26 July 2004

From the Editor…

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Features

The PM's greatest triumph

Lords Hutton and Butler have given him the final imprimatur of the Whitehall establishment. Even Blair's critics now expect him to continue into a third term. John Kampfner reports

Posterity's verdicts

A new force in British politics

Most voters don't care about foreign policy. Muslims do, and the results could be dramatic

The new puritans

From No 10 to the Daily Mail, a Cromwellian vanguard wants to purge our excesses

Regulars

Bite the bullet on council tax

Darcus Howe wants to rescue, not tag, the young

Spare me law-and-order measures. We must rescue young people, not tag them

Competition

Win vouchers to spend at any Tesco store

Culture

The decisive moment

An open-air exhibition of photographs on London's South Bank is attracting more than 2,000 visitors a day, from tourists to City suits. For Tom Stoddart, the man whose work they are flocking to see, it is testimony to the abiding power of the still image

Into the deep

Art - Richard Cork discovers that Manet was obsessed with more than urban alienation and erotic encounters

Fun fair

Village fetes - Wayne Hemingway, designer, is looking forward to getting his fix of fancy dress and trestle tables at the V&A

Michael Portillo - Thrill of the chase

Theatre - A worldly, lusty satire of base motives and selfishness. By Michael Portillo House of Desires Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon

Mark Kermode - Brief encounters

Film - A romantic gem, a no-strings affair and a true crime. By Mark Kermode Before Sunset (15) Thunderbirds (PG) The Manson Family (18)

Andrew Billen - No laughing matter

Television - Good new comedy is hard to find in the US

Books

Inside track

A Prison Diary Volume III: heaven Jeffrey Archer Macmillan, 478pp, £18.99 ISBN 1405032626

What a carve-up

Winston's Folly: imperialism and the creation of modern Iraq Christopher Catherwood Constable, 267pp, £12.99 ISBN 1841199397

Protestant hero

Himself Alone: David Trimble and the ordeal of unionism Dean Godson HarperCollins, 1,001pp, £35 ISBN 000257098X

The long view

Brief Lives W F Deedes Macmillan, 212pp, £12.99 ISBN 1405040858

Fiction - Baby hunger

The Family Way Tony Parsons HarperCollins, 359pp, £17.99 ISBN 0007151233

Ancient curse

The Confessions of Max Tivoli Andrew Sean Greer Faber & Faber, 267pp, £10.99 ISBN 0571220215

Observations

How the cabinet was usurped

Observations on sofas

People who are just like us

Observations on terrorists. By Brendan O'Neill

Marx loses his grip, 156 years on

Observations on taxes

To tag or not to tag?

Observations on privacy

Up your street

Observations on civic renewal

How to ask for a cup of tea

Observations on education

Green heroes

The top ten

20 green heroes and villains: Heroes

Green villains

The top ten

20 green heroes and villains: Villains

Bjorn Lomborg

Cloud control

Cloud control

Interview

Omar Bin Laden

The NS Interview: Omar Bin Laden

What if...

Hugh Gaitskell lived

What if... Hugh Gaitskell had lived

James Macintyre

Brown at war

Like it or not, Brown’s a war leader

Will Self

On brands

We’re all with the brand

Film review

A Serious Man

A Serious Man (15)

Vote!

Will Baroness Ashton be an effective EU foreign minister?

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