02 December 2002
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Cover story
Alone they stand, against a dominant PM
Tony Blair always believed in his heart that the unions were dangerous. Now he knows it, and he will make them suffer. John Kampfner reports
Features
The last democrats
Union leaders such as Andy Gilchrist can claim stronger mandates for their actions than ministers can. So who's accusing whom of political motivation?
Don't quack like your silly old dad. Modernise!
It's the word of the moment, on the lips of every minister and pundit. But what does it really mean?
National parks, state schools and hospitals, laws against pollution: all could be under threat from the World Trade Organisation
Nick Cohen reveals the astonishing details of how a little-noticed international agreement could undermine the basis of the welfare state
Essay
NS Essay - 'Saddam, Arafat and the Saudis hate the Jews and want to see them destroyed'
. . . or so says the right-wing writer Andrew Sullivan. And he has a point. Does the western left really grasp the extent of anti-Semitism in the Middle East? But does the right grasp the role of Europeans in creating such hatred?
Regulars
John Pilger prefers the web to TV news
We like to think our broadcast news is impartial. But it is deeply and subtly biased and that is why young people turn off, and switch to the samizdat on the web
Paul Routledge spots the changing face of IDS
The new face of IDS, Blair's expensive travels, and an impertinent peep at Cherie
Cristina Odone won't vote for Greatest Italian
A competition to find the greatest Italian? Or greatest German? It wouldn't happen
Darcus Howe attends a stormy funeral
They gave my friend a state funeral, after he had suffered years of persecution
Competition
Win vouchers to spend at any Tesco store
Culture
Monumental mistakes
Heritage wonks have colonised the past for profit, replacing understanding with kitsch. Give us back our history, demands Tristram Hunt
The region of mystery
Art - Ned Denny on how the Aztecs shocked the mind into an awareness of divinity
Writers in prison
Asiye Guzel Zeybek
Film
A hit and miss affair
Film - Philip Kerr would like to see Jennifer Lopez in the ring with Lennox Lewis
Theatre
Madness and mayhem
Theatre - Sheridan Morley enjoys a new serving of Shakespeare but leaves a dinner party disappointed
Television
A tale of two costume dramas
Television - Andrew Billen awaits the arrival of the bigger themes in Deronda and Dr Zhivago
The Fan
The fan - Hunter Davies wants to be Professor of Football
If only I'd waited, my book The Glory Game would have got me a PhD, writes Hunter Davies
Books
Bursting the bubble
Science - Len Fisher reveals what scientists really get up to in the bath
Books of the year
Our critics choose their books of the year
Bookmarks - our occasional series when writers return to works of great personal or public moment
John Gray on Rex Warner's The Aerodrome
Bookmarks - Amanda Craig on Charles Dickens's Great Expectations
Great Expectations Charles Dickens ISBN 0140620168
Bookmarks - Mick Hume on Leon Trotsky's Their Morals and Ours
Their Morals and Ours Leon Trotsky ISBN 0873483197
Bookmarks - Andrew Hussey on Louis-Ferdinand Celine's Journey to the End of the Night
Journey to the End of the Night Louis-Ferdinand Celine ISBN 0714541397
