New Statesman

The NS Interview: Omar Bin Laden

By Mehdi Hasan

“People are surprised when I say I’m the son of Osama Bin Laden”

Night at the Museum

By Vaughan Allen

As the guardians of the souls of our communities, local cultural institutions must fight and adapt in the face of budget cuts.

Drastic and immediate cuts in carbon emissions, as advocated by most of the green lobby, are an expensive way of doing very little good. They would reduce growth and especially hurt the world’s poor. But there is another, better way

20 green heroes and villains: Heroes

On 7 December, world leaders and negotiators will meet in Copenhagen to discuss the future of our planet. As the debate intensifies, the New Statesman’s panel of environmental experts have chosen their heroes and villains – politicians, activists, companies and institutions.

20 green heroes and villains: Villains

MoD to announce new inquiry into Iraq abuse claims

Inquiry launched into claims 20 Iraqis were murdered and nine others tortured at a UK base in 2004

Domestic violence to be addressed in school lessons
All school children will receive lessons on gender equality and domestic violence from 2011

Bank secretly lent RBS and HBOS £62bn
Officials reveal that banks came within minutes of collapsing before secret rescue package

Scottish Parliament may gain new tax powers
Ministers to recommend giving Scotland control of £6bn in new tax raising powers

Politics

The Shadow Cabinet's £7 million tax break

By Mehdi Hasan

Now we know why the Tories hate inheritance tax

Like it or not, Brown’s a war leader
By James Macintyre

Uganda is sanctioning gay genocide
Sexual violence is everywhere in Uganda
By Sigrid Rausing

Nurses, cricket and anti-Semitism
We should value nurses' distinctive qualities, not force them to take degrees
By Peter Wilby

Arts

A Serious Man (15)

By Ryan Gilbey

Bodily revulsion is at the heart of the Coens' work

Dawn of the dead
Stephen Poliakoff’s new drama, Glorious 39, is bleaker than ever
By David Herman

The Condition of England
Charles Masterman’s devastating anatomy of Edwardian Britain foreshadows our own times.
Reviewed by David Selbourne

Chick Corea/Béla Fleck
A jazz performance that is full of fireworks
By Sholto Byrnes

Environment

20 green heroes and villains: Heroes

Cloud control
An alternative to drastic cuts in carbon emissions
By Bjorn Lomborg

Leader: World leaders need to become green heroes too
Without the requisite political will, the prospects for our planet remain bleak

Green heroes and villians...
...here's two that didn't quite make the cut

We need to go cold turkey to kick our addiction to oil
High oil prices could act as a global insurance policy against the collapse of climate talks
By Mark Lynas