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New Statesman - Monday 28 July 2008 |
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 Selection of articles from the British weekly
Cover story
Cash and the class system
The old social markers are all redundant. British society is now a money nation shaped exclusively by wealth - airs and graces no longer matter
Features
Catching Karadzic
Misha Glenny
How did one of Europe's most wanted men give the security forces the slip for so long? Because the Serbs didn't need to seize him until now
No, class counts more than ever
Peter Wilby
Labour's soppy love for America
Andrew Stephen
The British government enthuses over US institutions and policies just when it is becoming clear that they are failing - as the Sats fiasco shows
Regulars
New Statesman Leader - How Labour's tough talk on benefits missed the point The biggest fraud has been the manipulation of unemployment figures by successive governments
New Statesman Leader - Has class been dismissed ?
Politics - When Marx met Mills
Martin Bright
People just don't want to be told. Personal political responsibility, like virtue, is notoriously difficult to teach
Media - Getting giddy over Obama
Brian Cathcart
He is the Fab One, the new Diana, a cross between Nelson Mandela and Bill Clinton, and when he comes to town we want to see his specialness for ourselves
Despatches - Obama, the prince of bait-and-switch
John Pilger
I interviewed a woman who had lost eight members of her family, including six children to a US bomb - but mass murder in Afghanistan isn't news
Columns - The enduring appeal of Nazi chic
Angela Neustatter
In the subculture of S&M, Nazi uniforms are an industry of their own
Beliefs - Pakistan must cure itself of the Taliban
Ziauddin Sardar
Many believe the Talibanisation of Pakistan is well under way and impossible to reverse
Israel's war by water
Ron Taylor
Observations on Palestine
Arts & Culture
Edinburgh, open city
Every August, the Scottish capital plays host to the world's biggest season of arts events. Here, NS critics preview their highlights of this year's festival
Disorderly conduct
Daniel Trilling
The drum'n'bass DJ Goldie has always found classical music elitist - yet it needn't be so
Reboot - On the side of neutrality
Wendy M Grossman
A conflict of interest over traffic charges threatens the web's long-term
potential, warns Wendy M Grossman
Books
Doping scandals continue to tarnish the glory of cycling's top event - the Tour de France. A book by a disillusioned fan examines the sport's hard-to-kick drug habit
Reviewed by Geoffrey Wheatcroft
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