04 January 2010
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Cover story
Life among the ruins
A year on from Israel’s armed assault on Hamas-controlled Gaza, the people of the territory are still prisoners in their homeland and targets of a crippling economic blockade. What prospects for 2010?
Features
Fantasy politics
Labour holds on to power in the general election, just. David Cameron survives an attempted coup. The Union is strengthened. And Gordon Brown lands a surprise new job. James Macintyre looks back at 2010
Winning the web war
Right-wing bloggers have been established for years, but the left is catching up and 2010 will be its year, says James Crabtree
Interview
The NS Interview: Richard Goldstone
“I’m certainly a friend of Israel – I don’t mind being called a Zionist”
Regulars
New Statesman Leader
Leader: Tories and the Lib Dems – an unnatural alliance
The Labour Party remains the natural ally of the Lib Dems. It is time for Nick Clegg to come clean and declare his true intentions
New Statesman Leader
Leader: Gaza’s fate hangs in the balance
Israel's friends should do more to persuade it to lift its draconian blockade on Gaza
First Thoughts
Bombing, burgling and banking
Some US presidents and British prime ministers would be well described as "fanatics"
The Politics Column
Get real, Labour optimists
To make a fist of the coming election Labour must start with a hard-headed view of what is really going on
World Citizen
Welcome to Orwell’s world
Obama's lies over the Afghanistan war remind us of the lessons of Nineteen Eighty-Four
Culture
Radio
That Grimm feeling
Little Henry from Finland persuades Antonia Quirke that seeing is overrated
Books
A New Literary History of America
For over two centuries, writers have tried to capture the essence and rhythm of America as a nation. An ambitious history charts their progress.
Foresight saga
Jonathan Derbyshire sifts the publishers' catalogues for the best new fiction and non-fiction
