26 November 2001

From the Editor…

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Cover story

The New Statesman Special Report - The SAS story they want to suppress

Was the Bravo Two Zero mission in Iraq a shambles? An ex-soldier says it was, but Whitehall is determined to gag him, reports Stephen Davis

Features

Bush dumps American values

The US was justly proud of its liberties but, since 11 September, rights such as trial by jury have been eroded to an astonishing degree

The truths they never tell us

Behind the jargon about failed states and humanitarian interventions lie thousands of dead. John Pilger on how liberals tolerate the sufferings of innocents

The Northern Alliance behaves

The worst fears about Kabul's new masters have proved unfounded (so far)

A tale of 70 factions and 400 suits

Where is the opposition in Iraq? Pursuing its own vicious quarrels

11 September? A Zionist plot!

In Greece, they burn US flags and jeer the minute's silence for New York's terror victims. Helena Smith on the most anti-American country in Europe

Fit to rule the land of Braveheart?

As Edinburgh is hit by constant scandal, Allan Massie blames endemic cronyism, Italian-style, for the ills of Scotland's governing class

They wasted £57m, but didn't learn

Francis Beckett on how ministers plan to repeat the errors of their pet project for schools

In search of a forgotten dream

In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville travelled through America, and hailed its unique spirit of equality. David Cohen retraced his journey to find a nation with a very different mood

Interview

The New Statesman Interview - John Reid

The Ulster Secretary seeks a new kind of Britishness and agrees working-class loyalists feel rejected by their country. John Reid interviewed

Arts & Culture

Apocalypse . . . again

The Vietnam war has possessed the imaginations of film-makers for a quarter of a century. But one hellish vision of the conflict still dominates the canon

Movie wars

Film Criticism - Neil Berry on America's most eloquent opponent of Hollywood's manipulative agenda

Tate that

Art - Stop moaning, says Ned Denny, and take notice of work that transforms the ordinary

Ghost trane

Music - Richard Cook on the spiritual father of jazz improvisation

Monkey business

Theatre - Colin Teevan on how to get an ancient myth out of a stone egg

Night waves

Radio - Louis Barfe confesses to sleeping around with nocturnal DJs

A taste for Trollope

Television - Andrew Billen finds that classic serials are what BBC1 does best

Less is more

Wine - Roger Scruton finds himself doing it by halves

Books

Totally bigged up

Dead Famous
Ben Elton Bantam Press, 339pp, £16.99
ISBN 0593048040

Novel of the week

The Smoke Jumper
Nicholas Evans Bantam, 448pp, £16.99
ISBN 0593045254

Easy rider

McQueen: the biography
Christopher Sandford HarperCollins, 497pp, £16.99
ISBN 0002571951

I married a communist

How I Came Into My Inheritance and Other True Stories
Dorothy Gallagher Picador, 208pp, £12.99
ISBN 0330488503

The first moderniser

Tony Benn: a political life
David Powell Continuum, 256pp, £16.99
ISBN 0826456995

Paperback reader

England: an elegy
Roger Scruton Pimlico, 270pp, £8.99
ISBN 0712668055

Tiananmen Square

20 years on

Desperately seeking democracy

Nina Power

Newspeak's legacy

Bamboozle, baffle and blindside

Television

Simon Schama

Simplistic Simon says: “Look at me, everyone!”

Theatre

Liberal guilt

Watch out for the bleeding-heart liberal

Vernon Bogdanor

Worse than Profumo

End of the party

Nicky Wire

The way I see it

Nicky Wire: The way I see it

Vote!

Will China rule the world?

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