Books Grown-up wild child: Astrid Lindgren, the steely Swedish writer behind Pippi Longstocking In a way, Lindgren is a metaphor for Sweden itself. By Melanie McDonagh
Books Terry Eagleton is still the most formidable critic of populist late-capitalism By Melanie McDonagh
How Britons helped Milosevic We once supported the man now on trial for war crimes as a peacebroker By Melanie McDonagh
The Serbs chose their own butcher Slobodan Milosevic is now portrayed as an evil foisted upon a defenceless people. Melanie McDonagh r By Melanie McDonagh
The Church that loves chocolate The film Chocolat oozes anti-Catholic prejudice - worst of all, that a religion which loves By Melanie McDonagh
Time to deal with a typical British fudge The ethics of embryo research have not been addressed By Melanie McDonagh
Christmas turned upside down New Statesman Christmas - Our season of gluttony should be preceded, not followed, by fasti By Melanie McDonagh
Make the Lords a lottery We should select our upper house with a phone book and a pin By Melanie McDonagh
Idealism is alive and well The British protesters who were jailed in Burma show that the great causes live on. They just aren't By Melanie McDonagh
A just war also has its dark sides In Kosovo, the victims have turned oppressors. Why are we surprised? asks Melanie McDonagh By Melanie McDonagh