15 November 2004

Iraq: the unthinkable becomes normal

By John Pilger

Mainstream media speak as if Fallujah were populated only by foreign "insurgents". In fact, women and children are being slaughtered in our name

The boy genius behind Bush

By Andrew Stephen

Don't attribute the Republican triumph to the voters' moral values. Credit instead Karl Rove, an expert at electoral dirty tricks. From Andrew Stephen in Washington

Reclaim our Englishness and throw out the burgers

By Paul Kingsnorth

Paul Kingsnorth argues that we cannot welcome all comers unless we know what we are welcoming them to. We need a new patriotism, based on defending pubs, corner shops and apples

In area 429, the drugs trade thrives

By Shiv Malik

The devout Muslim families of Harehills in Leeds support traditional values. So why are their children working for crack dealers? Shiv Malik reports

Who can cure the pharmaceuticals?

By Margaret Cook

Margaret Cook on how the influence of drugs companies has seeped, through their control of research and even of the official regulator, into the fabric of medical life

Daddy will stop at nothing to see you

By Nick Cohen

Fronted by Batman and purveyors of "flour-power", the fathers' rights movement has struck Britons as benign - but its methods reveal a more sinister side

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A Bollywood hospital saga

By Samir Shah

When his father had a heart attack in Mumbai, Samir Shah found that Indian medicine had come into the 21st century - give or take a few mongrel dogs

The Politics Column

Politics - John Kampfner on the only friend Tony has left

By John Kampfner

Even "new Europe" has now parted from Tony Blair on Iraq. The PM has been reduced to phoning Hungary's centre-right opposition, begging it to scupper plans to withdraw troops

Darcus Howe bemoans lawless Trinidad

By Darcus Howe

In Trinidad, even human rights lawyers seem not to care when people get shot

Amanda Platell finds The X Factor tasteless

By Amanda Platell

The duo from The X Factor moaned as loudly as if they'd been held at Guantanamo Bay

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