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Like it or not, Brown’s a war leader
Public patience with the Afghanistan war is running out. Brown may yet regret becoming a war leader
The NS Interview: Omar Bin Laden
“People are surprised when I say I’m the son of Osama Bin Laden”
20 green heroes and villains: Villains
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.
Uganda is sanctioning gay genocide
Sexual violence is everywhere in Uganda. A new bill punishing homosexuals is part of that culture
Leader: World leaders need to become green heroes too
Without the requisite political will, the prospects for our planet remain bleak
Exclusive: easyJet grounds in-flight magazine after Holocaust gaffe
Airline U-turn follows Holocaust Memorial fashion shoot
Belgian prime minister and British peer given top EU jobs
Presidency is won by Belgian leader Herman Van Rompuy as Baroness Ashton becomes foreign minister
Sleaze watchdog chairman resigns over expenses claims
Tory MP David Curry stands down after claiming £30,000 for a second home he rarely uses
Harman to be prosecuted over car accident
Deputy Labour leader charged over crash in which she allegedly used her mobile phone
Police head warns officers would resign over Tory plans
Sir Hugh Orde says directly-elected commissioners would undermine police independence
Six MPs and peers face criminal charges over expenses
Detectives expected to pass files on to the Crown Prosecution Service within weeks
Cloud control
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
Leader: World leaders need to become green heroes too
Without the requisite political will, the prospects for our planet remain bleak
Nurses, cricket and anti-Semitism
We should value nurses' distinctive qualities, not force them to take degrees
Like it or not, Brown’s a war leader
Public patience with the Afghanistan war is running out. Brown may yet regret becoming a war leader
Wrong on the way down and up
The MPC has once again entered the world of wishful thinking, as it did at the beginning of the recession that it failed to spot
Uganda is sanctioning gay genocide
Sexual violence is everywhere in Uganda. A new bill punishing homosexuals is part of that culture
Sigrid Rausing
Uganda's war on gays
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