29 November 2004
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Cover story
Would you buy a car that looked like this?
Andrew Simms argues that SUVs are as dangerous to health as tobacco and should be made to carry similar warnings
Features
Did Dubbya rig the election?
Michael Meacher smells something fishy in Bush's return to office. The evidence of fraud is not yet conclusive but, given the Republicans' record, it is all too plausible
See you in court
Our intimate secrets, once revealed in divorce cases, now come out at employment tribunals
A child is in mortal danger. This man can tell you where he is, but won't talk. What would you do?
Since the 17th century, Britain has been clear that it is wrong even to threaten suspects with torture or beatings. Nick Cohen asks if a German case could make us change our minds
Regulars
The Politics Column
Politics - John Kampfner finds ministers on the defence
Tony Blair, the Karl Rove of British politics, made a crucial mistake with the Queen's Speech: he talked tough on security rather than the causes of insecurity
Amanda Platell can't bear the new, snobbish Today
Portillo should know better than to ruin a man by calling him a future Tory leader
Darcus Howe welcomes more police paperwork
If the police have to record every stop and search, they might do it a little less
Mark Kermode - Heart of the matter
An existential investigation uncovers a lot of hot air. By Mark Kermode I Heart Huckabees (15)
Competition
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Culture
Cool, calm and collected
New York's Museum of Modern Art is back in business: svelte and shiny, writes Jonathan Glancey, compared with our brooding, industrial Tate
Shock and awe
Museums - Michael Portillo doubts that even MoMA can restore New York as the world's arts mecca
On a smaller scale
Architecture 2 - How do you present the entire history of buildings in one gallery? With difficulty, finds Grant Gibson
Television
Andrew Billen - Faking it
Television - Couples get their act together on the ultimate make-over show. By Andrew Billen Sex Inspectors (Channel 4)
The Fan
The fan - Hunter Davies loves those intimate moments in players' lives
That player who has old, worn eyes. Didn't Baden Powell warn him?
Books
Christmas books
Our critics choose their books of the year, including J G Ballard, A S Byatt, Margaret Drabble, Terry Eagleton, and Ziauddin Sardar
Forgotten favourites - Disappearing act
The Invisible Man H G Wells Kessinger Publishing, 140pp, £15.95 ISBN 141916757X
Forgotten favourites - A rake's progress
A Gentleman of France Stanley J Weyman Wildside Press, 316pp, £15.45 ISBN 1592243975
Forgotten favourites - Accidental tourist
Amours de Voyage Arthur Hugh Clough Lightning Source, 52pp, £11.95 ISBN 141910599X
Forgotten favourites - Working-class hero
Dusky Ruth and Other Stories A E Coppard Penguin (out of print) ISBN 014003854X
