23 July 2007
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Cover story
Pink Planet
Brian Whitaker reports on the new global upsurge in pink politics, from China and Iraq to South America plus we've interviews with gay people around the globe
Features
Britain and the big So What?
Journalist and ex-Tory MP Matthew Parris on how he likes Britain better today than he did 20 years ago
Sunny Jim's big mistake
The ghost of James Callaghan, the last Labour prime minister to take over midterm, haunts Gordon Brown. The comparison may sound ludicrous, but if he falters it could stick.
Waking up to the new world order
Britain may still consider the US to be its closest ally, but it must look beyond old friends to new players in a world where power is rapidly changing hands.
Money: Foreigners at the gates of the banks
When the financial pages begin the hunt each year for the City's multimillion bonus earners, why is it so hard to find genuine British names on the list?
How we treat the desperate
Some of the world's most vulnerable and abused women end up in the Yarl's Wood Detention Centre awaiting deportation.
The man on the white horse
Could Fred Thompson be the answer to Republican prayers? The party of George W Bush may yet opt for an obscure 64-year-old ex-senator who has no known achievements.
I owe it all to dear old Wolfy
Lord Wolfenden is an unlikely gay hero, but by beginning the demystification of homosexuality he did us all a favour
Interview
The trials of Peter
Peter Tatchell is the British gay movement's great campaigner. But now that so many of the battles here have been won, does he think it's time for a different kind of gay politics?
Good in everyone No 3987
Set by Dipak Ghosh We asked you to follow the example of Jeffrey Archer, who wrote The Gospel According to Judas, presenting him as a much-misunderstood man who did not betray Jesus for money. We asked for similar whitewashes of other despised and hated figures to whom you, too, are emotionally close
Culture
Disappearing act
In the 1990s, gay storylines were all the rage in mainstream television; now they are all but non-existent. Campaigners accuse broadcasters of failing to reflect modern Britain.
Theatre
Saints and sinners
Shaw's feminist icon is brought to life by the opportunists who surround her Saint Joan Olivier Theatre, London SE1
Film
Where ghosts deal out death
The candid, almost complicit, camera on Haiti's gangsters tells a gripping story Ghosts of Cité Soleil (15) dir: Asger Leth
Television
Toys for the boys
Why has this silly man been given his own, eponymous programme? James May's 20th Century BBC2
Books
Preachers of doom
Evangelicals who proclaim the coming apocalypse have failed to mobilise ordinary Americans but their views are gaining influence in Washington.
Escaping the poverty trap
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Falling Behind and What Can Be Done About It Paul Collier Oxford University Press, 224pp, £16.99 ISBN 0195311450
Girl trouble
Girls of Riyadh Rajaa Alsanea Penguin, 303pp, £12.99 ISBN 1594201218
Picture perfect
Sukhdev Sandhu on graphic revolutionaries and imaginary pop stars
History in the making
Iran Awakening Shirin Ebadi with Azadeh Moaveni Rider Books, 232pp, £7.99 ISBN 1933368055
Observations
Chávez: the defence
Colin Burgon MP - chair of the Labour Friends of Venezuela - responds to last week's New Statesman story on the controversial South American leader
