24 August 2009
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Features
Palestine’s comeback kid
The first Fatah congress for 20 years featured new faces, sore losers – and a very complicated election.
The election will not be televised
The internet will revolutionise the parties’ general election campaigns. For our leading politicians, it is a great leap into the unknown.
Is Google evil?
The online search giant is the internet’s greatest success story. But as ever more data is amassed, concerns over how the company may use it grow.
Hard times
Suicide rates rose at shocking speed after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 – and have done with each recession in the past century.
The long wait
Persecuted and oppressed in Burma, Rohingya Muslims are fleeing across the border into Bangladesh. Starving and stateless, they live in squalid makeshift camps. And yet, as Cyrus Shahrad discovers, they have not lost hope.
Who’d have thought it
Penguin’s Great Ideas series is too Eurocentric, too male – but at least it’s made it cool to pull a volume of Edmund Burke from your pocket.
Regulars
New Statesman Leader
Leader: Daniel Hannan’s opinions on our health service are completely in keeping with the Tory mainstream
It is Labour - not the Conservatives - that is the party of the NHS. Ministers have found a chink in the Tories' armour
New Statesman Leader
How “winnable” is Afghanistan?
The government has failed to define "victory". Ministers should set a date for withdrawal of British troops
The Politics Column
Hurrah for Harriet
There is an alternative to drifting into horrendous defeat, but Labour must seize the moment. The party’s deputy leader showed how
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World Citizen
A travesty of omissions
It is ten years since East Timor’s referendum on freedom from Indonesia – but, as the gaps in a new film show, the western cover-up continues
Down & Out in London
Down and out in London
I resembled nothing so much as a Victorian poster-boy advertising the perils of fornication
Culture
Stories from a former country
A striking series of photographs from the GDR captures a world that began to fade 20 years ago – a foreign land that Berlin is still struggling to understand.
Heads will roll
Rick Jones joins composers from around the world to celebrate Haydn’s legacy – and see his two skulls
Radio
Hippies and Tories are game for a laugh
Pete’s acid has worn off, and Norman Tebbit is up to his elbows in feathers
