Volume 118 Issue 4 November/December 2003
Cover Stories
- A better Class of Irony
- Fred Inglis on postmodern pedantry and the death of irony
Features
- This is my Truth: Laurie Taylor interviews Clare Short
- Clare Short talks to Laurie Taylor about faith, doubt and the resignation that never was
- Christian cruelty
- Victor LewisSmith demands the right to die painlessly
- Blessed Are the Yogurt Makers
- Sally Feldman unwraps the complexity of the Christmas present
- Back to the garden . . .
- Roger Griffin considers the responsibility that comes with our special place in the natural world
- Escape from Eden
- Raymond Tallis revisits the big question: what makes humans special?
- Raising The Red Crescent
- Jonathan Benthall on the politics of islamic aid
- Unbuckling the bible belt
- Orlando Radice on Bushs virgins
- Can Bush be beaten?
- Bill Cooke looks at the George W Bush's chances of re-election
- The Art of Evil
- Leni Riefenstahls career illustrated the power of the big lie, says Brian Winston; none more so than the one she endlessly retold about herself
Culture
- Lobster Soup
- by Padraig Reidy
- Funny Peculiar
- by Martin Rowson
- A view from the left
- by Jim Herrick
- Groucho's elephants
- by Jonathan Derbyshire
- Superior Sniggers
- by Julian Baggini
- More sex with boys
- by Sally Feldman
- Gore blimey!
- Andrew Tudor shudders at the latest horror
- Raw Material
- Jeremy Stangroom goes down to the woods with AS Byatt
- Menocchio Uncowed
- Ian Duhig, for New Humanist
- Writers Talk
- Frank Jordans talks to author Karel van Loon
Columns
- Here's one I made earlier...
- Simon Hoggart on the making of modern magic
- A word from our sponsor
- Laurie Taylor is startled by his mail bag
- The future of journalism
- Paul Barker can see change coming
- None of our business?
- Editorial