19 October 2009
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Cover story
Ministry of the living dead
In elections over the past century, Labour could with some justice cry “We were cheated!” or “We were betrayed!”. But the party has run out of excuses. This time, it is dying by its own hands
Features
This restless land
Last year, after a decade of violence, Maoist rebels drove through the abolition of Nepal’s monarchy, but all too quickly they themselves fell from power. What chance now for peace and democracy?
What’s yours is mine
The scramble for the world’s resources has barely abated with the recession, and our ecological debts are mounting
Essay
“All will be done again as it was in far-off times”
Surveying the fragments of an obliterated civilisation at the British Museum’s Moctezuma exhibition, Tom Holland is haunted by the parallels between our vulnerable globalised world and that of the doomed Aztecs
Interview
Campaign spotlight: Power women
Marie Birchall, campaigner at One World Action
Regulars
New Statesman Leader
Leader: The Tories’ peculiar bedfellows in Europe
This Eurosceptic alliance is a product of moral and intellectual laziness
The Politics Column
The People versus Gordon Brown
The expenses scandal has hit Labour hardest. Brown should adopt a "masochism" strategy
World Citizen
War is peace, ignorance is strength
Obama, the man of peace, is planning another war to add to his impressive record
Culture
One famous Belgian
Nick Currie, aka the artist and performer Momus, was struck by the music of Jacques Brel from an early age. Here, he pays tribute to the “industrialist of song”
Blood, Iron and Gold: How the Railways Transformed the World
The British may have invented the railways, but they were soon lagging behind other nations. It’s time we got back on track
