29 January 2007

Yes, we can save the world . . . if we want to

By Chris Luebkeman

Chris Luebkeman asks whether we are ready to change everything

A matter of security

By Josh Arnold-Forster

Why is the MoD so seriously concerned about global warming? Josh Arnold-Forster on the social collapse we are not prepared for

The green rush

By James Harding

Businesses are vying to save the planet, and getting rich. But does it matter, so long as they deliver the goods?

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Interview: Harriet Harman

By Martin Bright and John Kampfner

The constitutional affairs minister warns colleagues that they can't be a "little bit against discrimination"

The silent slip to destruction

By David Blunkett

Public services have been taken over by unelected bureaucrats. David Blunkett says we are all ill served by removing politicians from the decisions

Religion of despair

By Chris Hedges

Disciples of evangelism in the United States are often regarded with fear and suspicion. But for many it's seen as a route out of poverty and hopelessness

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Bush's war on women

By Kira Cochrane

To further its anti-abortion crusade, the US denies aid to any NGO that offers safe terminations to the world's poorest women

The science of ourselves

By Joe Moran

Seventy years ago this week, a letter in the New Statesman launched the Mass-Observation project. It was the birth of a public fascination with "ordinary" lives which is still with us.

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Diary

The beauty of booty, especially when it's legal

By Paul Arnott

Gary is a former punk and veteran of the Blair Peach protests. He's now a first-rate community bobby, but even he didn't realise how wonderfully lawless the law can be

Village Life

Old ties, blue stockings

By Kevin Maguire

Pity the trio. You know the era is over when it’s better to be a rebel than a loyalist

Green Thinking

The low-carbon revolution starts here

By Mark Lynas

The carbon clock is ticking, worried citizens can hear it but in Westminster they appear to have gone deaf

Healthwatch: Cancer treatment shames Britain

By Lois Rogers

Get a cancer diagnosis and you might be best placed leaving Britain for treatment

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Urban Life

Jade Goody learned her trade in London

By Darcus Howe

How Jade's behaviour happens every day in every part of Britain - so there's no point in blaming Channel 4 says Darcus Howe

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Media

Forgotten friends in the north

By Brian Cathcart

As far as political news value goes, Scotland has a standing roughly on a par with a middle-sized English local authority

Human Rights

It could have been me

By Anita Roddick

Bodyshop founder Anita Roddick, who has died aged 64, wrote a number of articles for the NS. Earlier this year she wrote in support of Rebiya Kadeer in our human rights pages.

This England

From our archive

Trotsky in Mexico

By Kingsley Martin

How former New Statesman editor Kingsley Martin went to Mexico to interview Trotsky in 1937

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Julian's week

By Julian Clary

I'm going to be locked in a room with Kilroy-Silk and Wendy Richards. That would unsettle the Dalai Lama

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Thanks a bundle No 3962

Set by George Cowley
We asked for thank-you letters from famous people for unwanted Christmas presents