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Weekly Online Newsletter 22 March 2011 Home Editor's Choice Features Regulars Arts & Books Blogs Subscribe   The ten must-read blogs from the last week on newstatesman.com Libya: the 13 rebel MPs The full list of the 13 MPs who voted against military action. By George Eaton Morning Call: pick of the papers The ten must-read pieces from this morning's papers. Is Cameron a statesman or a showman? The truth is David Cameron caught a break over Libya. But next time he may not be so lucky. By Dan Hodges War is sport, sport is war I feel like I'm spoiling all the fun, but I find it distasteful to reduce the Libya campaign to a football score. By Steven Baxter Libya polls show British public is divided ComRes poll finds 35 per cent in favour of action and 43 per cent opposed to it. By Samira Shackle My night at the Shaftas What I learned at the porn industry's annual awards ceremony. By Laurie Penny The Queen and her despotic friends Why is the king of Bahrain coming to the royal wedding? By Mehdi Hasan Another blow for George ahead of Budget day OECD suggests that growth will be lower than forecast. By David Blanchflower Budget 2011: shock doctrine in the UK George Osborne's Budget will attempt a radical social re-engineering of the UK. By Simon Reid-Henry Comment is free - and pointless Can anyone give a good reason why ministers should bother reading commentary in newspapers? By Olly Grender Features Yemen's state-funded thugs By Nir Rosen President Ali Abdullah Saleh has played up the threat of al-Qaeda in Yemen to receive military aid from the US. But the money is being used to crush dissent. The Week so Far Regulars Leader: The coalition's anti-banking rhetoric fools nobody Should the coalition fail to break up the banks, it will make a repeat of the crash not just possible, but inevitable. Arts & Culture Submarine (15) and Ballast (15) By Ryan Gilbey Only one of these debut directors has found his voice.     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.