Selection of articles from the British weekly

Cover story
Time to end Just William politics
In a New Statesman exclusive Charles Clarke takes on critics who abuse the word Blairite and warns Labour is destined for disaster if it continues on its current course and adds "we will not permit that to happen"

Features
Hidden lives, public voices
Broadcaster Esther Rantzen reads Morgan's story - part of our No Place for Children campaign

No place for children
Sir Al Aynsley-Green
The UK has one of the worst records in Europe for detaining children but accurate figures on how many are detained, and for how long, remain hard to come by

A pointless and brutal practice
Natasha Walter
Natasha Walter introduces the shocking cases of two young girls detained at Yarl's Wood

"My dreams are not important to anyone "
'Our first night in Yarl's Wood was just terrible. We couldn't eat and we couldn't sleep. There were special people there to look after my mum to stop her trying to kill herself again'

"The detainees have got pain in their eye s"
Meltem Avcil
In my school report this summer, they said I was an excellent student. I am making a new start and one day I will show everyone what I am capable of. But I will never forget Yarl's Wood

Is Ukraine next?
Andrey Kurkov
With Georgia in pieces, Ukraine could be the next to fall to Russia's territorial ambition, separatist sentiment and economic realities.

Hurricane Sarah
Andrew Stephen
McCain's new partnership with a telegenic mother-of-five has dramatically shifted the dynamics and direction of the election

Regulars
New Statesman Leader
A prime opportunity to pick apart Tory rhetoric. Beyond the bluster and sabre-rattling, there is little of substance in what Cameron has said about Georgia in the past month

New Statesman Leader
No place for children

The Thinking - Inequality kills
Peter Wilby
Politicians take heed: social injustice is, literally, deadly

Africa - The famous things they never said
Michela Wrong
The mystery of a famous quotation that cannot actually be found

Shown the red card
Marc Bennetts
Observations on Russia

At the border
Abigail Fielding-Smith
Observations on Lebanon

Arts & Culture
Seeing the bigger picture
Mark Lynas
A soon-to-be published collection of photographs demonstrates that art is vital in helping us understand the impact of human beings on the environment

Books
With the peaceful end of the Cold War , the United Nations seemed poised to preside over a new and stable world order. Since then, events in the Balkans, in Rwanda and elsewhere have shown how vain these hopes were. How did the UN become so ineffectual? And can it ever recover?
Reviewed by Carne Ross

Smoke and Mirrors: an Experience of China
Reviewed by Sukhdev Sandhu