08 March 2010
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Cover story
Back in the race
Could Labour seize a surprise election victory? Cabinet ministers and pollsters reveal how the party’s long-term strategy is beginning to work.
Features
A weapon against half the world
To mark International Women’s Day on 8 March, Julie Bindel calls for a global movement against sexual violence.
The cockney Siberia
The Thames Gateway development is the largest urban regeneration scheme ever attempted in Britain. If it fails, the area risks becoming a vast wilderness robbed of its rich natural landscape and cultural heritage.
Interview
The NS Interview: Dambisa Moyo, economist
“People need jobs and investment. There is no magic trick”
“I told David Cameron’s man to get lost”
Derek Simpson, Britain’s most powerful trade union leader, says that the unions shouldn’t talk to the Tories and anoints Ed Miliband as Labour’s next leader
Regulars
New Statesman Leader
Leader: Mr Cameron, you’re no Barack Obama
The Tories may have appropriated Barack Obama's "vote for change" slogan but they remain the party of the status quo on a host of issues.
The Politics Column
The zombies of Westminster
Cameron's team sees itself as the good guys but, viewed from the outside, the whole system is decomposing.
Culture
Return of the natives
Beneath the idealism and political correctness of Avatar, in the spotlight at the Oscars on Sunday, lie brutal racist undertones.
Books
Point Omega
Twenty-five years ago, in White Noise, Don DeLillo perfected a distinctive, paranoid style. His new novel is a distant echo of that masterpiece.
