14 July 2003
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Features
The truth about political journalists
The charge against the BBC's Andrew Gilligan is that he based a story on a single source. Yet reporters at Westminster have always relied on single sources for the best stories
''Labour, Tory? It's hard to say, innit?''
Is the country really fed up with Tony Blair? And if so, can people swallow Gordon Brown instead? Decca Aitkenhead penetrated deepest Essex in search of answers
An Africa that Bush won't see
In Nairobi's slums, you walk in waist-high puddles. But you won't find a drop to drink. By Sebastian Skeaping
12 Great thinkers of our time
James Lovelock, E O wilson, Martha Nussbaum, Li Hongzhi, Peter Singer, Noam Chomsky, Maulana Sayyid Abul-Ala Maududi, Jacques Derrida, Kate Millet, Jean Baudrillard, Antonio Negri and John Maynard Smith. Edited
Great Thinkers - James Lovelock
Mary Midgley on James Lovelock
Great thinkers of our time - E O Wilson
John Gray on E O Wilson
Great thinkers of our time - Martha Nussbaum
Richard Reeves on Martha Nussbaum
Great thinkers of our time - Peter Singer
Nicholas Fearn on Peter Singer
Great thinkers of our time - Maulana Sayyid Abul-Ala Maududi
Ziauddin Sardar on Maulana Sayyid Abul-Ala Maududi
Great thinkers of our time - Jacques Derrida
Terry Eagletonon Jacques Derrida
Great thinkers of our time - Kate Millett
Andrea Dworkin on Kate Milett
Great thinkers of our time - Jean Baudrillard
Andrew Hussey on Jean Baudrillard
Great thinkers of our time - Antonio Negri
Katharine Ainger on Antonio Negri
Great thinkers of our time - John Maynard Smith
Marek Kohn on John Maynard-Smith
Regulars
Politics
Politics - John Kampfner on a Third Way think-in (so 1990s!)
As he meets other Third Way leaders (but don't call them that, it's so 1990s), Blair will struggle to convince them that, having done war, he can also do peace
Diary
Diary - Kevin Marsh
At the Today studio, faxes pour in from Mr Hoon and Mr Bradshaw. Mr Bradshaw's are very long, and nothing to do with fish; Mr Hoon's are mostly shorter and about "process"
Mark Thomas reveals the dangers on an oil pipline
If a British company proposed to upgrade and relocate Hell to Ethiopia, new Labour ministers would talk of creating jobs and having a constructive dialogue with Satan
Darcus Howe glimpses a netherworld
A tragic accident on a railway gives us a glimpse of a netherworld
Competition
Win vouchers to spend at any Tesco store
Arts & Culture
Ever-increasing circles
In the 1960s, Bridget Riley revolutionised our way of seeing. A retrospective of her work, far from being an act of closure, shows she is as inventive as ever
Teenage exile
Design - Toby Litt misses the stench of adolescent bedrooms in an exhibition of comic art
Building bridges
Art - William Cook on the rise and fall of an important but neglected German painter
Film
Money talks
Film - Philip Kerr on why greedy distributors mean the movie business doesn't add up
Theatre
Rewriting old scores
Theatre - Sheridan Morley finds two classic musicals that do not belong on the London stage
Television
A rough search for forgiveness
Television - Andrew Billen on Brian Sewell's sexually charged series about God and art
Drink
Drink - Victoria Moore prefers an old-fashioned corkscrew
When it comes to corkscrews, nothing beats the old-fashioned double-lever
Books
Beyond belief. Al-Qaeda's apocalyptic brand of religion runs counter to the secular myths of the west. As a result, we fail to understand its essential modernity, argues John Gray
Al-Qaeda: casting a shadow of terror
Jason Burke I B Tauris, 304pp, £18.95
ISBN 1850433968
High-flying typist
Amy Johnson: queen of the air
Midge Gillies Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 384pp, £20
ISBN 0297829823
The great survivor
The Fun Factory: a life in the BBC
Will Wyatt Aurum Press, 372pp, £20
ISBN 1854109154
Melancholy undercurrents
Paradise of Cities: Venice and its 19th-century visitors
John Julius Norwich Viking, 283pp, £20
ISBN 067089401X
A howl of disapproval
War
Harold Pinter Faber & Faber, 24pp, £5
ISBN 0571221319
Novel of the week
Nowhere Man
Aleksandar Hemon Picador, 256pp, £15.99
ISBN 0330393499
