In this week's magazine The end of socialism

• Columns

• Features

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    Ten things they don't tell you about academies

    Inconvenient truths about the academy revolution.

    By Mehdi Hasan
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    The NS Interview: Kiran Bedi, social activist and former police chief

    “My policing was nothing but activism – it had to be”

    By Samira Shackle
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    Labour should support free schools — it invented them

    The party will get back into government by having a better plan for the future, not by opposing chan

    By Andrew Adonis

• Critics

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    Moby-Duck: the True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea

    By Samira Shackle
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    Eclectic avenues

    The appeal of BBC 6 Music.

    By Sophie Elmhirst
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    Decline and fall of the Old Firm

    What went wrong for the Bhoys and the Blues?

    By Simon Kuper
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    Review: Once Upon a Time in Anatolia

    A corpse quest makes for handsome viewing.

    By Ryan Gilbey

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