13 August 2007
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Cover story
The road fix
Why do we keep building more roads? Because when it comes to planning, the deck is cynically stacked in favour of the road builders - and against the environment.
Features
Salmond's audacious leap
The First Minister may hold power by a whisker, but he acts like a man with a landslide. Now it's time for his white paper on independence
How paedophiles can be stopped
Many abusers start offending at an early age, often having been abused themselves. A new project aimed at treating young offenders is beginning to yield encouraging results
The Arctic killers
The scramble for the Arctic's oil and gas has begun. Marek Kohn reports exclusively from Svalbard on how, in this most sensitive of environments, the plunderers count on climate change for help
Born equal?
Andrew Stephen on how the US is no longer a land where people of humble origin become film stars and presidents. Plus Marika Mathieu on UK wealth inequality
Britain: our divided nation
The income gap between rich and poor goes on getting bigger, yet we seem remarkably unconcerned
Put down the mop! No 3990
Set by Pat O’Byrne Following Tony Blair’s example of proposing to Cherie while she was cleaning the loo, we asked you to think up equally romantic scenarios for other people in the public eye
Culture
Scaling the heights
Venezuela's pioneering classical music programme for children has produced world-class artists such as the young conductor Gustavo Dudamel. It has also quietly transformed the social fabric of the country.
A new direction
Do the recent deaths of four icons of 20th-century art-house cinema spell the end of the auteur? Of course not, writes the NS film critic.
Theatre
The crying game
A woman's lonely search for happiness mirrors the author's real-life tragedy The Enchantment Cottesloe Theatre, London SE1
Film
Just another gigolo
Woody Harrelson gives a waspish performance in this story of a male escort The Walker (15) dir: Paul Schrader
Television
The Naked Chef exposed
Jamie Oliver's endorsement of garden produce is marred by hypocrisy Jamie at HomeChannel 4
Books
Magical mystery tour
The most important chronicler of modern Britain is not Amis or McEwan, argues Christopher Bray, but the mistress of the whodunnit - Ruth Rendell
A very broad church
The Protestant Revolution: from Martin Luther to Martin Luther King William G NaphyEbury, 304pp, £19.99
Grisly, bare stories
If You Liked School, You’ll Love Work Irvine Welsh Jonathan Cape, 391pp, £11.99
University of life
A Girl’s Guide to Modern European Philosophy Charlotte Greig Serpent’s Tail, 275pp, £10.99
