10 March 2008

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Features

The power to save Britain

The power to save Britain

How our island could be supplying Europe with green electricity. Plus Peter Hain on getting real about renewables

Getting real on renewables

We need to replace the can’t-do culture when it comes to to green energy, argues Labour's Peter Hain

Interview: Samantha Power

Interview: Samantha Power

NS interview with the self-proclaimed "humanitarian hawk" who - until her resignation for calling Hillary Clinton a monster this week - was part of Barack Obama's team

Australia's hidden empire

Australia's hidden empire

That Canberra runs an imperial network is unmentionable, yet the chain of control stretches from the Aboriginal slums of Sydney to the South Pacific

Regulars

On enemy territory

On enemy territory

His desire to outflank the Tories on the right has distorted Gordon Brown's thinking

The whispers

Diplomatic deafness in Brum plus all the rest of the gossip from the Westminster Village

Dear Prime Minister No 4017

Set by Grace ElegyForget employing your wife or son using taxpayers' money. We wanted to know what other extremes of behaviour might prompt a minister to resign these days

Culture

Hideously middle-class

Hideously middle-class

The BBC's White Season equates working-class culture with racism and the BNP, and exposes unsavoury values at the heart of the corporation

Reggae revolution

Perry Henzell created Jamaica's first feature film against all the odds, writes his daughter.

Imperfect Harmony

Imperfect Harmony

At 22, Harmony Korine was Hollywood's hottest property. Five years later he was down and out on the streets of Paris. But life is finally back on track

A diabolical mess

A diabolical mess

Poor direction of a new play by the RSC in London leaves the audience cold I'll Be the Devil RSC at the Tricycle Theatre, London NW6

Second time lucky?

Second time lucky?

Two directors follow up their promising debuts - with varying results Garage (18) dir: Lenny Abrahamson The Cottage (18) dir: Paul Andrew Williams

Broadcaster on the rocks

Broadcaster on the rocks

ITV's fortunes will continue to slide if it keeps producing drama this awful Rock Rivals ITV

The late, late show

Alan Partridge-type naffness aside, night-time has great treats to offer

Books

How comics grew up (and so did I)

How comics grew up (and so did I)

They were once deplored by parents and teachers as moronic, trashy and culpably American. Today superhero comics are considered a serious art form.

Intimations of mortality

Intimations of mortality

Nothing to Be Frightened Of Julian Barnes Jonathan Cape, 250pp, £16.99

Another country

Going As Far As I Can: the Ultimate Travel Book Duncan Fallowell Profile Books, 256pp, £12.99

Death becomes her

Death becomes her

Death at Intervals José Saramago, translated by Margaret Jull Costa Harvill Secker, 208pp, £12.99

How to misread Robbe-Grillet

How to misread Robbe-Grillet

Jonathan Meades on the supreme novelist of France's trente glorieuses

Observations

What I saw in Jabaliya

What I saw in Jabaliya

Observations on Gaza with a special report from Mohammed Omer on an increasingly desperate situation

Nose no problem

Nose no problem

Observations on Iran where there are phemonenal numbers of nose jobs

New Tory xenophobia

The Pentagon now realises Rumsfeldian neocon contempt for Europe - reflected by Hague and Liam Fox - is counterproductive

The straight and narrow

Observations on scouting

Moodometer

We test the temperature of the nation this week

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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