25 March 2002
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Cover story
Should we go to war against these children?
A compliant press is preparing the ground for an all-out attack on Iraq. It never mentions the victims: the young, the old and the vulnerable
Features
Now the good news for America
Suddenly, people want to bowl together again. Trust and community spirit are back. And, reports John Lloyd, it's all thanks to terrorism
The sad truth about child molesters
Johann Harimeets paedophiles at a sex offenders' treatment centre and reaches what, for liberals, will be a dispiriting conclusion
To them that hath . . .
Barbara Gunnell finds that charity has become a vehicle for the poor to give to the rich, and that the whole voluntary sector needs reform
A black actor winning an Oscar? Cut!
Hollywood is still racist and critics open their mouths at their peril
Slobo runs rings round his accusers
In his trial in The Hague, Milosevic, applying the old Marxist-Leninist view that politics is a trial of strength, plays brilliantly to world opinion
America's obsolete weapons
The Pentagon spends shocking amounts on outdated tanks and aircraft. Why? Because securing votes counts for more than military need. Paul Isaacs reports
Bhopal refuses to flip the page
After more than 17 years, thousands of Indians still suffer from the lethal gases that leaked from a US chemical plant. John Elliottreports
Essay
The New Statesman Essay - The decay of the free market
The IMF and the World Bank carry on as if nothing had changed, but it is already clear that we have entered a new era of state power
Culture
When Ann met Louis
Critics felt that the ingenu Theroux had gone too far, but, says his recent victim Ann Widdecombe, all's fair in fly-on-the-wall (except for bedroom shots)
Body parts
Drama - Jed Mercurio diagnoses the shortcomings of medical fiction
The great game
Mathematics - Simon Singh on "Nash's equilibrium", the brilliant legacy of an unstable mind
Balls and battles
Opera - Peter Conrad is supplied with moral courage at a flawless production of War and Peace
Television
Full of their selves
Television - Andrew Billen finds new reasons to distrust shrinks, pundits and PR men
Books
Murdering to dissect. For all the advances of science, we are no closer to understanding the essential mystery of the self. But perhaps the strange world of autism offers clues. By Edward Skidelsky
The Cradle of Thought: Exploring the Origins of Thinking Peter Hobson Macmillan, 296pp, £20 ISBN 0333766334
Slow puncture
My Lover's Lover Maggie O'Farrell Review, 322pp, £12.99 ISBN 0747271119
The theatre of outrage
A Season with Verona Tim Parks Secker & Warburg, 447pp, £16.99 ISBN 0436275953
The lone wolf
Denis Healey: A Life in Our Times Edward Pearce Little, Brown, 634pp, £30 ISBN 0316858943
Paperback reader
Drowning Ruth Christina Schwarz Headline, 276pp, £5.99 ISBN 0747264651
The skinhead
Mussolini R J B Bosworth Arnold, 584pp, £25 ISBN 0340731443
A great Englishman
Ernest Bevin: A Biography Alan Bullock Politico's, 850pp, £30 ISBN 1902301854
Grey romance
The Sex Life of My Aunt Mavis Cheek Faber and Faber, 282pp, £10.99 ISBN 0571205089
Novel of the week
The Feast of the Goat Mario Vargas Llosa Faber and Faber, 404pp, £16.99 ISBN 0571207715
