12 November 2001
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Features
"Hello, world, I'm George Bush"
US foreign policy, open and pragmatic, is now the polar opposite of what it was two months ago
How a free press censors itself
Ignored, threatened with the sack, attacked in print, American journalists who dissent from the war effort risk becoming hated outcasts, reports Scott Lucas
No fighting today: it's raining
Tim Lambon finds that the war in Afghanistan is not quite as the reporters portray it
The whole world in their hands
Social democrats must get their act together; the anti-globalisers have stolen a march on them
The right questions, but the wrong answers
Peter Hain and Dick Benschop on the anti-globalisation movement
Bring back the intellectuals
Once upon a time, special advisers didn't try to square the press: they were experts, often academics, who actually offered advice
Hopes of immortality
Blair's doing it, Kennedy's doing it, even the middle classes are doing it: sitting for portraits is fashionable once more, reports John-Paul Flintoff
In a land of political pygmies
Scotland's First Minister has the police on his tail. But he's still in charge. Why? Tom Brownreports
Essay
The New Statesman Essay - The Empire strikes back
Is a new, more cuddly version of imperialism the answer for "failed states" such as war-torn Afghanistan? Look closely at the historical record and you have to doubt it, argues Maria Misra
Culture
The great lost cause
For Hemingway and his friends, the Spanish civil war was the happiest time of their lives. But, as Raymond Carr writes, it was this conflict that darkened the horizon of the 20th century
Master of diversity
Arts profile - Paul Bonaventura talks to a prodigious writer who changed our way of seeing
Animal magic
Art - Ned Denny is spellbound by the visionary work of the most sophisticated Renaissance chronicler
Collector's fair
Opera - Michael White surveys the stall set out by Ireland's pre-eminent music festival
Film
Optical illusion
Film - Philip Kerr on why you don't need special effects when you've got Nicole Kidman
Television
The wittiest man on TV
Television - Andrew Billen thinks we should see even more of Jonathan Ross
Books
The best and worst of times. Founded 100 years ago, the TLS was considered the vanguard of impartial, serious and gentlemanly literary journalism. Karl Miller reflects on its enduring spirit
Critical Times: the history of the TLS Derwent May HarperCollins, 296pp, £35 ISBN 0007114494
Pilgrim's progress
Innocent in the House Andy McSmith Verso, 311pp, £13 ISBN 1859846432
Founding father
Kinnock: the biography Martin Westlake Little, Brown, 768pp, £25 ISBN 0316848719
The Pickwickian PM. Richard Gott is amused by an international pariah and provocateur, and by a lightweight historian with flair
Churchill's War: triumph and adversity David Irving Focal Point Publications, 1,051pp, £25 ISBN 1872197159 Churchill Roy Jenkins Macmillan, 1,002pp, £30
Dishonourable member
Image in the Water Douglas Hurd Little, Brown, 243pp, £16.99 ISBN 0316857726
Paperback reader
On Histories and Stories A S Byatt Vintage, 196pp, £7.99 ISBN 0099283832
Suffragette city
The Pankhursts Martin Pugh Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 608pp, £20 ISBN 0713994398
Conservative pessimism
Unfinest Hour: Britain and the destruction of Bosnia Brendan Simms Penguin, 462pp, £18.99 ISBN 0713994258
