Who owns Britain? | John Pilger: Chile’s corrupt elite | The return of Alan B’Stard

Weekly Online Newsletter 14 October 2010 Home Editor's Choice Features Regulars Arts & Books Blogs Subscribe   Editor's Choice IN THIS WEEK'S NEW STATESMAN... In this week's New Statesman, we look at the coming battle over land and property and reveal who really owns Britain. In our cover story, NS editor Jason Cowley argues for shifting the tax burden from earned to unearned income (property sales, inheritance, land ownership) and says land reform must become a convulsive political issue once more. Elsewhere, as the world focuses on the Chilean mine rescue, John Pilger exposes the political and economic abuse that continues to blight the country, Mehdi Hasan warns Ed Miliband not to be defined by his enemies and John McTernan, formerly Tony Blair's political secretary, puts the Blairite case for Labour's new leader. Also this week, Jonathan Powell explains what today's politicians can learn from Machiavelli, David Blanchflower warns that the Tories' figures still don't add up and Alan B'Stard, the self-proclaimed architect of New Labour, returns to public life with a new column. All this, plus Kevin Maguire's Commons Confidential, Laurie Penny on the corporate attempt to cash in on cancer and Ryan Gilbey on the dark history of Facebook. The issue is on sale now, or you can subscribe through the website. Get a FREE copy of Dennis Kavanagh and Philip Cowley's The British General Election of 2010 when you start your annual subscription today for just £82. The five most read blogs Passwords and prosecutions | David Allen Green A breathtaking attack on social mobility | Laurie Penny Preview: NS interview with Gore Vidal | Daniel Trilling Exclusive: Ted Hughes's poem on the night Sylvia Plath died | Daniel Trilling Ed Miliband gets the better of Cameron in first PMQs | George Eaton Regulars Leader: A market in higher education would be calamitous Lord Browne's proposals would create a two-tier system and deter the poorest from applying. Arts & Culture The Social Network (12A) By Ryan Gilbey Ryan Gilbey delves into the dark history of Facebook. A History of Horror By Rachel Cooke Mark Gatiss is most definitely a Good Thing     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.