18 January 2010
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Cover story
The danger of Sarah Palin
With unemployment at 10 per cent and rising, the ultra-conservative “Tea Party” movement is galvanising Republicans and hurting Obama. And Sarah Palin is its lodestar
Features
Land of blue gold
In a region fraught with mutual distrust, anxieties over water supply are raising tensions between India and China. For exiled Tibetans, these developments carry their own threat
Edward the contender
Amid renewed speculation over Gordon Brown’s leadership, Ed Balls is portrayed by many as the villain of the piece: ambitious and liable to take Labour in the wrong direction. It’s a portrait that misses some crucial facts
Our friends electric
Wind, waves and tides – the Orkney Islands have it all, but they’ll need a little help to make a difference.
Essay
The best things in life are free
As we begin a new decade with the debris of a once-revered financial system at our feet, we have the chance to re-evaluate our relationship with the money god . . . or risk becoming enslaved to it all over again
Interview
The NS Interview: Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, prime minister of Iceland
“Gordon Brown went beyond what was justified”
Regulars
New Statesman Leader
Leader: It’s time to pass the baton to the next generation
Labour's future depends on the intellectual baton being handed to its brightest thinkers
First Thoughts
Alastair Campbell, Chilcot and snow
The Chilcot inquiry is a win-win for Blair and Campbell
The Politics Column
“Listen, he’s got a book to sell . . .”
In an exclusive interview Douglas Alexander rebuts Peter Watt's claims and insists he's on good terms with Gordon Brown
World Citizen
For Israel, a reckoning
A new global movement is challenging Israel's violations of international law with the same strategies that were used against apartheid
Culture
Dutch Courage
The letters of Vincent Van Gogh show a man who craved intellectual companionship yet continued to dream, in defiance of loneliness.
Into the shadows
A refreshingly earnest look at Europe's dark past
Books
Patriot missile
Sarah Palin’s memoir is a disturbing mix of fantasy and propaganda – the creation myth of a demagogue
