29 January 2001

Dyke is just Birt with a grin

By David Cox

Has the BBC changed under its genial new director general? Hardly at all is the surprising answer, reports David Cox

Why do women want children?

By Yvonne Roberts

They spend half their lives avoiding pregnancy, the other half seeking it. Yvonne Roberts asks why

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Come on: look at me!

By John Lloyd

With so many competing products, advertising has to work harder than ever. John Lloyd explains how

Auberon Waugh, hero of the left

By Neil Clark

Polly Toynbee is wrong. The writer she reviled as a "ghastly man" should be celebrated alongside George Lansbury and Fidel Castro, arguesNeil Clark

It's all a mugger's game now

By Jeremy Seabrook

Targets, checklists, even extra cash, may not help the NHS and the police. They were just not designed for the violence of our age

Tories agree: no terror tactics

By Simon Heffer

Come the election, you won't find Widdecombe in London. Simon Hefferexplains why

Let local councils vary income tax

By Michael Jacobs

NS/Fabian Society Second-Term Agenda - Let local councils vary income tax

Beyond the sentries of hell

By Stephen Smith

"Addicted to drink and women." More than 35 years ago, that was Che Guevara's verdict on Laurent Kabila and, with the Congo president now dead, Stephen Smithfinds it as fitting an epitaph as any

Reds come in from the cold

By Paul Starling

Cardiff - Paul Starling

Waging war on wee Ally McBeals

By Tim Luckhurst

Don't mock Tommy Sheridan's Scottish Socialist Party. It helps the poor get their stairwells cleaned and it could win 10 per cent of the Glasgow vote

How Michael Jordan disproved a Marxist theory

By Robert Winder

Paul Routledge

By Paul Routledge

Despite the threat of a cutarse, I was ready to rumble

By Darcus Howe

When values are rejected, a man seems no better than a dog

By Cristina Odone

"Sort it," the man said to my boyfriend, jabbing his finger at me. I was not sorted

By Lauren Booth

Competition - Win a bottle of champagne