01 February 2010
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Cover story
The bulletproof case against Blair
In the build-up to the invasion of Iraq, our prime minister insisted that he didn’t want war – yet he rushed headlong into it anyway, based on a hunch. Here, experts he ignored at the time judge him in a way the Chilcot inquiry may fail to do
Features
Obama stops thinking positive
A year on from his inauguration, the president stands accused of reneging on inspiring campaign promises about HIV/Aids
Hard-boiled Swede
In Henning Mankell’s Wallander novels – and their home-grown TV version – Sweden is scruffy, violent and impoverished. Not so for the BBC
Essay
The land that wouldn't lie
The Haitian people overthrew slavery, uprooted dictators and foreign military rule, and elected a liberation theologian as president. The west has made them pay for their audacity.
Interview
The NS Interview: Susan Neiman
“Progressives never know what to do in power” - Susan Neiman, moral philosopher
Regulars
New Statesman Leader
Leader: We are still teetering on the edge of a perilous cliff
Neither main party has a convincing policy for growth
First Thoughts
Mad stares, Thatcher and dodgy stats
New Labour has proved capitalism's best defence against social-democratic change
World Citizen
The kidnapping of Haiti
With US troops in control of their country, the outlook for the people of Haiti is bleak
Culture
Figures in a crowd
In 1967, abstract painting collided with politics
How low can you go?
Listening to Q is a depressing experience
Books
The Pregnant Widow
There's a lot of sex in Martin Amis's social comedy about free love at the end of the Sixties - but is it any good?
