Volume 117 Issue 4 Winter 2002

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Plus Ca Change: An occasional column dedicated to items from the past that ring a familiar note in the present
Cereal Lies: Simon Hoggart goes round in circles
Relatively Speaking: Michael Rosen wonders where the modern family ends
No News is New News: Julian Baggini thinks about reporting
What a state we are in: Editorial by Jim Herrick
Fifth Estate: Frank Jordans goes underground
The God of Twee Things: Mark Steel wants some passion
Posthumous Prejudice: Tom Baldwin on how to stay straight after death

My Husband and I: Victor Lewis-Smith delivers an alternative, foul-mouthed Queen's Christmas message
Walking in the Dark: Laurie Taylor interviews Jonathan Miller: Laurie Taylor discovers what it's like to be Jonathan Miller
Brain Box: Susan Greenfield tells Daire Brehan why religion beats the void (and football)
Halting Traffic: Sarah Williams on the dirty trade in humans
Folie a Deux: Laurie Taylor learns to play with others
Anyone Watching?: Why Brian Winston won't be sending Christmas pictures
Fighting Shadows: Michael Binyon on Islam's long path to modernity
Evolution Battles: Matt Cherry on 'dowdy Darwin and 'cool Charles'

Fight for Survival: Mark Pagel learns from an old master
Stay in Heaven: Michael Rosen on the poetry of Jacques Prevert
Warm Puppies: Jeremy Stangroom on the perils of happiness
Hillbilly Secrets: Sally Feldman relishes an Italian parable
City Tours: Marilyn Mason walks the streets
Was it ever right?: Hazhir Teimourian despairs of Islam
Pre-Packed Pop: Andrew Calcutt raises two cheers for TV talent shows
Mental Sets: David Boulton prises open the Western mind
Philosophy of Terror: Richard Norman reviews Ted Honderich's take on terrorism
Austere Communist: Eric Hobsbawm's life, review by Jonathan Rée