25 September 2000

Is this the end for the green agenda?

By Tom Burke

Tom Burke argues that, because taxes rarely achieve their intended effects, the fuel protests may prove beneficial to the environment, after all

Change the world? Not if you're an MP

By Mark Lattimer

If you want justice or lower petrol taxes, don't bother with parliament, advises Mark Lattimer

Sorry, but this is the working class

By Paul Barker

Loony tunes? Fascists? Paul Barker laments the left's snobbery towards the fuel tax protesters

They are planning to take the piss out of you

By Nick Cohen

If you like a few pints in the evening, beware of the urine test when you clock on next morning, advises Nick Cohen

Where Eubank comes through walls

By Lynne Truss

With casual sex, bodies in trunks and two piers, it's no wonder Brighton is home to the likes of Fat Boy Slim, Julie Burchill and Steve Coogan. Lynne Truss reports

Promises, promises for one and all

By Joan Bakewell

With old loyalties gone, politicians must satisfy consumer appetites

Could Labour win without Blair?

By Peter Kellner

Talk about the need to reconnect with the "core vote" really means: down with Tony. Peter Kellnerasks if the PM is dispensable

Say thank you to Mr Brown

By Donald Hirsch

This is the first Labour government in history to do more for social justice than it promised

Pssst. . . like a Powergen leaflet?

By John O'Farrell

Why do businesses take stalls at the Labour conference? John O'Farrell suspects a more cunning plot than meets the eye

Hartlepool still awaits its saviour

By Peter Dunn

The economic boom has bypassed Peter Mandelson's constituents. Peter Dunn reveals that their cries for help have been ignored

How Brown got a grip on the euro

By John Kampfner

The Chancellor has skilfully arranged that a decision on Britain's entry to the single currency is for him and him alone. John Kampfnerreports

How to win over the pensioners

By Frank Field

Frank Field offers the Chancellor a new idea for concentrating help on the elderly poor without means-testing their benefits

Where Satan went to find his wife

By Nathan Franklin

Returning to his home town of Leicester, where he grew up on a series of sink estates, Nathan Franklin marvels at how foreign the past really is

It's joy for a son of Dunfermline

By Matthew Taylor

Matthew Taylor reveals (almost) the people's choice of new Labour Oscars and turkeys

The Co-op faces the barbarians

By John Monks

Demutualisation rages on, but the co-operative movement will resist

Diary

George Bush Jr never witnessed an execution. I did, in June this year. I felt nauseous and angry

By Bianca Jagger

Paul Routledge

By Paul Routledge

How science turned our bodies into moral templates

By Cristina Odone

The CRE is a ghetto; it is time to bid it farewell

By Darcus Howe

This England

When a child asks you to close your eyes, my advice is to keep them open by half a millimetre

By Sean French

Media

Despite all the column inches, nobody told us what was going on

By Ian Hargreaves

Media - Ian Hargreaves

We excel at birthdays. But when it comes to deaths, we are positively deficient

By Laurie Taylor

Competition - Win a bottle of champagne