14 October 2002
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Cover story
Why George no longer loves Tony
John Kampfner, our political editor, reveals that Iraq has brought the UK and US leaders perilously close to a bust-up and that America's hawks now think they can't do business with Britain's dove
Features
Different colour, same sort of tyranny
Garfield Todd and his daughter, Judith, once fought Ian Smith's regime of white supremacy. Nicholas Greenslade finds them in renewed battle in Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe
Is that man a sadomasochist?
Simon Murphy argues that Gordon Brown's reluctance to join the euro damages his prime ministerial prospects
NS Special Report - Comprehensives: a minute to midnight
Do you remember voting for the return of selection at 11? Well, it's coming all the same. Francis Beckett tracks the slow decline of one of Labour's great ideals
The personal holocaust of a Sicilian fisherman
The sea around the southern tip of Italy is full of the skeletons of asylum-seekers. Hilary Clarke reports
How to walk like a president
Can the rest of us acquire the Clinton charisma that took Blackpool by storm? John-Paul Flintoff finds out
Regulars
Cristina Odone asks why illicit affairs go unnoticed
Why illicit affairs can take place under our noses without our realising it
Darcus Howe sees the return of stop-and-search
Stop and search is returning - and black people are supposed to have agreed to it
Mark Thomas wants Saddam to sue Bill Clinton
Saddam should sue Bill Clinton for libel. Evil dictators may have difficulty proving their reputations have been harmed, but at least Clinton's lies about Iraq would be exposed
Competition
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Culture
The rite of return
Pushkin's poetry, Tolstoy's novels, Stravinsky's music - Russia's golden age gave the people the spirit to endure the darkest moments of their history. Orlando Figes on the triumph of culture over politics
Swinging Scousers
Liverpool 1 - Holly Johnson returns to his home city in search of Art and isn't disappointed
Moores the pity
Liverpool 2 - Ned Denny finds that, once again, the smart-arses and not the painters get all the prizes
Hidden shallows
Music - Peter Conrad on recordings of an old poseur that reveal more than he might have liked
Film
Boys will be boys
Film - Philip Kerr on why an acclaimed portrait of Iranian life is no more radical than a home movie
Theatre
Stage lites
Theatre - Sheridan Morley is left bemused by a play that short-changes those who expect theatre to offer more than ideas
Television
Are lesbians really hilarious?
Television - Andrew Billen wonders if it would have been an idea to cut down on the sex scenes
The Fan
The fan - Hunter Davies finds there are too many balls in the air
I need discipline, speed on the button, hard work to watch all these games
Books
There's no escaping the Warwickshire Lad. There's the T-shirt, the beer, the cigar - Shakespeare is everywhere. Terence Hawkes on the enduring cult of the Superbard
Shakespeare For All Time Stanley Wells Macmillan, 442pp, £30 ISBN 0333904990
Staring at the sun
The Book of Illusions Paul Auster Faber and Faber, 322pp, £16.99 ISBN 0571212131
Son of a preacher
A Brand From the Burning: the life of John Wesley Roy Hattersley Little, Brown, 451pp, £20 ISBN 0316860204
In durance vile. Richard Gott on stories of Britons in distress overseas
Captives: Britain, empire and the world 1600-1850 Linda Colley Jonathan Cape, 438pp, £20 ISBN 0224059254
A turnip writes
Public Property Andrew Motion Faber and Faber, 102pp, £12.99 ISBN 0571215343
Macro to micro. Frank Furedi on the left-liberal surrender to "PC"
The Politics of the Forked Tongue: authoritarian liberalism Aidan Rankin New European Publications, 161pp, £13.95 ISBN 1872410162
Novel of the week
The Crimson Petal and the White Michel Faber Canongate, 833pp, £17.99 ISBN 1841953237
