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New Statesman - Monday 23 June 2008 |
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Selection of articles from the British weekly
Cover story
Truly, madly, politically
David Davis's snap resignation struck a chord with people because it was spontaneous and unscripted. But why did so many commentators struggle with the idea it was a reasoned decision, ponders Demos director Catherine Fieschi. And why do we have a problem with emotion in politics?
Features
The key is respect
Ed Miliband
The government needs to change the relationship between state and citizen, writes the Minister for the Cabinet Office
Power v poverty
Duncan Green
Privatisation, free trade and market forces . . . the rich world insists poor states play by our rules. But they don't work. Time to let countries determine their own destinies?
Obama's first presidency
Geoffrey Robertson
As a brilliant student, the Democratic candidate became the first black editor of the influential Harvard Law Review. What does volume 140 reveal about his future career?
Can't take the heat
Andrew Stephen
Washington ground to a halt in a recent heatwave. What better proof of how America's infrastructure is crumbling?
Regulars
New Statesman Leader - There is a political deficit at the heart of Europe A constitution should be something that people demand of a government, not have forced on them to enhance "efficiency"
The Thinking - The price of failure
Peter Wilby
Labelling schools undermines customer confidence
Shazia's Week - Before Google ...
Shazia Mirza
The rise of the far right
Jon Cruddas and Nick Lowles
The New Labour project relied on the assumption that its traditional support had nowhere else to go. But this is now changing, and the BNP has emerged as one beneficiary
Troubled borders
Michela Wrong
Observations on Africa
Arts & Culture
Poetry without motion
Robin Simon
The paintings of Vilhelm Hammershøi were derided in his lifetime for being stark and uneventful. To the modern viewer, however, they capture a mood of existential angst
Hidden dragon
Alice O'Keeffe
Huang Yong Ping lit a rocket under China's art Establishment when he founded the Xiamen Dada group in the 1980s. The struggle continues, he tells Alice O'Keeffe
Film - A talent in need of nurture
Ryan Gilbey
Stylistic gusto fails to hide the flimsy nature of this Dylan Thomas biopic The Edge of Love (15)
dir: John Maybury
Television - Before the age of reality TV
Rachel Cooke
A look back to 1988 suggests that we've lost the art of making documentaries
Afghantsi
Sport - Schadenthingy
Hunter Davies
Watching Euro 2008 brings out the strangest feelings
Ideas - Take the talking cure
Gloria Origgi
Gloria Origgi on why a second language is the best antidote to intolerance
Books
Terrorism will become more common and more destructive in the 21st century. But is al-Qaeda really so new and uniquely dangerous?
Reviewed by Carne Ross
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