First up this week -- and featured on the cover -- are Newsnight's Paul Mason and our own John Pilger on the unfolding eurozone drama and why what's happening in Greece today, will hit Britain tomorrow.

Elsewhere, we examine the fallout from the general election: Mehdi Hasan wages war on the defeatism within the Labour Party while our political correspondent, James Macintyre, tells the inside story of the failed Lib Dem-Labour talks. Meanwhile, in Commons Confidential, Kevin Maguire shares news of David Cameron's "Operation De-Toff".

In The Critics, Ryan Gilbey salutes the darkly eccentric Bad Lieutenant, starring Nicolas Cage, while Rachel Cooke indulges in some Eighties nostalgia in the Boy George biopic Worried About the Boy.

Finally, on the day Diane Abbott and Andy Burnham joined the race, don't forget to keep up to date on all things Labour leadership on newstatesman.com.

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