10 March 2008
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Features
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
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
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
Diary
Glenn Hoddle's mullet
At the Ashes to Ashes story conference we talk about 1982, the Falklands and the IRA bomb in Hyde Park. How will Gene Hunt survive in a post-Scarman London?
Politics
On enemy territory
His desire to outflank the Tories on the right has distorted Gordon Brown's thinking
Commons Confidential
The whispers
Diplomatic deafness in Brum plus all the rest of the gossip from the Westminster Village
The Financial Page
Why the Tesco tax story rankles
The supermarket group's alleged behaviour has provoked outrage, but hundreds of other British companies are doing exactly the same thing
This England
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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
Arts & Culture
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
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
Performance
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
Film
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
Television
Broadcaster on the rocks
ITV's fortunes will continue to slide if it keeps producing drama this awful
Rock Rivals ITV
Travels
Paradise regained
Shunned by the tourist guides, the island of Icaria is a slice of bygone Greece
The way I see it
Jeffrey Lewis
Lewis is a singer-songwriter and comic-book artist from New York. His album “12 Crass Songs” (Rough Trade) is out now.
Books
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.
Another country
Going As Far As I Can: the Ultimate Travel Book
Duncan Fallowell Profile Books, 256pp, £12.99
Death becomes her
Death at Intervals
José Saramago, translated by Margaret Jull Costa Harvill Secker, 208pp, £12.99
Observations
What I saw in Jabaliya
Observations on Gaza with a special report from Mohammed Omer on an increasingly desperate situation
New Tory xenophobia
The Pentagon now realises Rumsfeldian neocon contempt for Europe - reflected by Hague and Liam Fox - is counterproductive
