Mini Mao

19-25 June

FEATURES

Jonathan Fenby on Xi Jinping, China's most powerful leader since Mao.

George Eaton interviews the leading Labour Eurosceptic Kate Hoey.

Christian Donlan on a year of living with multiple sclerosis.

CRITICS

The award-winning novelist Ali Smith on Barbara Hepworth.

David Patrikarakos on the US army and the spread of drones.

George Szirtes on a new Penguin anthology that displays the reawakening of Russian poetry.

Jon Cruddas on Steve Hilton's ideas-rich manifesto More Human.

COLUMNS

Shiraz Maher: Don't view Britain's suicide bombers and female jihadis as victims - they know exactly what they're doing.

Simon Wren-Lewis: There is no economic rationale for Osborne's surplus plan.

George Eaton: As the Labour left ascends, the Blairites partly have themselves to blame.

Will Self: In every gutter of Britain's towns and cities, you'll find grim discarded evidence of David Cameron's "care in the community".

Suzanne Moore: The girls in the prison had done some bad things, but what they did to themselves was worse.

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