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Cover of New Humanist Volume 117 Issue 4 Winter 2002

Volume 117 Issue 4 Winter 2002

Cover Story

Bombs Away
Who needs the arms trade? asks David Mepham

Columns

Posthumous Prejudice
Tom Baldwin on how to stay straight after death
Cereal Lies
Simon Hoggart goes round in circles
Plus Ca Change
An occasional column dedicated to items from the past that ring a familiar note in the present
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

Features

Evolution Battles
Matt Cherry on 'dowdy Darwin and 'cool Charles'
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

Culture

Austere Communist
Eric Hobsbawm's life, review by Jonathan Rée
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
City Tours
Marilyn Mason walks the streets
Hillbilly Secrets
Sally Feldman relishes an Italian parable
Pre-Packed Pop
Andrew Calcutt raises two cheers for TV talent shows
Was it ever right?
Hazhir Teimourian despairs of Islam
Mental Sets
David Boulton prises open the Western mind
Philosophy of Terror
Richard Norman reviews Ted Honderich's take on terrorism
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