21 May 2007
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Cover story
Brown needs the left
The premier-in-waiting has been dismissive of his challengers. But, as Martin Bright reports, Brown will not be able to brush aside their politics for long... Read the Inside Track on the Blair succession with Peter Wilby, Kevin Maguire, the view from the other side with Tara Hamilton-Miller and Andrew Stephen with the view from Washington
Features
Not so quiet on the eastern front
In the frontier lands of the EU, tension is growing as a resurgent Russia is using its restive minorities to increase its influence.
Edge Upstarts Awards 2007 winners
Social enterprises are now challenging and changing markets and industries as diverse as bottled water, couture, electricity generation and travel
Beyond
A new wave of young entrepreneurs is using our passion for healthy lifestyles as a way of promoting global economic and social justice
What about the women?
It's now an established fact the female vote decides elections. Gordon needs more than a make-over: he won't win unless he learns to speak a different language
Regulars
Commons Confidential
Brownites and Brownies: the war starts soon
All the gossip behind the New Labour succession
No 3978 Don' diss the daffs
Set by Ian Blake To attract teenagers to the Lake District, there is now a rap version of Wordsworth's "Daffodils". You were asked for rap versions of other well-known poems to tempt our yoof to visit other unlikely locations
Culture
Britain through the lens
A new exhibition of British photography sets out to explore "how we are", but the images show a thinly veiled contempt for the lives of ordinary people
Two-way traffic
Just as western acts are inspired by "world music", African artists are tapping into rock, funk and jazz
The war on culture
As creator of The West Wing, Aaron Sorkin became a hate figure for the American right. He tells Stephen Armstrong why his new series is set in the television industry
Theatre
The man who fell to earth
A bitter-sweet play about mortality lies behind this elaborate production A Matter of Life and Death Olivier Theatre, London SE1
Film
Watching the detectives
This thriller defies conventions to show the true personal cost of a murder case Zodiac (15) dir: David Fincher
Television
A low-budget love affair
Was du Maurier's sexuality really the most important thing about her? Daphne, BBC2 Rick Stein in du Maurier Country, BBC2
Radio
More hits than misses
Radio 2 is still a mixed bag, but hiring glitzy new talent has paid off BBC Radio 2
Books
Nostalgia addicts
The British love to dwell on their postwar "decline", but our grumpiness is misplaced, writes Lynsey Hanley. We have no need to despair - or to emigrate A History of Modern Britain Andrew Marr Macmillan, 500pp, £25 ISBN 1405005386
Freedom, soldier
Bad Men: Guantanamo Bay and the secret prisons Clive Stafford Smith Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 320pp, £16.99 ISBN 0297852213
Born in the UK
Greetings from Bury Park: race, religion and rock'n'roll Sarfraz Manzoor Bloomsbury, 288pp, £12.99 ISBN 0747577110
Writers uncovered
How I Write: the secret lives of authors Edited by Dan Crowe, with Philip Oltermann Rizzoli, 192pp, £19.95 ISBN 0847829421
A rural retreat
Our Farm: a year in the life of a smallholding Rosie Boycott Bloomsbury, 304pp, £14.99 ISBN 074758897X
Roman holiday
Ancient Rome on Five Denarii a Day Philip Matyszak Thames & Hudson, 139pp, £12.95 ISBN 050005147X
