25 May 2009
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Cover story
Unfinished business
Politics has taken a pounding. Constitutional reforms are needed – but it may be too late for Labour to complete the job, writes Andrew Grice
Features
Just the sort of place the BNP loves
Stoke is a town in decline and it is in declining towns that the far right is taking hold. Daniel Trilling reports from the English Midlands
Settlers or squatters?
The politics of demolition and construction in East Jerusalem have always been fraught. Now Israeli settlers are using archaeological excavation as cover for a programme of expansion and dispossession – but the inhabitants of one Palestinian village won’t go quietly.
Do not adjust your set
Samantha Morton’s film about children in care is the latest in a string of ambitious new Channel 4 dramas. Has the broadcaster, long derided as the purveyor of trashy reality TV, cleaned up its act?
Regulars
The Politics Column
A taxi to the top
As the candidates to replace Michael Martin line up, more and more Labour MPs are backing an unlikely Tory moderniser
Down & Out in London
The last outpost of Bohemia
I may be surviving on carpet lint and the charity of friends, but at least I don’t have to get up in the morning
World Citizen
Look back for a brighter future
History will judge New Labour harshly. Unlike the 1945 government, it lacked a reforming vision – but the financial crisis provides an unprecedented chance for renewal
Culture
The bubble economy
A film about an 18th-century criminal has an eery resonance with the events of today
God Is Back: How the Global Rise of Faith Is Changing the World
Contrary to what evangelical rationalists preach, it is perfectly possible both to be modern and to believe in God. But there is no reason to assume that the American religious model will prevail
The sorcerer's apprentice
The classic electronic soundworlds of Stockhausen are revived and remixed by one of the late master's most celebrated students
Film
Anatomy of a murderous milieu
The veteran French director’s X-ray lens is as sharply focused as it ever was
