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New Statesman - Monday 13 October 2008 |
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 Selection of articles from the British weekly.
Cover story
What happens when the money runs out ?
Banks need the confidence of the public to survive and they have lost it for years to come. The danger is that if governments take on their role, they too will lose the trust of the people
Features
Days of sunshine and grace
John Pilger
Sep was tall, handsome and languid, with a laconic half-smile like Errol Flynn's. On Saturdays he would show us slick dives off a Bondi bogie hole. John Pilger on a star that the world never knew
The disaster we have yet to face
Jacques Attali finds disturbing similarities between the financial tsunami and the climate crisis we are failing to prevent
The missing women
Alice Miles
A stronger female presence in the top banking jobs might have made a difference
Don't blame me for Labour's failings
John Redwood
Nationalising the banks will merely transfer risk to the taxpayer. John Redwood, who warns against playing petty politics, on Labour's catalogue of failure
Class war zone
Francis Gilbert
Aggressive and disruptive behaviour blights many state schools, and the only remedy - excluding pupils - isn't working. Mentoring troubled children is more effective...
A Nobel cause
The papilloma virus, captured by an electron micrograph. On 6 October Dr Harald zur Hausen of the University of Düsseldorf was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work showing that the virus causes cervical cancer. The disease is the second most common cancer in women. The prize will be presented in Stockholm on 10 December.
Regulars
New Statesman Leader - The hostilities in the Labour Party are over , but now to avert a great depression
New Statesman Leader - We have no imperial right to remake nations
Politics - Out of the bunker
Martin Bright
In the end the rescue package for the banks was the right thing but the Prime Minister stands accused of dithering, of being behind the curve rather than ahead of it
Columns - Obama woos the Rust Belt
Alec MacGillis
For all the talk of Obama's "new politics", the presidency might well be determined by trade union members in failing industrial cities
Arts & Culture
Different every time
Daniel Trilling
Robert Wyatt is one of the most influential musicians of his era. Daniel Trilling visited him at home to talk about his musical tastes, communism and pork sausages
Books
The Booker Prize , which will be awarded on 14 October, is 40 years old, but it wasn't always the 600lb gorilla of literary prizes. John Sutherland recalls how a demure award came to embrace the values of the Thatcherite Eighties
Reviewed by John Sutherland
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