This Week's Magazine

The disaster we have yet to face

By Jacques Attali

Jacques Attali finds disturbing similarities between the financial tsunami and the climate crisis we are failing to prevent

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The missing women

By Alice Miles

A stronger female presence in the top banking jobs might have made a difference

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Don't blame me for Labour's failings

By 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

The facade cracks

By James Macintyre

David Cameron is widely accepted as a "moderniser" and as having heralded a new kind of Conservatism. But are these changes quite so deep as he would have us believe?

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Class war zone

By 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.

New Statesman Leader

We have no imperial right to remake nations

Diary

The French for really sad thoughts

By Sigrid Rausing

I have had 17 emails so far, some requiring long and thoughtful responses. I answer on my BlackBerry in between writing this and testing my son on French adjectives

Politics

Out of the bunker

By 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

Tactical Briefing

By Jesse Armstrong

From: The Unit
To: GB
Subject: Requests for GB Moneyfacts

Obama woos the Rust Belt

By 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

Village Life

Polly snubs Miliboy

By Kevin Maguire

All the gossip from Inside Westminster

Media

News hit by whiteout

By Brian Cathcart

The press is still in panicky denial over diversity and racism, as the coverage of Sir Ian Blair's departure shows

This England

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Shazia's Week

Sharon's week

By Shazia Mirza

My name's Shazia Mirza." "Sharon Matthews?" he asked. "No, Shazia Mirza!" To annoy the man behind the desk, I wrote “Jamaican” under nationality. “Thank you,” he said

Uni on the soapbox No 4047

Press reports say Cambridge University thinks soap operas can help it shed its elitist image and has written to producers of EastEnders, Coronation Street and Emmerdale, etc, asking them to include a mention of the august institution in their storylines. We asked for some sample scripts
Set by Brendan O'Byrne