4 December 1998
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Cover story
Just get out and have fun!
More security and more closed-circuit tv aren't the answers to crime. Instead, argues Mark Leonard, we should make our cities bristle with life
Features
Third way? They'll do it their way
Europe has turned pink and now it is hurtling towards integration; once more, Britain finds itself dangerously isolated, reports John Lloyd
Hard times in the classroom
Francis Beckett thinks that David Blunkett should do the simple thing: give all teachers a decent salary rise
Pinochet: the press got it wrong
The Queen is safe, and so is Margaret Thatcher: the Law Lords' ruling need only worry genuine tyrants, explains Geoffrey Robertson
How to make money from being wrong
Most ITV companies bid too much for their franchises. Guess who pays? Ivor Gaberreports
The wonks are coming of age
Rarely have think-tanks had such an opportunity to influence policy
The charged eel in French politicians' hands
The idea of gay marriage has driven Parisians on to the streets
Held back by Hindu gods?
India has no modern roads, chronic power shortages and a middle class that throws rubbish into the street. Who's to blame, asks John Elliott
Regulars
Arts & Culture
Pointing the finger
We used to fire arrows. Now we just follow them. Hugh Aldersey-Williamscomes over all sagittate
Tehran, SE1
Music
LA lore
Film
American mythic
Music
Diminishing returns
Rock by Richard Cook
All that jazz
Afterword
Books
Erotic literature
Rowan Pelling shows how the classics can kiss us into rapture
Economics
Is the end nigh for global capitalism? John Lloyd on a clutch of fiscal jeremiads
Books of the century
Six writers return to works of great personal or political moment
Best-seller
Since its publication in 1994, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, a historical novel set on the small Greek island of Cephalonia during the second world war, has sold an improbable 900,000 copies. Tom Holland explains why
Publishing
Christopher Gasson mocks the voodoo economics of the modern book trade
Biography
Roz Kaveney trawls through the lives of the great (and the not so great)
Observations
Letters to the Editor
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