29 October 2001
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Cover story
America's ambassador to the world
Tony Blair is waging a one-man war, ignoring both the cabinet and the Foreign Office in order to prove his unflagging support for George Bush
Features
We got into bed with the wrong 'uns
The US has sidelined its Afghan allies in the fight against the Taliban. Tim Lambon reports
Who's in charge?
Deadly anthrax attacks have caused widespread panic in America. So where is the firm political leadership that will inspire hope?
Don't panic. We can still do business
It's the destructive British aversion to risk that entrepreneurs should be worried about, not war or recession
Top ten tips for surviving a recession
Advice to businesses from Stelios Haji-Ioannou, head of the easyGroup
Peaceniks no more
To be part of the US-led coalition against terrorism, the German and Italian lefts are having to shake off decades of anti-militarism, writes John Lloyd
A civil war threatens Arcadia
Whatever happened to the Countryside Alliance? Rural members have grown suspicious of its Labour leadership, reports Roger Scruton
Lost in the swamp of modernity
His survey of scholars around the world convinced Peter Watsonthat, outside the west, there were no new ideas in the 20th century
It's time we moved on from the Holocaust
To outsiders, Berlin is the city of the Final Solution. But in truth, the German capital is host to the fastest-growing Jewish community in the world, reports William Cook
Essay
The New Statesman Essay - The global policeman must play by a new set of rules
The CIA has been given the green light to assassinate Osama Bin Laden. This is merely the latest indication that the United States does not subscribe to international law. It should, argues Anthony Dworkin
Culture
No house for Mr Biswas
Michael Jackson has been hailed as the saviour of British television. So what led him to lose confidence in a new adaptation of V S Naipaul? Tariq Ali on Channel 4's descent into the gutter
A real performance
Music - Simon Callow says we need to bring drama to the concert experience
Theatre
The house of Elyot
Theatre - Katherine Duncan-Jones finds comfort and escape in a heartless Coward comedy
Books
Human, all too human. Undying fidelity is the basic formula underpinning all fanaticism. Edward Skidelsky on the dilemmas of belief in a secular age
Christ: a crisis in the life of God Jack Miles William Heinemann, 383pp, £18.99 ISBN 0434007374
A bum's life
Robert Mitchum: "Baby, I don't care" Lee Server Faber and Faber, 601pp, £20 ISBN 0571209947
A terrible revenge. Peter Dunn recalls the bad old days of Anne Robinson, and wonders at the public monster she became
Memoirs of an Unfit Mother Anne Robinson Little, Brown, 285pp, £16.99 ISBN 0316857777
Reverse thrust
Off the Rails Andrew Murray Verso, 240pp, £14 ISBN 1859846408 Broken Rails Christian Wolmar Aurum Press, 224pp, £9.99
Bright lights, big city
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People Toby Young Little, Brown, 352pp, £9.99 ISBN 0316857912
Novel of the week
Acid Row Minette Walters Macmillan, 352pp, £16.99 ISBN 0333907485
Ways of seeing
Secret Knowledge: rediscovering the lost techniques of the Old Masters David Hockney Thames & Hudson, 296pp, £35 ISBN 0500237859
The adultery writer
A Multitude of Sins Richard Ford Harvill, 278pp, £15.99 ISBN 1860468403
Paperback reader
The German Trauma: experience and reflections 1938-2001 Gitta Sereny Penguin, 383pp, £8.99 ISBN 0140292632
