressive Budget save them?

Features

Time, gentleman, please

Time, gentleman, please

The British pub used to be the heart of the community and a place of male refuge. Now pubs are closing in their hundreds but the government is doing nothing. Is it really last orders?

The shame of Ehud Barak

The Israeli Labour Party has been destroyed by an opportunistic leader

Look who’s talking

Look who’s talking

Armando Iannucci’s big-screen debut takes aim at politicians’ desecration of language

The silence of the sands

The silence of the sands

A photography exhibition in Abu Dhabi draws Sholto Byrnes into the life of a great British explorer

Interview

Stress, sexism and sacrifice of ideals

A London secondary school teacher explains why she had to leave her dream job as a constable after only two years

Regulars

Don't blame it on the bloggers

NS leader on a scandal that goes right to the heart of the Brown government

A carafe of Jarrow ’82, please

Stained by association

Stained by association

Gordon Brown was right to go after the Tories on policy, but his credibility as a moral leader has been hugely undermined by the company he keeps

Boredom and despair in W1

I have no money, and no company apart from a plague of insubordinate mice. I would take a bath – only it might make the flat cave in

Pile up the politicians

...on profligate MPs, policing and a predictable Premiership

Luddite triumphans

The reds are revolting

My affair with the red wines of Australia lasted long after I left its shores. Our love was ruined by the industry’s greed for ever bigger global markets

Culture

Strange meetings

Strange meetings

A century ago in Vienna, madness and creativity existed side by side. The artists and thinkers who gathered there would shape the modern world

The kids are all right

The kids are all right

With nods to both Peter Pan and Lord of the Flies, a young writer hits her stride

Thank you for sending me an angel

Thank you for sending me an angel

Skellig: Sky 1 The Department Store: BBC2

Organic intellectuals

The airwaves are filled with nostalgic recollections of dead visionary musicians

Everyone’s a winner

It’s not fair that only one Prem team each year gets a prize, writes Hunter Davies

Books

Little things that matter

Little things that matter

How We Live and Why We Die: the Secret Lives of Cells Lewis Wolpert Faber & Faber, 240pp, £14.99

Let it come down

Night Wraps the Sky Vladimir Mayakovsky; edited by Michael Almereyda Farrar Straus Giroux, 304pp, £14

A difficult business

A difficult business

The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work Alain de Botton Hamish Hamilton, 336pp, £18.99

Enter the dragon

Enter the dragon

The Grand Turk: Sultan Mehmet II John Freely I B Tauris, 288pp, £18.99

Somewhere not here

Somewhere not here

Journey Into Space Toby Litt Penguin, 243pp, £7.99

Observations

The BNP’s breakthrough

The BNP’s breakthrough

Observations on Brussels

Aimless pleasures

Observations on psychogeography

Established values

Observations on back-scratching

Boutique banking

Observations on millionaires

Green heroes

The top ten

20 green heroes and villains: Heroes

Green villains

The top ten

20 green heroes and villains: Villains

Bjorn Lomborg

Cloud control

Cloud control

Interview

Omar Bin Laden

The NS Interview: Omar Bin Laden

James Macintyre

Brown at war

Like it or not, Brown’s a war leader

What if...

Hugh Gaitskell lived

What if... Hugh Gaitskell had lived

Will Self

On brands

We’re all with the brand

Film review

A Serious Man

A Serious Man (15)

Vote!

Will Baroness Ashton be an effective EU foreign minister?

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