27 July 2009
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Features
This time it’s personal
The Lib Dem candidate had a moat, Ukip’s was called Mr Tingle and the Tory was Pears soap-clean.Tara Hamilton-Miller reports from Norwich
The lost herd
When Gordon Brown became Prime Minister in 2007, he made great play of appointing figures from outside party politics to create a “government of all the talents”. One by one, they have resigned. So why have his “goats” fled?
South Africa: the enemy within
Zuma's new government still has much goodwill behind it, but it faces a difficult balancing act
Essay
Lives on the line
Will the world recession return African economies to their knees? Not if China has anything to do with it. This is one friendship that stands to flourish through the hard times.
Interview
The NS Profile: Amartya Sen
The Nobel Prize-winning economist is inspiring Labour politicians with his theory that inequalities of power matter as much as inequalities of income
Regulars
New Statesman Leader
Labour may be struggling but there is more intellectual energy on the left than for a generation
There are signs that the centre left is slowly emerging from the intellectual deep freeze in which it has been suspended for so long
The Politics Column
The inscrutable king
To his supporters,Mervyn King is indeed the "hero" of the recession. To many who have had to deal with him, in government and at the Bank, he has made the financial crash harder, not easier, to combat.
Commons Confidential
The latest whispers from Westminster
First Thoughts
The world’s busiest virus
. . . on a Heathrow pandemic, the supportive state and Stockholm stress
World Citizen
Lies, damn lies
Murdoch’s papers have relentlessly assaulted common truth and decency, but their most successful war has been on journalism itself
Culture
Another world is possible
The bestselling novelist Marina Lewycka remembers the blood, sweat and tears of making a film about the 17th-century revolutionary Gerrard Winstanley
Film
Antichrist (18)
Lars von Trier’s Antichrist has provoked shock and disgust – even calls for it to be banned.
Television
Desperate Romantics
Sex scenes involving the Pre-Raphaelites and their groupies are no turn-on at all
Radio
The left hand’s final frontier
Far-out jazz chat is all well and good, Keith, but tell us about the divorce
Books
The Prince
Machiavelli’s name has long been a byword for all that is rotten in politics. Yet, Richard Reeves and Dan Leighton argue, the Florentine’s forgotten writings show him to be the founder of republican thought and a champion of democratic power
Humboldt’s Gift
The book that changed my life
The Wish Maker
Continental drift
Observations
Don't let Osborne wield his axe
The choice between the parties remains clear: prudence with a conscience from Labour, or indiscriminate cuts from the Tories
Pandemic's progress
Our scientific knowledge will ensure that the swine flu pandemic is no apocalypse.
