23 April 2007

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Cover story

Climate change: Why we don't believe it

Climate change: Why we don't believe it

We reveal an unreported gulf between the pronouncements of campaigners and politicians and British public opinion plus in the comments below we have responses from David Miliband, Peter Ainsworth, Sian Berry, Friends of the Earth and more...

Features

The darker side of Dave

The darker side of Dave

As the media hunt for a challenger to Gordon Brown, they have all but ignored the real agenda of David Cameron's Conservatives.

Wales: England's oldest colony

Wales: England's oldest colony

Subjugated and marginalised, the Welsh have refused to be dominated. But the conqueror's tactics have been so successful that resentment now runs deep on both sides of Offa's Dyke.

Colombia: Progress at a price

Colombia: Progress at a price

The murderous paramilitaries have been disbanded and "reintegrated" into society with generous benefits. But where is the justice for those who died?

Song for Europe No 3974

Set by Didier d'Argent We asked for more profound entries for the Eurovision Song Contest (the finals for 2007 take place in Helsinki on 12 May) as written by a philosopher of your choice

Culture

Soul searching

Soul searching

The Eighth Sharjah Biennial is the latest in a series of huge art exhibitions to take place in the Gulf. Rachel Aspden finds that the work on show fails to challenge the rigidly controlled society outside the gallery

The lives of saints

The lives of saints

Gandhi is idealised in the west, but in Indian culture he is emerging as a complex figure.

Redemption songs

Redemption songs

Rock Against Racism, which inspired Live Aid and helped forge multicultural Britain, is documented in a new film

Tailor-made for the stage

Tailor-made for the stage

Bewitchingly real adaptation finds humanity amid the chaos of 1970s India A Fine Balance Hampstead Theatre, London NW3

Addictive personalities

Addictive personalities

The charismatic Ryan Gosling looks good even on a diet of hard drugs Half Nelson (15) dir: Ryan Fleck

Fighting a losing battle

Fighting a losing battle

Tony Marchant's scathing portrait of British troops in Iraq was unjust The Mark of Cain Channel 4

Mischief from beyond the grave

Mischief from beyond the grave

There's plenty of agony in store on The Archers, thanks to a clever plot twist The Archers Radio 4

Books

The Opposite House

The Opposite House

An exclusive extract from the new novel by Helen Oyeyemi Illustration by Rachel Riordan

Unearthing history

Unearthing history

City of the Sharp-Nosed Fish: Greek lives in Roman Egypt Peter Parsons Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 320pp, £25 ISBN 0297645889

Lines of beauty

Lines of beauty

At the Same Time Susan Sontag Hamish Hamilton, 256pp, £18.99 ISBN 0241143713

Forgiveness, not revenge

Forgiveness, not revenge

Leaving Beirut Mai Ghoussoub Saqi Books, 188pp, £8.99 ISBN 0863566766

Tales from the duvet

Tales from the duvet

Tomorrow Graham Swift Picador, 248pp, £16.99 ISBN 0330450182

War of the words

Day A L Kennedy Jonathan Cape, 280pp, £16.99 ISBN 0224077864

Freedom next time

Freedom next time

Another Sky: voices of conscience from around the world Edited by Lucy Popescu and Carole Seymour-Jones, with a foreword by Tom Stoppard Profile Books, 276pp, £8.99 ISBN 1861978405

Tinseltown tyrants

Tinseltown tyrants

Hollywood and the Mob: movies, mafia, sex & death Tim Adler Bloomsbury, 278pp, £17.99 ISBN 0747577234

Keeping track

Keeping track

Extracts from the Red Notebooks Matthew Engel Macmillan, 160pp, £9.99 ISBN 0330449540

Voice of the streets

Voice of the streets

Flamenco Legend: in search of Camarón de la Isla Marcos NPI Media, 288pp, £18.99 ISBN 0752439928

Observations

A right to keep digging

A right to keep digging

Observations on freedom of information

Maoists who moved on

Maoists who moved on

Observations on Nepal

Come in, but cough up

Observations on visa charges

Have it all, right now!

Have it all, right now!

Observations on "The Secret"

Moodometer

We test the temperature of the nation this week

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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