In this week's magazine The end of socialism

19 March 2012

Columns
Features
- Ten things they don't tell you about academies
  Inconvenient truths about the academy revolution.
  By Mehdi Hasan
- The NS Interview: Kiran Bedi, social activist and former police chief
  “My policing was nothing but activism – it had to be”
  By Samira Shackle
- 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
- Moby-Duck: the True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea
  By Samira Shackle
- Eclectic avenues
  The appeal of BBC 6 Music.
  By Sophie Elmhirst
- Decline and fall of the Old Firm
  What went wrong for the Bhoys and the Blues?
  By Simon Kuper
- Review: Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
  A corpse quest makes for handsome viewing.
  By Ryan Gilbey
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