27 August 2001
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Cover story
The urban guerrillas Britain forgot
In the late Sixties and early Seventies, the Angry Brigade enraged the establishment. Jonathon Greenon the questions that remain unanswered 30 years on
Features
Last orders down at MacFoney's
Now even Dublin has opened Irish theme pubs for tourists. Patrick Westreports
The great television flop
Digital has come to a halt; steam telly is enjoying a resurgence. A good time, suggests David Cox, to force the BBC to rethink its grandiose plans
Tatty or tarty, jeans got our vote this year
The fashion gurus promised miniskirts. Annalisa Barbieri on why it didn't happen
Essay
The New Statesman Essay - Let traitors flinch
In the new Labour Party, the scarlet standard is out, the Union flag in; but ministers are still confused about patriotism
Culture
A girl and a gun
Jean-Luc Godard was cherished by successive generations of theory nerds. But Charlotte Raven discovers a much funnier side to this serious artist
Beautiful and damned
Photography - Ned Denny on the deathly stillness of the first daguerreotypes
Boom and bust
Edinburgh Festival - Patrick O'Connor has Jacques Brel for breakfast
Television
Fame, fame, fatal fame
Television - Andrew Billen is fascinated and horrified by the lives of modern celebs
Books
Living with dead time. The Situationists believed they could change the world. They ended up destroying themselves. Will Self on the death of the avant-garde
The Game of War: the life and death of Guy Debord Andrew Hussey Jonathan Cape, 420pp, £18.99 ISBN 022404348X The Map is Not the Territory Alan Woods and Ralph Rumney Manchester University Press, 204pp, £25
Paperback reader
A Mad World, My Masters John Simpson Pan Books, 436pp, £7.99 ISBN 0330355678
Pleasure zone
Swift as Desire Laura Esquivel Doubleday, 256pp, £12.99 ISBN 0385602766
The Lord's view
The Picador Book of Cricket Edited by Ramachandra Guha Picador, 476pp, £20 ISBN 0330396129
The longest journey
Ghost Soldiers Hampton Sides Little, Brown, 342pp, £12.99 ISBN 0316858153
Novel of the week
My Name is Red Orhan Pamuk Faber, 417pp, £10.99 ISBN 0571200478
The e-world is not eco-friendly
Commentary - David Sharp on why science publishers are facing their greatest crisis for 300 years
