Volume 118 Issue 3 September/October 2003

Cover Story

Return of the native: Adam Kuper debunks the myths which inform campaigns for indigenous people's rights

Vetting the Janitor: Keith Porteous Wood on how the religious lobby undermined a European directive on employment rights
How do they do that?: Tony Youens explains how you too can have psychic powers
Misplaced charity: Has religion got a monopoly on the silly season?
It's Party Time again: Simon Hoggart prepares for another round of barracking, bar brawls and bonhomie
I Give Up: What French letters did for Laurie Taylor
Look what happend next: Paul Barker plays a game of consequences
Suffer Little Children: With a new creationist academy opening this month, and the prospect of dozens more Church schools on the way, Marilyn Mason advises on how to mount effective opposition.

Waiting for Judgment Day: Matt Cherry cautions American liberals against putting so much faith in the Supreme Court
The luxury of doubt: Laurie Taylor interviews Will Self: Satirist, moralist and literary provocateur Will Self lectures Laurie Taylor on addiction, debauchery, banality and the search for serious thought
What Digital Revolution?: Brian Winston says that new technology will never make us free
Suits you, Madam: Sally Feldman unbuttons the classic male costume
Tilting Towards Windmills: Chris Ewels wonders when the lights will start going out in Britain
The future of human nature: Finn Bowring argues that biotechnology threatens the very meaning of humanity.
Judicial power: Matt Cherry explains the role of the US Supreme Court.
Church-State Issues Loom: Matt Chery on what the Supreme Court has to decide next.

Bringing Up Baby: Jan Fortune-Wood gleans nothing useful from a revolutionary child-rearing manual
Sooo.... Intelligent: Shirley Dent has little sympathy for Adam Thirlwell's Politics
Nutty Professors: Victor-Lewis Smith takes a critical look at science on TV
Dog's Days: Chris Paling peers inside the world of Martin Amis
Relative Truths: Jonathan Derbyshire on Steven Lukes' broadside against relativism
Go Sue God: Mike Power watches the Big Yin fight for damages
20p a Prayer: Is an artwork entitled It pays to pray satirical, or is it spiritual, asks Marilyn Mason
Fundamental Sickness: David Hall finds Islam in urgent need of a cure
A Little Fellow: John Maddox on a poor little guy called Newton
A sunny Eccentric: Jim Herrick on AN Wilson's biography of Iris Murdoch
Positively Negative: Richard Norman receives a primer in Atheism