Editor's Choice IN THIS WEEK'S NEW STATESMAN: Pakistan's dirty secret In this week's New Statesman, we go inside Pakistan's ISI, the spy network that backed Bin Laden. In our cover story, Anatol Lieven says that the west is doomed to try to co-operate with the ISI - without trusting it an inch. Elsewhere, Mehdi Hasan considers survival strategies for the Lib Dems, John Pilger reveals how the Murdoch press silenced the Aborigines, David Blanchflower looks at Alex Salmond's economic headache, and Alice Miles argues that Andrew Lansley's NHS reforms do not go far enough. Also this week, Dan Hodges gives the chaotic inside story of the No to AV campaign, Tim Montgomerie reveals how Cameron will protect Clegg, and former Labour cabinet minister Charles Falconer says Labour needs to embrace nationalism in Scotland. All this, plus an interview with actor and "attention-seeker" James Corden, Harold Bloom on Samuel Johnson's passion for writing, and Will Self on jargon. The issue is on sale now, or you can subscribe through the website. Get a FREE copy of Sam Harris's The Moral Landscape when you start your annual subscription today for just £87. The five most read blogs - The £12m question: how WikiLeaks gags its own staff | David Allen Green
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