22 April 2002
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Cover story
Who really downed the twin towers?
Was 11 September actually the work of the CIA? Why is no plane visible on photos taken seconds before the Pentagon was hit? Johann Hari reports on the vogue for conspiracy theories
Features
And for my next trick . . .
Budget 2002 - The juggler has done it again. A bit more for the poor, a lot more for public services, but not much pain for the rich
At last, the silent people speak
Ken Livingstone has tried to ban it but, this year, St George's Day will be celebrated as never before. David Cox finds that the English have arisen
Where hell lay beyond a 25ft wall
Lindsey Hilsumreports from Jenin, and finds each side ready with its mythic version of events
A leader of unrivalled stature?
The more you go into Kissinger's record, the stronger the case for a prosecution. So why is he feted by the Prime Minister and by leaders of British industry?
Pass the cornflakes . . . and a law
If every proposal on the Today programme were adopted, income tax would soar to more than 100p in the pound, reveals Beth Egan
The Village is missing the Jersey girls
Jason Cowley finds that New York has only half recovered from the trauma of 11 September
The poppies that feed the farmers
Afghanistan's rulers are waging the wrong drug war
A BMW kills six, no questions asked
India has become ungovernable. But who cares? Good government might threaten the elite. John Elliott reports from Delhi
Essay
The New Statesman Essay - Who's revolting now?
Once, we all knew where we stood on people's uprisings. But as Venezuela shows, you can't trust them any more
Regulars
Blair and Brown may be accused of breaking their tax pledges. They don't have much of a defence
Budget 2002 - There's going to be a punch-up with the big companies and Middle England may be riled too by Robert Peston
Arts & Culture
Garage mechanics
The latest music on the block offers conspicuous consumption and gangster chic for a generation mugged by reality
Great Dane
Design - Matthew Dodd celebrates the centenary of the modernist Arne Jacobsen
Television
There may be Trouble ahead
Television - Andrew Billen on how Northern Ireland became compulsive viewing
Drink
Buena vista from the bar
Drink - Victoria Moore follows the rum-soaked tracks of Hemingway in Cuba
Books
The enigma of arrival. J M Coetzee's latest novel is as bleak as ever. But Pankaj Mishra finds his portrait of post-colonial disappointment and frustrated literary ambitions strangely compassionate, too
Youth
J M Coetzee Secker & Warburg, 180pp, £14.99
ISBN 0436205823
Silent vision
Old Man Goya
Julia Blackburn Jonathan Cape, 260pp, £16.99
ISBN 0224062794
Consuming passions
Auto Mobile: How the Car Changed Life
Ruth Brandon Macmillan, 468pp, £20
ISBN 0333766660
The death of ideas. The transformation of the intellectual from dangerous outsider to safe expert is a sign of our sceptical age, argues Kenan Malik
Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline
Richard A Posner Harvard University Press, 408pp, £20.50
ISBN 067400633X
Republican endgame
The People's Emperor: Democracy and the Japanese Monarchy, 1945-1995
Kenneth J Ruoff Harvard University Press, 358pp, £30.95
ISBN 0674008405
Novel of the week
Who's Sorry Now?
Howard Jacobson Cape, 326pp, £16.99
ISBN 0224062867
Paperback reader
The Shadow of the Sun: my African life
Ryszard Kapuscinski Penguin, 325pp, £7.99
ISBN 0140292624
Our darkest knight
St George: Patron Saint of England
Christopher Stace Triangle, 99pp, £7.99
ISBN 0281054150
Tarnished dreams
The Resurrectionists
Michael Collins Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 360pp, £12.99
ISBN 1861591950
