28 January 2002
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Cover story
Time to bite back?
Other countries got something in return for backing Bush. The UK just carries on as America's poodle
Features
I know what Camp X-Ray feels like
Charles Glass on how his fellow Americans treat prisoners worse than Hezbollah treated him
Bush and Rumsfeld brazen it out
Andrew Stephenon how the combined forces of Robin Cook, Jack Straw, the Mirror and the Bishop of Durham failed to make Washington tremble
I won't leave my books to Britain
Theodore Dalrympleis outraged to find literary treasures abandoned in Oxfam shops
Comrades are on the march again
Even Honda, union-free for 16 years, has been forced to recognise workers' rights. John Kellyon a union revival
Coming soon, the next rural fiasco
After botching the foot-and-mouth outbreak, the government promised to make amends. But now it is botching the follow-up, argues David Cox
The new injustices
Richard Webster reports that, as Stephen Downing is set free, hundreds more innocent people - this time, ex-workers in children's homes - face prison
The New Statesman Special Report - At war with refugees
Few asylum-seekers actually reach Australia's shores, and if they do, their treatment beggars belief
Where the elite preens itself
The World Economic Forum or Davos (actually it's held in New York this year) brings together the world's wealthiest and most powerful people. But don't expect any insights
Students who are always left out
Do not abolish loans; make them available to more young people
Interview
The New Statesman Interview - Jimmy McGovern
The working-class TV dramatist says he realised the hard left "didn't care about us or our class; they hated us". Jimmy McGovern interviewed
Culture
Up close and personal
Isn't an exhibition of intimacy a contradiction in terms? Helen Laville discovers that the public consumption of private matter is strangely revealing
Beautiful strangers
Art - Morgan Falconer hooks up with the artist who has documented the prostitutes of Dubi
Pop princess
Music - William Cook inspects Diana's CD collection and discovers she was a pleb at heart
Theatre
Golden oldie
Theatre - Katherine Duncan-Jones on a production of The Alchemist that has the Midas touch
Television
Unseemly entertainment
Television - Andrew Billen sizes up a chilling drama of one moment in Nazi history
Books
The lost magic of Manchester. The Guardian has always prided itself on good writing, but the paper of today is a shadow of its former self. Richard Gott on the decline of a great British institution
The Bedside Years: The best writing from the Guardian, 1951-2000 Edited by Matthew Engel; free with The Guardian Year 2001 edited by Ian Katz Atlantic Books, 268pp, £14.99 ISBN 1903809223
Deja lu
Fame Fatale Wendy Holden Headline, 378pp, £10 ISBN 0747272514
Soul music. Edward Skidelsky enjoys a book that was a runaway bestseller in France
A Short Treatise on the Great Virtues: The Uses of Philosophy in Everyday Life Andre Comte-Sponville, translated by Catherine Temerson William Heinemann, 352pp, £15.99 ISBN 0434009687
A moral maze
Flights of Love Bernhard Schlink, translated by John E Woods Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 308pp, £12.99 ISBN 0297829033
Worldly innocence. Jan Morris celebrates the life and work of Penelope Fitzgerald, whose first book has just been reissued
The Knox Brothers Penelope Fitzgerald Flamingo, 288pp, £7.99 ISBN 0007118309
Beautiful game
Back Home: England and the 1970 World Cup Jeff Dawson Orion, 331pp, £16.99 ISBN 0575071583
Novel of the week
The Men from the boys Philip Collins HarperCollins, 358pp, £14.99 ISBN 0007126174
