10 November 2003
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Cover story
Profits won't feed the world
We will all have enough to eat if we stick to the good, old-fashioned craft of farming. We don't need advanced science, still less the big corporations, argues Colin Tudge
Features
Mired in the Holyrood bog
To the delight of the doomsayers, the Scottish Parliament building is claiming a new scalp
A welcome difference in the Valleys
The "brilliance of Blairism", according to one minister, lies not in dramatic change but in small improvements in people's daily lives. John Kampfner went out to test the theory
Teenage sex: don't scoff at abstinence
We pride ourselves on our openness, but we aren't open about the dangers of early sexual experience: diseases that even condoms don't prevent. Alice O'Keeffe reports
The rise of the cyber-coolies
Call a helpline these days and you may well speak to someone in India doing a job "outsourced" from the UK. Praful Bidwai reports from Delhi on a boom industry with serious downsides
Essay
NS Essay - Michael Howard may turn out to be the Tory leader who lays Thatcher's ghost
It is an ugly prospect, but a strong state, old Labour on public services and right-wing on immigrants, could be the central vision of a new Conservatism
Regulars
John Pilger laments the silence of the writers
For the great writers of the 20th century, art could not be separated from politics. Today, there is a disturbing silence on the dark matters that should command our attention
Darcus Howe explores dark dungeons
To read the tabloids, you'd think black boys were killing each other by the score
Competition
Win vouchers to spend at any Tesco store
Culture
The battle for Venus
Art 1 - In 1906, the king intervened to save a Velazquez masterpiece for the nation. If only Buckingham Palace, or indeed Downing Street, would now do the same for Raphael's Madonna of the Pinks. By the director of the National Gallery, Charles Saumarez Smith
The shock of the old
Art 2 - Rrichard Cork welcomes a return to provocative form for the Turner Prize
Bronte's Eyres
Art 3 - Polly Teale reflects on the literary inheritance she shares with the artist Paula Rego
Film
Band of brothers
Film - Philip Kerr on the re-release of the great war movie that made him a pacifist
Television
Top medal
Television - Andrew Billen is surprised at how smoothly Clarkson swapped cars for tanks
The Fan
The fan - Hunter Davies hears the latest songs from the fans
The crowd was singing: "Missed my drug test and I wanna go home"
Books
The fatal legacy. Most books and television programmes about Hitler reflect a taste for pornography, not a thirst for knowledge. What we really need is a history written with an appreciation of today's Germany rather than a jaundiced recollection of its past, argues Richard Gott
The Coming of the Third Reich Richard J Evans Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 622pp, £25 ISBN 071399648X
For better or worse
Prime Minister Portillo and other things that never happened Edited by Duncan Brack and Iain Dale Politico's, 384pp, £16.99
Property rules
Reform!: the fight for the 1832 Reform Act Edward Pearce Jonathan Cape, 343pp, £20 ISBN 0224061992
A dream place
At Home in Australia Peter Conrad Thames & Hudson, 256pp, £24.95 ISBN 0500511411
Down to earth
Backroom Boys: the secret return of the British boffin Francis Spufford Faber & Faber, 250pp, £14.99 ISBN 0304359270
Northern lights
Capital of the Mind: how Edinburgh changed the world James Buchan John Murray, 436pp, £20 ISBN 0719554462
A golden life
The Heat of the Kitchen Bernard Donoughue Politico's, 392pp, £25 ISBN 1842750518
The great shame
Unfinished Business: South Africa, apartheid and truth Terry Bell, with Dumisa Buhle Ntsebeza Verso, 352pp, £19 ISBN 1859845452
