| Editor's Choice In this week's New Statesman This week's New Statesman is a special issue devoted to the world's most dangerous country -- Pakistan. In our lead essay, William Dalrymple looks at how the country's history of nurturing jihadis as a means of survival is beginning to backfire.
Elsewhere, Fatima Bhutto denounces Pakistan's political elite for abandoning the country in its hour of need and Samira Shackle reports from Bradford on the uncertain future facing the city's Mirpuri community. Also don't miss a revealing interview with Imran Khan and an exclusive short story from Aamer Hussein.
In British politics, Labour leadership candidate Ed Miliband tells Jason Cowley and Mehdi Hasan that he won't be defined by the right-wing press and reveals, for the first time, that he would never work with Nick Clegg. Meanwhile, ahead of this weekend's Australian election, Labour MP Caroline Flint asks why Britain lacks its own Julia Gillard.
All this plus John Pilger on why we must defend WikiLeaks, David Blanchflower on the growing risk of a double-dip recession and Maurice Glasmanon how the Tories seized Labour's language. The issue is on sale now, or you can subscribe through the website. Get a FREE copy of Noam Chomsky's Hopes and Prospects when you start your annual subscription today for just £82. This week we want to hear from you. Complete the New Statesman opinion survey today and be in with a chance to win one of three cases of wine from Corney & Barrow, worth £150 each. The five most read blogs - Is this the most honest political poster ever? | Jon Bernstein
- The west must not use women's rights to justify war | Laurie Penny
- Gilbey on Film: casting Kurt Cobain | Ryan Gilbey
- Labour and the Tories neck and neck on 37% | George Eaton
- Frank Kermode, 1919-2010 | Jonathan Derbyshire
 | BFI South America Season This week the BFI's South American Renaissance season begins with The Motorcycle Diaries, a road movie charting the coming of age of Che Guevara. Marcelo Gomes' Cinema, Asprins and Vultures is a handsomely shot road movie, which documents an unlikely friendship in compromised times.
Other highlights include Play, a film that fashions eccentric parallel tales in an odyssey through a 21st-century metropolis, Lower City, a love-triangle drama, and Madeinusa, a ravishingly shot debut, where a sinister meeting of imagination and anthropology occurs. | Leader: Pakistan: the laboratory for world destruction
Star pupils and self-service specialists
By Peter Wilby
A* at A-level will help universities pick candidates from fee-charging schools while self-service supermarket tills destroy jobs. The Illusionist (PG)
Ryan Gilbey admires a fitting animated tribute to Edinburgh. Vexed
Rachel Cooke on an atrocious comedy police drama. | |
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