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Weekly Online Newsletter 5 April 2011 Home Editor's Choice Features Regulars Arts & Books Blogs Subscribe   The ten must-read blogs from the last week on newstatesman.com Video: Julian Assange, New Statesman/Frontline Club debate Speaking for the proposition: "This house believes whistleblowers make the world a safer place." By New Statesman World exclusive: Hugh Grant turns the tables on the phone-hackers The bugger, bugged. By New Statesman Banning things and liberal values Why the French are wrong about face veils. By David Allen Green Morning Call: pick of the papers The ten must-read pieces from this morning's papers. Clegg's tuition fees headache gets bigger The University of Sheffield joins the £9,000 club. By George Eaton The whistle-blower debate Me and Julian Assange v Douglas Murray and Bob Ayers. By Mehdi Hasan I shot Bambi I was the one behind the AV baby ad. By Dan Hodges Willetts has reminded us that social mobility is a scam The entire premise of social mobility rests on the blithe acceptance of social inequality. By Laurie Penny You don't need to learn about journalism to be a journalist I can't do 100 words a minute shorthand, have never sat through a council meeting or done a death knock. So what? By Steve Baxter So exactly who does agree with Osborne? The voice of the IMF can now be added to the ever-growing chorus denouncing the measures of the Chancellor. By David Blanchflower Regulars Leader: Democracy depends upon a free media and an informed public By Jemima Khan The WikiLeaks cables exposed government corruption, war crimes and human rights abuses. Arts & Culture The Crimson Petal and the White (BBC2) By Rachel Cooke There is a stench of hypocrisy in a new adaptation     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.