Volume 118 Issue 1 Spring 2003
Features
- Have you the means?
- Julian Baggini sets a pensions question
- Hail Mary!
- Sally Feldman on making your children worship you
- Revealing is Healing
- Her mother, Ruth First, was assassinated by a parcel bomb sent by the South African security forces. Her father, Joe Slovo, helped create the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. And the commission let her mothers assassin go free. Gillian Slovo confronts the contradictions.
- Gilt Money
- Paul Barker watches St Petersburg go backwards
- Above all Liberties
- Brian Winston condemns plans for a new quango to regulate the media
- Leggo Relijan: Laurie Taylor interviews Linton Kwesi Johnson
- Linton Kwesi Johnson is one of only two living poets to be published in the Penguin Modern Classics series. Laurie Taylor talks to him about reggae and resistance.
- Gun Law
- No need to panic over Gangsta Rap, says Andrew Calcutt
- The People in Gravest Danger
- No one might suffer more from a war in Iraq than the Kurds, warns Noam Chomsky
- Shanghai's Revenge
- Frank Jordans discovers a city leaping forward
Cover Stories
- Homicide - Justifiable
- Matt Cherry tells the story of a judicial killing
Culture
- Bring on the Clones
- Freethoughts reviewed by Joan Harris
- Frying Tonight
- Food history reviewed by Shirley Dent
- Defying the Gods
- Salman Rushide's latest short stories reviewed by Bonnie Greer
- Cheap Shots
- Andrew Tudor wants morality with his violence
- Brief Encounter
- A compendium of political journalism reviewed by Hazhir Teimourian
- Evolution by Jerks
- Stephen Jay Gould's last work reviewed by Jonathan Rée
- Saving the World
- Jeremy Stangroom on Nicholas Mosley's invention of God
- No Apologia
- David Hall reviews Ibn Warraq's analysis of the Koran
- Dangerous Virus
- Richard Dawkins collected writing reviewed by Mark Pagel
- Easy does it
- A slow tale reviewed by Alan Brownjohn
Columns
- Count me out
- Laurie Taylor gets ready to resign (again)
- Preying Together
- Editorial by Jim Herrick
- You're in Denial
- Michael Rosen on saying No
- Another Pint of Claret
- Simon Hoggart wonders whether the House is dumbing down
- Nuclear Threat
- Mark Steel wonders whether we should be worried about the Womens Institute
- In the Cross Fire
- Tom Baldwin on bishops and the war