26 November 2001
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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
Television
A taste for Trollope
Television - Andrew Billen finds that classic serials are what BBC1 does best
Books
The sound and the fury. The white working-class British male football fan has no defenders in our culture. John King on why the liberal left is wrong about the so-called hooligan abroad
Hooligan Wars
Edited by Mark Perryman Mainstream Publishing, 192pp, £9.99
ISBN 1840184213
Totally bigged up
Dead Famous
Ben Elton Bantam Press, 339pp, £16.99
ISBN 0593048040
The climate of treason. The true sin of the "Cambridge Five" was not betraying their country, but betraying their class. Richard Gott on a spy's life
Anthony Blunt: his lives
Miranda Carter Macmillan, 590pp, £20
ISBN 0333633504
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
