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New Statesman - Thursday 03 July 2008 |
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Selection of articles from the British weekly.
Cover story
Photo essay: Young lives
An exclusive essay on the obstacles laid in the paths of this generation. Plus Suzanne Moore on why young people are unhappy. She argues society has demonised and and silenced them and that it's time for a new approach
Features
What the NHS means to me
Alan Johnson
As the Health Service turns 60, Alan Johnson says Nye Bevan's vision continues to inspire him and points out that a decade ago it was talked of as if it was on its knees
A new deal for British children
Suzanne Moore
Why are our young people so unhappy? Because we have become a society that fears, demonises and silences them. The fault is ours, not theirs
The long fight for equality
Katherine Rake
When women won the vote 80 years ago, many thought true equality was a mere step away. But it has not been so simple
When discrimination works
Martin Bright
Parents of children who are now at private school are already talking of moving them to the local state sixth form
Regulars
New Statesman Leader - Ending child poverty is a huge ambition, but it is the right one. It is our responsibility, at whatever cost, to see that we do not squash the indomitable spirit of today's children
Diary - A short walk in Palestine - or is it Eretz Yisrael ?
Raja Shehadeh
We stopped to eat our picnic breakfast of Nabulsi goat's cheese and tomatoes - which we had to eat whole because I could not risk being stopped on the road carrying a Swiss army knife
Africa - How a continent missed its moment
Michela Wrong
Mbeki's grand project has been sabotaged by his inability to view events on the continent outside a narrow racial prism
Arts & Culture
Enduring memories
Michael Chanan
The Cuban master film-maker Tomás Gutiérrez Alea trod a fine line, supporting the revolution but insisting that artists should maintain their distance from those in power
Books
The policy failures of Nato and the United States have left Afghanistan and Pakistan dangerously unstable, argues Ahmed Rashid. And any solution will be difficult as long as Pakistan's army and military intelligence continue to support the Taliban and al-Qaeda
Hammer and Tickle: a History of Communism Told Through Communist Jokes
Reviewed by Martin Rowson
Trauma
Reviewed by Lucy Beresford
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