World Affairs: Global Issues
Lead Feature
Hazel Blears and IslamExpo
Hazel Blears explains her opposition to IslamExpo and the politics of the Muslim Brotherhood-Hamas
In global issues
The hell of Bolzaneto
- By Monica Frassoni
- 17 July
Leading Italian Green politician Monica Frassoni on the brutality of Italian police at the Genoa G8 and how victims will never get justice in the home of the mafia
A Green New Deal
- By Mark Lynas
- 17 July
A "war economy" social mobilisation harnessed, this time not towards fighting fascism, but towards heading off ecological crisis
Berry last blog
- By Sian Berry
- 14 July
Since newstatesman.com relaunched on 30 November 2006 Sian Berry has been a regular contributor on her blog. Now she heads off to a new role at the Green Party so is stepping down...
Drunk driving at G8
- By Kate Raworth
- 11 July
Oxfam's Kate Raworth gives her take on the achievements of the G8 summit and compares the outcome to intentional drunk driving...
A sea change on immigration?
- By Martin Bright
- 10 July
On public service reform, the government is at last beginning to listen to front-line staff, rather than Whitehall mandarins
Ending women free zones
- By Giles Fraser
- 08 July
Priest and academic Giles Fraser hails the progress towards consecrating women as bishops in the Church of England - an end to an unjustifiable discrimination lasting centuries
Feature
Fair trade through Doha
It's make or break on a Doha deal worth 120 billion euros per year, argues Trade and Development Minister Gareth Thomas, in a call to resist the "forces of protectionism" in the US and elsewhere
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