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New Statesman - Monday 06 October 2008 |
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 Selection of articles from the British weekly
Features
Waiting for David
Tara Hamilton-Miller
Who was the kung fu panda? What's a pillow menu? These were the questions keeping Tories awake at conference. And then, finally, the "big guy" appeared
Weather makers
James Robinson
As storms break around Gordon Brown and David Cameron, politics is being shaped not by the party leaders, but by a complex network of super-powerful press and media players
The perils of regicide
Steve Richards
Five prime ministers in modern times have faced leadership challenges. But Gordon Brown's enemies should take note: regicide is no way to win an election
Strictly, but nicely
Annalisa Barbieri
Everything about Strictly is good. Here is a programme featuring an element of reality - stars not only playing themselves, but actually doing something
The pay packet crunch
Robert Reich
Robert Reich, labour secretary in Clinton's administration and world-renowned economist, explains why the American economy is grinding to a halt
It was a failure of regulation
Nicholas Crafts
The evidence from history is clear. Weakly controlled banking systems tend to have a high proportion of bad loans and thus to collapse
Regulars
New Statesman Leader - Labour is given the opportunity to show what it stands for. The global economic crisis has made us all more aware of the state's weakness in the face of "supercapitalism"
Columns - A sepia-tinged crisis
Alec MacGillis
As the bailout drama lurches on, America is looking back nostalgically to the days of FDR and Eisenhower, when Wall Street still invested in real things
Media - The market delivers bad news
Brian Cathcart
If Grade's shareholders had their way, ITV would probably broadcast no regional news programmes at all
Arts & Culture
Rothko retrospective
Sue Hubbard
Mark Rothko's paintings are spaces within which we can contemplate the stillness at the core of who we are - a space to daydream
Reboot - Very poor phorm
Becky Hogge
Advertisers should not be allowed to spy on net users' browsing habits
Books
Zionism is one of the most contentious ideas , freighted with emotion by both partisans and detractors. Now some Jews are speaking out, breaking a long self-censorship
Reviewed by Geoffrey Wheatcroft
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