America’s fear of Islam | Jon Cruddas: The Tories’ attack on the poor | Bob Woodward interview

Weekly Online Newsletter 28 October 2010 Home Editor's Choice Features Regulars Arts & Books Blogs Subscribe   Editor's Choice IN THIS WEEK'S NEW STATESMAN... This week's New Statesman is a special issue devoted to next Tuesday's US midterm elections. In our cover story, Mehdi Hasan says opponents of the "Ground Zero mosque" are giving the perpetrators of the 11 September attacks exactly what they wanted: a clash of civilisations. Elsewhere, Paul Mason reports from Indiana and finds a population growing ever more restless in the face of an anaemic economic recovery. Also this week, Alice Miles explains what Tea Party women really want, Labour MP Jon Cruddas warns that the Tories are planning to cleanse the poor from our cities and David Blanchflower says that the economic recovery could be blown off course by George Osborne's austerity package. All this, plus an interview with legendary investigative journalist Bob Woodward, Kevin Maguire's Westminster diary and the truth about Wayne Rooney by his ghostwriter, Hunter Davies. The issue is on sale now, or you can subscribe through the website. Get a FREE copy of Steve Bell's If ... Bursts Out when you start your annual subscription today for just £82. The five most read blogs Insurrection on Oxford Street | Laurie Penny PMQs verdict: Cameron beats Miliband on points | George Eaton In praise of Steven Baxter | David Allen Green The war on welfare scroungers, part 77 | Mehdi Hasan The coalition eyes a compromise on housing benefit | George Eaton Features Weekly Briefing Regulars Leader: It's time for the orator-in-chief to rediscover his voice Arts & Culture The Kids Are All Right (15) By Ryan Gilbey Annette Bening's return to the screen warrants a public holiday. The Secret Life of the National Grid By Rachel Cooke Beauty is uncovered in the most surprising of subjects     This Week's Issue Kindly note that if you receive this e-mail your e-mail address is being held by us for the purpose of communicating with you on New Statesman related matters. If you do not wish us to e-mail you, please unsubscribe from this list. New Statesman Limited is a Data Controller for the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1998. © New Statesman Ltd. 2009. The above information may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient of this email please destroy it. As Internet communications are not secure please note that the New Statesman does not accept legal responsibility for the content of this email message.