The world’s biggest landowners | Martha Nussbaum on why politeness matters | Laurie Penny on Charlie Sheen

Weekly Online Newsletter 10 March 2011 Home Editor's Choice Features Regulars Arts & Books Blogs Subscribe   Editor's Choice IN THIS WEEK'S NEW STATESMAN: who owns the world? In this week's New Statesman, Kevin Cahill reveals the most powerful global landowners. In the second part of our exclusive investigation on land ownership, he shows that royals - from the Queen of England to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia - still own the most land worldwide. Elsewhere, Mehdi Hasan offers a rare defence of the Liberal Democrats, David Blanchflower argues that we can't trust George Osborne when Mervyn King is warning of a second crash, and the former police commissioner Ian Blair suggests that we can learn from New York's policing. Also this week, Alice Miles reviews Sarah Brown's memoir and finds it ultimately to be a public relations exercise, Brendan Simms wonders whether David Cameron will pursue old-style Tory "pessimist realism" in Libya, Samira Shackle interviews Valerie Plame Wilson, the CIA agent outed by the Bush administration during the Iraq War, and Martha Nussbaum argues that politeness is an essential element of free speech. All this, plus Kevin Maguire's Common's Confidential, Laurie Penny on Charlie Sheen's problem with women, and John Pilger on the Kafkaesque justice system that awaits Julian Assange. The issue is on sale now, or you can subscribe through the website. Get a FREE copy of John Gray's The Immortalization Commission: Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death when you start your annual subscription today for just £82. The five most read blogs "How on earth do you sleep at night, David Cameron?" | Samira Shackle Violence against women in Tahrir Square | Laurie Penny Is Auntie scared of the C-word? | Steven Baxter Cameron abandons hands off approach to government | Samira Shackle The shame of Britain's universities | Duncan Robinson Regulars Leader: The melancholy and turmoil of the talented Mr Hague     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.