05 February 2007
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Cover story
Britain's child army
Stricken by Iraq and low morale, the British army is on a desperate recruitment drive. Its new targets? Poorly educated teenagers and young schoolchildren
Features
A new credibility and a new scrutiny
Loans for honours has led to a cold fear gripping Labour. But the more electorally credible Cameron becomes, so attention will focus on the links in his party between cash and influence
Interview: Jon Cruddas
Tony Blair's former aide is standing as the people's choice and has little time for his cabinet rivals
Iran: The war begins
As opposition grows in America to the failed Iraq adventure, the Bush administration is preparing public opinion for an attack on Iran, its latest target, by the spring.
Consumer adultery - the new British vice
In the UK we throw away more consumer products, and faster, than anywhere else in Europe. The result is a shocking - and unsustainable - mountain of discarded hardware.
How the left went wrong
In early 2003, the largest co-ordinated protests in history took place against the Iraq war. This, argues Nick Cohen, was a failure of solidarity with the Iraqi people.
Regulars
Commons Confidential
Pink chocs for the squeeze
The Mouth of the Mersey tells Steve McClaren she won’t pack her bags until July
Poor visibility No 3963
Set by Ian Birchall We asked for a newspaper article explaining why the fog shutting down the airports was due to something other than the weather
Culture
Gild your own cage
Asking inmates to design their fantasy prison has produced some innovative results
Two-man army
Massive Attack transformed British music in the 1990s - and now they are fundraising for Palestine. The music industry must shake off its apathy, the band's frontman, Robert Del Naja, tells Alice O'Keeffe
Status Anxiety
Hogarth documented the 18th-century class divide - but he was also a keen social climber.
Theatre
A bird with clipped wings
A stellar cast fails to bring real passion to Chekhov's classic family saga The Seagull Royal Court Theatre, London SW1
Film
From literature to pulp fiction
This could have been a taut drama; instead, it's a squalid red-top exposé Notes on a Scandal (15) dir: Richard Eyre
Television
Twenty-four-hour party people
These young, horny, coke-snorting politicians seem fresh and real Party Animals BBC2
Books
Blind faith
Christian fundamentalism offers America's underclass hope and security - at the price of total obedience. Now it is threatening the Church of England
Where the light gets in
McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, issue 21 edited by Dave Eggers Hamish Hamilton, 352pp, £16.99 ISBN 0241143756
Pure escapism
The Secret Life of Houdini: the making of America's first superhero William Kalush and Larry Sloman Simon & Schuster, 592pp, £18.99 ISBN 184739082X
The talking cure
The Paris Review Interviews: volume one with an introduction by Philip Gourevitch Canongate, 510pp, £14.99 ISBN 0312361750
News from a lost world
Wintering Derek Johns Portobello Books, 199pp, £7.99 ISBN 1846270235
Fear and loathing
Piercing Ryu Murakami, translated by Ralph McCarthy Bloomsbury, 185pp, £10 ISBN 0747582203
Fighting talk
Guerrilla Warfare: authorised edition Ernesto Che Guevara Ocean Press, 160pp, £7 ISBN 1920888284
