19 November 2007
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Cover story
Black & blue
Labour has long taken the vote of ethnic minorities for granted. But Afro-Caribbean voters have a natural conservatism that could see many switch their allegiance to David Cameron
Features
Jacqui Smith: a question of courage?
Why do Labour Home Office ministers stumble so badly when they attempt to deal with immigration? Because the party is still fundamentally uncomfortable with the whole issue
Tactical Briefing
From: The Unit To: GB Subject: Public quaking
A reformed character?
Jonathan Aitken is heading a Tory prison reform group. Some eyebrows are raised.
Everybody this case touches, it hurts
The damage that was done in the early days of the Lawrence murder investigation cannot be easily undone, particularly not if the announcement of a new forensic breakthrough is part of a publicity stunt.
The forgotten fallen
Remembrance Day was marred by the unacknowledged deaths in Iraq - a genocide that threatens to outstrip the horrors of Rwanda in the numbers killed and displaced
Interview
''Brown and Cameron are illiterate and parochial''
Nick Clegg dismisses charges he's the right-wing candidate in the Lib Dem leadership election. He's eloquent and confident but it's no more Mr Nice Guy
Regulars
Commons Confidential
Two gatherings of the Brown fan club for the price of one
All the gossip from the Westminster village
Person of the Year 2007
Your chance to vote for the person you think has done the most for the good of humanity this year. Which man or woman most demonstrated the better side of being human?
Culture
The lion king
With his passion and film-star smile undimmed, Robert Redford still reigns over the Hollywood left. But he is not interested in polemic
To a different beat
With jagged, fragile soundscapes, the mysterious Burial has created a modern classic, writes Jude Rogers
Art for the people
Thomas Schütte’s sculpture for Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth is a genuinely public work
Theatre
Get ready for lift-off
French soldiers fly high above King Hal in the RSC's latest production Henry V Courtyard Theatre, Stratford
Film
A rather sorry affair
This confused and timid adaptation does no justice to Monica Ali's novel Brick Lane (15) dir: Sarah Gavron Jesus Camp (PG) dir: Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady
Television
Because our fathers lied
Kipling's guilt at sending his son to war is touchingly retold by David Haig My Boy Jack ITV1
Books
Cooking the books
Since the 1970s, US governments have been in thrall to an absurd, yet devastating economic theory. Now it is part of the Tory plan for Britain
Tale of the century
Modernism: the Lure of Heresy - From Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond Peter Gay Heinemann, 640pp, £20
Global perspective
Mirror of the World: a New History of Art Julian Bell Thames & Hudson, 496pp, £24.95
Critical failures
Miss Herbert Adam Thirlwell Jonathan Cape, 592pp, £25
Consuming criticism
Table Talk: Sweet and Sour, Salt and Bitter A A Gill Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 288pp, £16.99
Survival of the Sloane
Cooler, Faster, More Expensive: the Return of the Sloane Ranger Peter York & Olivia Stewart Liberty Atlantic, 251pp, £19.99
