08 June 2009

From the Editor…

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Features

Can Obama woo the Muslim world?

Can Obama woo the Muslim world?

Obama went to Cairo to woo the Muslim world. But one lofty speech won’t stop America from being loathed

The NS Profile: Michael Sandel

The NS Profile: Michael Sandel

A public intellectual, he delivers lectures at Harvard that are wildly popular. He preaches that the ‘‘vacuum’’ of modern politics can only be remedied by a return to morality

‘‘There may have been no water, but the province was awash with guns’’

‘‘There may have been no water, but the province was awash with guns’’

Reporting of the conflict in Darfur in the western media reproduces the spurious ethnic categories of British colonialism. The story of the “Arab” presence in Sudan is much more complicated

Essay

Burning down the House

Burning down the House

Bereft of ideas, the party leaders are ransacking the storehouse of history. Yet, in their very desperation, they are sowing the seeds of destruction of our political system

Regulars

Ten reasons to be cheerful . . .

Forty winks in the Mock Gothic Fun Palace

Comrade turns on comrade in the dying days of New Labour

Comrade turns on comrade in the dying days of New Labour

The country waits for a government to lead again, with or without Mr Brown

After the massacre

After the massacre

With Brown’s chances of survival “less than 50-50”, a reform agenda with the Lib Dems may be Labour’s only hope

We need an earthquake

We need an earthquake

Obama has exposed the timidity of Blair and Brown – whose disastrous legacy is a Britain with no strong, credible left-of-centre voice

The next Fame Academy

. . . on a celebrity parliament, cold-calling Labour and the Mongoose

In the relegation zone

When you don’t have enough money to buy the cheapest bottle of wine, it’s hard to feel for the financial plight of Premiership footballers

When dull men take drastic measures

Shakespeare’s Globe - The people, the places, the events

Paying back in kind, the race to be the next Speaker, and unlikely poetry at the Saatchi Gallery

Culture

The nation's conscience

The nation's conscience

Representing Britain at this year’s Venice Biennale, Steve McQueen is an extravagant talent. And his experience as an official war artist in Iraq has made him determined to face down uncomfortable truths

Philosophical  party music

Philosophical party music

Rachel Aspden meets El Tanbura, an Egyptian group who are adapting folk traditions to the upheaval of their modern surroundings

A revealer of souls

A revealer of souls

Diane Arbus’s striking portraits illuminate the small tragedies of life

Britain's Got Talent

Britain's Got Talent

Reality television is a vessel for feelings that dare not speak their name

Worthy of a great reception

Wildly applauded along London streets in his day, Haydn gets his second wind

Sugar  (15)

Sugar (15)

A rookie baseball player is chewed up by the American sports industry

Books

Lore of the manor

Lore of the manor

The country-house novel has always told us more than we might expect about the condition of Britain. No wonder that the genre is ripe for exploitation in an age of greed, debt and empty aspiration.

Brixton Beach

Brixton Beach

Normance

The Books Interview

The Books Interview

Rita Dove

Observations

The new nuclear power

The new nuclear power

Observations on North Korea

The Tony fan club

The Tony fan club

Observations on Tony Blair and the Middle East

Cuba goes capitalist

Cuba goes capitalist

Observations on private property

Like scaling Everest

Pianism

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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