22 November 2004
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Cover story
Police state
The police and immigration services have combined in a new "street sweep" operation that targets passengers on the London Underground and passers-by in the street. Their crime? Looking foreign
Features
The law chief who bowed to Blair
EXCLUSIVE: The NS reveals how, on the eve of the Iraq invasion, Tony Blair and George Bush leant on Lord Goldsmith, the Attorney General, to change his mind on the legality of the war
Deported from America
Under US laws passed in the mid-1990s and now being strictly enforced, minor and long-forgotten offences can lead to jail and eventual exile, reports Stephen Davis
How looking for work turns you into a victim
By Brendan O'Neill
The Boris, Cecil and Jeffrey club
When an alpha male is also a politician, Darwinian instincts won't be easily reined in
Back to great grandma's cooking
The answer to obesity is the same as the answer to hunger: traditional food, locally grown
A nation in search of an identity
Turkey appears to be moving eastwards and westwards at the same time. But is it really possible to invent a pro-market Islamism? Report
The new internationalism
America will be the world's sole superpower for only a few more years. Let's get ready
NS/BT round table - Big dreams at the click of a mouse
The East Midlands wants to become one of the top regional economies in Europe. Its ambition is achievable - but requires a cultural revolution. Matthew Broersma reports
Regulars
Amanda Platell can't bear the Paula Radcliffe saga
I bump into Rod Liddle's girlfriend. Argh! I wrote that he should go back to his wife
Darcus Howe pays homage to a Caribbean mum
How the mother of a murdered girl kept our Caribbean community together
Mark Thomas asks what is the point of Band Aid
The trouble with Band Aid is that you can buy the single, think you have done your bit and walk away none the wiser about the causes of poverty in the developing world
Competition
Win vouchers to spend at any Tesco store
Culture
Gaijin takeaway
America may seem an ever more dominant force in the world's film industry, but Hollywood has long been seeking inspiration from overseas, argues Ian G Mason. Welcome to the great American movie - Japanese style
House of horrors
Contemporary art - Bodies bagged up in bin liners, a hunched figure behind a shower curtain, an unseen child screaming. Richard Cork is spooked by a haunting installation
The wandering minstrels
Classical music - As the Royal Festival Hall prepares to close for a year and a half, Annette Morreau fears for the future of its resident orchestras
Theatre
Comedy heaven
Theatre - Michael Coveney applauds Mel Brooks for turning tasteless farce into a peerless musical
Film
Mark Kermode - Close encounters
Film - An "unfilmable" novel has produced the best of British by Mark Kermode Enduring Love (15)
Television
Andrew Billen - Give me glamour
Television - A new arts programme should get better with age, writes Andrew Billen The Culture Show (BBC2)
The Fan
The fan - Hunter Davies
A day with the hacks. Top breakfast, plush seats, but not a player in sight
Books
Revolution without end. Fidel Castro's regime has been marked by relatively low levels of repression and a sense of solidarity with other protest movements. But perhaps its most remarkable feature is that it has survived so long
Cuba: a new history Richard Gott Yale University Press, 384pp, £18.99 ISBN 0300104111
Pieces of meat
Muscle Jon Hotten Yellow Jersey Press, 262pp, £10.99 ISBN 0224069667
A heavy price
A Tragic Honesty: the life and work of Richard Yates Blake Bailey Methuen, 671pp, £25 ISBN 0413774325
Nasty furrow
Untouchables: dirty cops, bent justice and racism in Scotland Yard Michael Gillard and Laurie Flynn Cutting Edge, 544pp, £18.99 ISBN 1903813042
Fnarr! Fnarr!
Twenty-Five Years of Viz Edited by William Cook Boxtree, 220pp, £20 ISBN 0752225251 Rude Kids: the unfeasible story of Viz Chris Donald HarperCollins, 378pp, £20
Creative history
South Africa: the first man, the last nation R W Johnson Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 244pp, £16.99 ISBN 0297646729
Fiction - Offally nice
Hash Torgny Lindgren Duckworth, 236pp, £14.99 ISBN 0715632647
William Skidelsky loathes Rita Konig's gimmicky new recipe book
Only in Britain could there be a recipe book for people who can't cook
