This week’s New Statesman is a special issue devoted to the Labour leadership election. Our package includes revealing interviews with all five of the candidates: Ed Miliband, David Miliband, Ed Balls, Andy Burnham and Diane Abbott.
So, which candidate admitted to smoking cannabis? Who says his most prized possession is a special gift from Gordon Brown? And who was “a fantastic Dallas fan”? Read the interviews to find out.
Elsewhere, John Pilger takes on Australia’s new prime minister, Julia Gillard, and accuses her of reaffirming the “racism at the heart of policymaking”, Mehdi Hasan explores how the coalition became a convenient excuse for untested policies, and David Blanchflower explains why, for once, he agrees with George Osborne.
All this plus Alice Miles on the Tory war against the NHS, Peter Hain on Peter Mandelson’s memoirs and a compelling interview with the pugnacious historian Niall Ferguson.
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