21 September 2009
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Features
My father has been punished for helping Honduras
After the removal of my father by a military coup sanctions against the regime are vital
Beware of the blog
Boris underestimated the web
Fight the far right
BNP racism is becoming more open, more direct and more vicious. It must be confronted head-on.
Bring it on
We can and will expose Cameron Conservatism to be as out of touch and unsuited for these times as Labour was in 1979. We must win this fight
Questions for Ken
Pop, politics, and what he’d do with his hour on the plinth – New Statesman readers ask, Ken Livingstone answers.
Metropolis now
On the campaign trail, Barack Obama promised to champion America’s cities and help them help themselves. So how are they faring under his presidency?
“You cannot make peace with half a people”
Israel must give Hamas a chance
A mayor’s-eye view
Antonio Villaraigosa, mayor of Los Angeles and Dave Bing, mayor of Detroit
Why we should scrap Trident
How can we demonise other countries for daring to have nuclear weapons development programmes while maintaining our own arsenals?
Where the axe should fall
Caroline Lucas, Jon Cruddas, Peter Tatchell and others tell us where spending cuts should be made
The gathering storm
Climate change hits the poorest people hardest. Rich countries got us into this mess. Now they must get us out of it
Great Danes
Mayor Ritt Bjerregaard on green Copenhagen
My favourite London song: Have your say
Stephen Fry, Norman Cook, Hilary Mantel and others pick their favourite London songs. Have they got it right? What would you add?
Nurses lose their halo
These days all vicars are randy and all nuns are harridans. Is it really such a surprise that nurses’ halos have slipped?
Interview
Exclusive: Hamas leader interview
In a world exclusive, Ken Livingstone discusses religion, violence and the chances for peace with the Hamas leader Khaled Meshal
The Books Interview: Iain Banks
Former mayor of London Ken Livingstone interviews Iain Banks, one of his favourite authors
Regulars
New Statesman Leader
Leader: Labour must change to survive
The Labour government remains a superior option to the Tories but it needs credible policies to meet the huge challenges of the world
New Statesman Leader
Leader: A very long engagement . . .
The New Statesman supported me when I was being battered from pillar to post by the tabloid press
The Politics Column
The original spin
Journalists are being spun big style; they cover Cameron as though he were PM-elect
World Citizen
The party game is over
For the Afghan villagers blown to pieces in our name, one craven motion at Labour’s conference is too late
Culture
Capital records
Does London have a musical soul? The sprawling city has inspired countless songs, but its identity has been notoriously difficult to pin down. Perhaps it is best seen through the eyes of outsiders
Everybody do the dinosaur
From the Brontës to brontosaurus, we are indulging a perilous obsession with the past
Radio
Good mourning with Peter and Wealands
A pair of sulky churchmen give John Humphrys a run for his money
Books
Out of this word
The greatest science fiction imagines universes wholly unlike anything we have ever seen before
