17 June 2002
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Cover story
The new Ireland kicks ass
The English now agonise about their identity, while the Irish, from Ryanair to the World Cup team, are supremely confident
Features
How to beat the adman at his own game
Call up GWBush.com or www.gatt.com, and what you actually get is an activists' website. Johann Hari on how the anti-globalisers are becoming more and more ingenious
Gap or Crap?
A high street brand under pressure
The hand of history beckons
One day next winter, the great moment will come: Gordon Brown will give the Treasury's verdict on the euro. What happens then? John Kampfner, NS political editor, reports
Tony Blair's surprising ally
Has the Third Way at last found a soulmate across the Channel? David Lawday reports from Paris
Essay
NS Essay - The anti-imperialism of fools
Western leftists find themselves in strange company when it comes to the Middle East. Are they really happy to line up with neo-Nazis and Islamic fundamentalists? By Mick Hume
Regulars
Cristina Odone - discovers the passionate Englishman
Suddenly, we have a new-style Englishman, one who is passionate and hot-blooded reports Cristina Odone
Darcus Howe wants Caribbean recruits in the Met
I find it hilarious that black people oppose recruiting police from the Caribbean
John Pilger takes on Martin Amis
Martin Amis represents a problem: that some of the most acclaimed and privileged writers in the English language fail to engage with the most urgent issues of our time
Competition
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Culture
The future lasts a long time
When the French philosopher Louis Althusser murdered his wife, his theories were fatally wounded as well. Playwright Steve Waters explains why he has made a drama out of this crisis
A bloody pain
Art - Zoe Williams on a new body of work that explores the agonies of creativity
Single life
Music - Richard Cook says the charts are no longer required listening
Theatre
Roman tragedy
Theatre - Katherine Duncan-Jones on a classical tale with touches of Tarantino
Television
In the midst of death, we are in life
Television - Andrew Billen on a new American import that has all the makings of a classic
The Fan
The Fan - Hunter Davies risks deep vein thrombosis
I feared deep vein thrombosis during those first two weeks, sitting slumped in my chair for up to six hours a day. It's been like flying to the Caribbean every day for a fortnight
Books
The human question-mark. "Tell me what you need, and I'll supply you with the right Nietzsche quotation," a German satirist once quipped. Today, Nietzsche continues to be misread and misappropriated. Edward Skidelsky on the life and work of a thinker who, more than any other, succeeded in defining our disturbed modernity
Nietzsche: a philosophical biography Rudiger Safranski. Translated by Shelley Frisch Granta Books, 412pp, £25 ISBN 1862075069 Zarathustra's Secret: the interior life of Friedrich Nietzsche Joachim Kohler. Translated by Ronald Taylor Yale University Press, 336pp, £19.95
Victory or death
Bismarck David J Bercuson and Holger H Herwig Hutchinson, 385pp, £18.99 ISBN 0091795168
Fat and posh
Rosamond Lehmann Selina Hastings Chatto & Windus, 476pp, £25 ISBN 0701165421
Junk bonds. Richard Cook on the dismal life and mysterious death of a jazz icon
Deep in a Dream: the long night of Chet Baker James Gavin Chatto & Windus, 430pp, £20 ISBN 070116381X
Incomparable ruin
The Parthenon Mary Beard Profile Books, 209pp, £15 ISBN 186197292X
Novel of the week
Gaveston Stephanie Merritt Faber and Faber, 386pp, £10.99 ISBN 0571210554
