30 September 2002
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Cover story
The Reckoning
Labour Party Conference - Tony Blair and Gordon Brown have turned Britain into a gigantic hedge fund, betting both its public services and the long-term security of its people on the health of the global markets. They are heading for the most terrible fall, argues John Gray
Features
Blair, the pioneer of a new order
Labour Party Conference - The nation state is dying, argues Philip Bobbitt, author of an acclaimed book on how we are ruled. New Labour's regime exemplifies its successor, the market state
What Blur did next
Labour Party Conference - Alex James recalls how, after a call from Tony Blair's office, his band fell out of love with new Labour
Where's the free bubbly gone?
Labour Party Conference - Instead of holding swanky receptions in Blackpool this year, business leaders will stay at home. By Mike Craven
Bloggers of the left, unite!
The right dominates the latest web medium, allowing it to vent spleen and not be challenged
How America can help the left
Europeans see US power as crude brawn brushing aside subtle knowledge. Yet if we play our cards cleverly, we can all benefit from US supremacy, argues John Lloyd
What they said in cabinet: the true story
What they said in the cabinet
How Cheney swung an election
Anti-war feeling and, most of all, help from the US vice-president restored the German chancellor to office
Sorry, but we don't want to live in flats
Ken Livingstone's vision for London is yet another example of how planners resist giving people the kind of housing they really want
Interview
NS Interview - David Triesman
Labour Party Conference - He wants transparency and debate, and welcomes the word "socialism". Can this be the Labour Party general secretary? David Triesman is interviewed
NS Interview - Tessa Jowell
The minister who is giving the green light to Wembley Stadium thinks Murdoch is OK, but the BBC needs to tread carefully. Tessa Jowell is interviewed
Regulars
Darcus Howe on how a shotgun ended a boy's dreams
My son is off to college, but his friend "Rattie" won't go, now or ever
Suzanne Moore on A-level twiddles and tweaks
The latest A-level scandal sends out a message: the result of obsessive testing, league tables and over-examining is cheating, fiddling and tweaking at all levels
Mark Thomas proposes a march in favour of bribery
In Lesotho, a multinational has been found guilty of paying bribes. If it loses the appeal, expect a big march, with Prince Charles saying bribery is a tradition in the "companyside"
Cristina Odone says Catholics won't grass on priests
Why Catholics would not grass on paedophile priests
Competition
Win vouchers to spend at any Tesco store
Culture
The porn controller
Senator Jesse Helms, the retiring dinosaur of US racism and misogyny, hates modern art. But his followers storm on, and they are a far greater danger. By Scott Lucas
Enigma of arrival
Art - Ned Denny on an exhibition that bores viewers out of the gallery and into open spaces
Games without frontiers
Music - Jason Cowley on the return of pop's great experimentalist
Theatre
The man from uncle
Theatre - Sheridan Morley finds that two Chekhov productions are just what the doctor ordered
Film
It's all in the detail
Film - Philip Kerr on a portrait of the Depression that is as persuasive as it is beautiful
Television
Girls, booze, drugs and parties
Television - Andrew Billen enjoys a documentary about the heyday of light entertainment
The Fan
The fan - Hunter Davies gets into the sponsors' suite
The day I rubbed shoulders with a real live lord in the sponsors' lounge
Books
The road as metaphor of itself. Iain Sinclair may be a fellow-traveller of cranks and eccentrics, but he is also one of our most original and talented writers. Will Self celebrates a self-styled psychogeographer
London Orbital: a walk around the M25 Iain Sinclair Granta Books, 482pp, £25 ISBN 1862075476
Mauve manoeuvres. Marcelle d'Argy Smith on "a hand in the bush" and other sexual treats
The Joy of Sex Dr Alex Comfort Mitchell Beazley, 240pp, £17.99 ISBN 1840005564
The diarist as novelist
Samuel Pepys: the unequalled self Claire Tomalin Viking, 499pp, £20 ISBN 0670885681
Signature style
The Autograph Man Zadie Smith Hamish Hamilton, 400pp, £16.99 ISBN 0241139988
We are stardust
Science: a history (1543-2001) John Gribbin Allen Lane, 650pp, £25 ISBN 0713995033
Brothers at war
Jack and Bobby Leo McKinstry HarperCollins, 492pp, £18.99 ISBN 0007118767
Print the legend
And Why Not? (As I Never Did Say): memoirs of a film lover Barry Norman Simon & Schuster, 349pp, £16.99 ISBN 0743230965
Insider gossip
Panorama Richard Lindley Politico's, 404pp, £18.99 ISBN 1902301803
Slave to passion
Pushkin: a biography T J Binyon HarperCollins, 731pp, £30 ISBN 0002150840
