14 May 2007
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Cover story
The second coming
As Tony Blair departs, Gordon Brown will launch a plan to transform Labour's style through constitutional change and "empathy".
Features
Danger man?
The one thing everybody knew they would get from Nicolas Sarkozy was change. So no one will be surprised if the new French president goes into pitched battle with the trade unions and gets tough on immigration. He might even fall out with Gordon.
Mad as hell
A new wave of militant consumer is rising, hitting large corporations where it hurts - in the wallet. They're middle-class, sick of bad service and they're not taking it any more.
When Mr Brown goes to Washington
The success or failure of Gordon Brown's prime ministership will lie across the Atlantic. So how will America react to him?
The politics of excitement
The Blair decade began with an exuberant rush of energy and sense of possibility. How can politics recapture the ability to inspire us? Hard action and clear choices?
No 3977 Lucky Jim
Set by Ian Birchall "Jim'll Fix It" is back on telly (UKTV Gold). What might any contemporary personality or politician write in to ask for?
Culture
Wild at heart?
Garth Cartwright finds the reality of gypsy life a far cry from the myth perpetuated by musicians and film-makers
Culture vultures
Will the Olympics really be bad for the arts? David Lammy outlines his plans for the 2012 "Cultural Olympiad"
Theatre
You're not swinging any more
A timid production fails to capture the tension and the thrill of 1950s London Absolute Beginners Lyric Hammersmith, London W6
Film
Whitewashed and watered down
Mandela is relegated to the sidelines of his own life in this cowardly biopic Goodbye Bafana (15) dir: Bille August
Television
Journeys with a camera
Jonathan Meades is irritating, but this is a ravishing, quirky travel documentary
Jonathan Meades: abroad again
BBC2
Gavin Stamp's Orient Express
Channel 5
Radio
Truth and reconciliation
A show that brought a bomber face to face with his victims has been justly rewarded The Reunion Radio 4
Books
In the shadow of the towers
The World Trade Center haunted Don DeLillo's writing for three decades. Now he draws a stunned, allusive novel from its destruction. Falling Man Don DeLillo Picador, 246pp, £16.99 ISBN 0330452231
For the love of Lenin
Young Stalin Simon Sebag Montefiore Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 397pp, £25 ISBN 0297850687
Dangerous minds
The Islamist: why I joined radical Islam in Britain, what I saw inside and why I left Ed Husain Penguin, 304pp, £8.99 ISBN 0141030437
How to save America
Jamestown Matthew Sharpe Soft Skull Press, 320pp, £12.50 ISBN 1933368608
Keep the globe in trim
The Low Carbon Diet Polly Ghazi and Rachel Lewis Short Books, 224pp, £12.99 ISBN 1904977987
Divine retribution
The Violence of God and the War on Terror Jeremy Young Darton, Longman and Todd, 217pp, £12.95 ISBN 0232526664
Vanishing city
No Vulgar Hotel: the desire and pursuit of Venice Judith Martin W W Norton, 256pp, £15.99 ISBN 0393059324
