11 November 2002

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Cover story

Whatever happened to No Logo?

Until recently, the anti-globalisation movement looked set to become the defining new element in politics. Now, only opposition to war keeps it alive. By Johann Hari

Features

Under Ataturk's portrait

Mihir Bose finds more headscarves and less raki as Turkey's secular state faces creeping Islamisation

Bruised, battered and out of power

The European left is in retreat. It stole the right's economic clothes; now the right threatens to steal the left's social clothes, by supporting the welfare state. John Lloyd reports

The great socialist shame

Left-wing thinkers backed policies that tore Aborigine girls from their mothers

The flirts in the park

The morals police are ready with whips. But Iranian lovers know how to stay out of trouble

Regulars

Politics - John Kampfner on Kenneth Clarke, the Tories’ hope

Ken Clarke is grinning broadly, knowing that he is in a perfect position to replace IDS

Cristina Odone pities children at the law's mercy

Parenthood is no longer a matter of blood; it has to be defined by state regulation

Darcus Howe laments a BBC blunder

"Traitor", they called me. But Viv Richards backed what I wrote about the Caribbean

Mark Thomas defends David Shayler

David Shayler is being pilloried because he exposed a secret service plot to fund al-Qaeda. Surely, MI6 and those who oversee it should be in the dock, not him

Competition

Win vouchers to spend at any Tesco store

Culture

Frocking trivial

Is contemporary art seduced by fashion? Or are both simply the victims of an obsession with celebrity? Hadley Freeman on the latest stitch-up

Earthly pleasures

Art - Ned Denny looks over the shoulders of Gainsborough's dandies to discover a sombre Arcadia

Feminine rock

Music - Richard Cook on the wilful peculiarities of one of the strong women of pop

Jeffrey Archer sells all

Auctions - Peter Watson on how themed sales might save the art market from crashing

Keeping it in the family

Film - Philip Kerr on how Hollywood operates like a 15th-century Italian state

Trouble on the home front

Theatre - Sheridan Morley on two very different interpretations of the domestic landscape

Peering into the abyss

Television - Andrew Billen on why we should be sorry to lose a decrepit institution

The fan - Hunter Davies asks why one game needs three rulers

Why do they need so many different bodies to run one simple little game? Asks Hunter Davies

Books

The interview as humiliation. Jeremy Paxman is the champion of an insidious form of journalism. John Lloyd on why his dispute with John Birt is symptomatic of a wider crisis in our political culture

The Harder Path: the autobiography John Birt Time Warner Books, 532pp, £20 ISBN 0316860190 The Political Animal: an anatomy Jeremy Paxman Michael Joseph, 320pp, £20

"Wonderful country France . . . pity about the French." From the "Queen of the world" to the "corpse of an old whore" - Andrew Hussey on changing views of Paris

Seven Ages of Paris: portrait of a city Alistair Horne Macmillan, 520pp, £25 ISBN 0333725778

Penetrating sanity

Slipstream: a memoir Elizabeth Jane Howard Macmillan, 493pp, £20 ISBN 0333903498

Novel of the week

July, July Tim O'Brien Flamingo, 339pp, £17.99 ISBN 0007153147

Winner takes all

Open World: the truth about globalisation Philippe Legrain Abacus, 367pp, £12.99 ISBN 034911644X

A restless ghost

Marx for Our Times: adventures and misadventures of a critique Daniel Bensaid, translated by Gregory Elliott Verso, 409pp, £20 ISBN 1859847129 Why Read Marx Today? Jonathan Wolff Oxford University Press, 144pp, £11.99

In defence of ordinary people

The Cheating Classes: how Britain's elite abuse their power Sue Cameron Simon & Schuster, 259pp, £17.99 ISBN 068485130X

Rather turnips than nothing

Commentary - Why shouldn't an atheist write seriously about religion?

Bee Wilson reads the Three Musketeers for chocolate

You've heard of The Three Musketeers. But what of the six pages on cocoa? Asks Bee Wilson

Observations

How Spain can lead the world

Observations on Gibraltar

Can pay, but why should we?

Observations on the licence fee

A trawl that nets the innocent

Observations on miscarriages of justice

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Time to rethink

Time to rethink, not reassure

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?

Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling, the Miliband dilemma and what the party must do next
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