03 November 2003
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Cover story
Will we survive the winter?
Water supplies are drying up, the National Grid can't cope, the sewers are collapsing and the transport system is in chaos. If you believe everything we are told, some of us may not make it through to the spring. David Cox investigates
Features
Tory leadership special - Doomed from the start
Unlike Labour, the Tories democratised their party before they modernised it. So MPs were saddled with a leader they never wanted. By John Kampfner, political editor
Work experience: for whose benefit?
Interns are the new apprentices, paying for an employment opportunity. The system will wipe out the gains of expanding higher education, argue Alice O'Keeffe and Katharine Hibbert
British Muslims are the new Irish
Government cash helped the first wave of immigrants from Ireland to become good British Catholics. Now Islam should get the same support. By Jack O'Sullivan
Baghdad, city of prisons
President Bush claims to have brought freedom to Iraq, but the capital's concrete barriers would not have looked out of place in Colditz. Lindsey Hilsum reports from a fortress
The president wins the midfield battle
Watch out Washington! Lula, Brazil's new leader, bent on social and economic reform in defiance of the IMF, has already won a contest that matters to millions
Why people power is good for business
The old world of workers and bosses has gone; we all own bits of the big companies now, through pension and investment funds. But Labour hasn't grasped what this means
Essay
NS Essay - Are poor countries really getting richer?
Are developing countries really doing better, as orthodox economists say? No, argues Partha Dasgupta. Rises in GNP are at the expense of the average person's assets
Regulars
Mark Thomas plans a punishing protest against Bush
A new crop of fly-posters and stickers has started to appear on bus shelters and in public toilets, some urging the kind of non-violent direct action Gandhi would not approve of
Darcus Howe insists that police racism starts at the top
The young officers trapped by the BBC are soft targets; police racism starts at the top
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Culture
The hundred years of Waugh
As we celebrate his centenary, Evelyn Waugh is still synonymous with snobbery. He was no snob, but his popularity continues to rest on his readers' admiration for the world he mocked, argues Ann Pasternak Slater
Seen but not heard
Exhibition - Kathryn Hughes on how a few made it from below stairs to the walls of an art gallery
A long shadow
Music - Stephanie Merritt on a posthumous album to move the most hardened old rebel
Past martyrs
Art - Richard Cork searches for redemption in Bill Viola's harrowing images of pain
Film
Odds-on favourite
Film - Philip Kerr applauds a sports thriller that harks back to more innocent times
Television
Off pitch
Television - Andrew Billen on a drama about footballers that scores too many cliches
The Fan
The fan - Hunter Davies spots the first gloves of the winter
On Saturday, at precisely 12.30, I spotted the first gloves of the winter, writes Hunter Davis
Books
Is therapy making us sick? Is the new army of life coaches and gurus perpetuating a culture of victimhood and unhealthy dependency? Darian Leader on why the pervasiveness of self-help means we need psychotherapists more than ever
Therapy Culture: cultivating vulnerability in an uncertain age Frank Furedi Routledge, 245pp, £16.99 ISBN 041532159X
Although celebrity came to her only with age, Penelope Fitzgerald wrote beautifully about childhood - especially her own. Hilary Mantel remembers a greatly missed novelist and critic
A House of Air: selected writings Penelope Fitzgerald Flamingo, 552pp, £20 ISBN 0007136420
Stage fright
National Service: diary of a decade Richard Eyre Bloomsbury, 438pp, £18.99 ISBN 0747565899
Shooting stars
Helmut Newton: autobiography Duckworth, 289pp, £18 ISBN 0715632604
Good Bligh
The Bounty: the true story of the mutiny on the Bounty Caroline Alexander HarperCollins, 491pp, £20 ISBN 0002572214
The world's greatest kisser
Dark Lover: the life and death of Rudolph Valentino Emily W Leider Faber & Faber, 498pp, £20 ISBN 0571218180
Fiction - Out of his mind
Her Name was Lola Russell Hoban Bloomsbury, 207pp, £15.99 ISBN 0747570248
