07 April 2008
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Cover story
British jihad: Why our anti-terror strategy isn't working
There is a deep and dangerous confusion at the heart of the government's approach to the threat posed by violent Islam
Features
Zimbabwe goes to the brink
The "Big Man", last of the independence leaders, never seriously contemplated defeat writes Alec Russell. Plus read Stephen Chan's take
Wonky women
The political agenda is increasingly being set by women from leading research organisations. Poorly represented in government, are they having a greater impact from outside?
A waste of space
As Nasa turns 50, expect to hear much about lunar landings and giant leaps for mankind. But today a sense of unease hangs over an agency that badly needs to free itself from the shackles of the past.
It could be a stalemate
The Democratic race is so close that it may be decided by the super-delegates - and planeloads of lawyers
Protect and survive No 4021
Set by Hank T Romein After hearing that Brick Lane in London is to have its lamp posts padded to prevent people who walk and text at the same time from having accidents, we asked you for other measures to protect us from the vicissitudes of 21st-century life
Culture
Physical education
Wayne McGregor, Britain's hottest choreographer, tells Alice O'Keeffe that dance holds the answer to our national body-image crisis
The way I see it: Grayson Perry
Perry won the Turner Prize in 2003. "Unpopular Culture", his selection of works from the Arts Council Collection, goes on tour from 10 May
Inside the revolution
Rakhshan Bani-Etemad is Iran's premier female film director. For 20 years she has quietly challenged the status quo in her homeland.
Will you be in my tribe?
Ari Versluis spots social groups all over the world. Now he has come to the UK
Performance
The last Edwardian
An overly cautious portrait of Harold Macmillan fails to win our sympathy Never So Good Lyttelton Theatre, London SE1
Film
Back to the old school
The Eighties are affectionately evoked in this tale of childhood loyalty Son of Rambow (12A) dir: Garth Jennings
Television
It's good to be back
The former hostage makes a moving return to the scene of his kidnap Brian Keenan: Back to Beirut BBC2
Radio
Journey to the promised land
Martin Luther King is laid bare, neuroses and all, in an honest account of his death
Books
Leaving the ghetto
Short of money and short of food, V S Naipaul found his early life as a writer in Fifties London harsh. Then the BBC offered him a lifeline with a radio programme, Caribbean Voices. It became an important influence, but one he later felt obliged to disown
Extended family man
The Man Who Pushed America to War: the Extraordinary Life, Adventures and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi Aram Roston Nation Books, 369pp, £15.99
Musical youth
Gig: the Life and Times of a Rock-Star Fantasist Simon Armitage Viking, 320pp, £16.99
Manhattan on Mersey
So Spirited a Town: Visions and Versions of Liverpool Nicholas Murray Liverpool University Press, 256pp, £12.95
Métro, boulot, dodo
Petite Anglaise: a True Story Catherine Sanderson Michael Joseph, 352pp, £12.99
Tales of typographic oceans
Pilcrow Adam Mars-Jones Faber & Faber, 525pp, £18.99
