Dawkins interviews Hitchens | Frozen Planet "faked"? Come off it | Laurie Penny: Bloomberg's "private army"

Weekly Online Newsletter 13 December 2011 HOME EDITOR'S CHOICE FEATURES REGULARS ARTS & BOOKS BLOGS JOBS SUBSCRIBE Editor's Choice The ten must-read blogs from the last week on newstatesman.com Preview: Richard Dawkins interviews Christopher Hitchens Exclusive extracts from Dawkins's interview with the polemicist in Texas. By George Eaton Richard Dawkins attacks David Cameron over faith schools An open letter to the Prime Minister from the New Statesman's guest editor. By NewStatesman Frozen Planet "faked" polar bear birth? Oh, come off it Natural history programmes have reconstructed things for years. By Steve Baxter On the streets with Bloomberg's "private army" "Whose tweets? Our tweets!" Sometimes, only puns will do. By Laurie Penny "What is the point of the Liberal Democrats?" They have sacrificed their distinctive beliefs and principles and received little in return. By Mehdi Hasan Cameron's EU veto: "conspiracy or cock up?" The PM is confident because his stance is popular. But some MPs are querying whether the whole thing was stage-managed. By Rafael Behr "I agree with Nick." Why Ed brought it back The old pre-election refrain gets an airing. By Richard Morris Keeping poetry outside the comfort zone A poem is an active, not a contemplative, entity - it should channel disobedience. By John Kinsella How Fox News hid the fall in unemployment News channel's graph ignores fall in unemployment from 9 per cent to 8.6 per cent. By George Eaton The battle against privatisation Outsourcing of public services continues apace as austerity bites. By Kate Belgrave Subscribe! The issue is on sale now, or you can subscribe through the website. Print Edition Special Offer Get a FREE copy of Arguably, by Christopher Hitchens when you start your annual subscription today for just £87. New Statesman Jobs Now recruiting New Statesman Jobs is the job site for intelligent and forward thinking job seekers. Click below to search jobs from our featured employers. Interim Senior Cateogry Manager South East England £275 - £300 per day The key purpose of the role is to support in the development and ownership of the rolling 3 year category vision, drivers and tactics for these categories, and to sell in this vision externally with retail customers, as well as internally to the wider category and customer marketing teams. Search thousands of top-quality jobs, click here Sign up to New Statesman Jobs   Subscribe 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.