
Volume 119 Issue 3 May/June 2004
Cover Story
- Happy Fathers' Day
- Jenni Murray welcomes an unexpected force for feminism
Columns
- Worthless values
- Simon Hoggart says politics must be personal
- Springtime for India
- Michael Binyon weighs up the votes
- Truly wonderful
- Pádraig Reidy learns to love himself and his mother
- The final cut
- Jodie Reed cautiously applauds new legislation against a cruel cultural practice
- Fighting talk
- Laurie Taylor takes a walk on the wild side
- The scandal of our time
- Editorial
- Where the atheists roam
- Christopher Duva longs for a godless homeland
Features
- War on error
- Stuart Sim argues we must fight fire with reason
- Escape from Fallujah
- Jo Wilding is in Iraq as part of a humanitarian effort working with traumatised children. She ended up escorting ambulances to hospitals in the besieged town of Fallujah. Here she tells of her departure from the city as US troops moved in to crush the Iraqi revolt, and her terrifying kidnapping by local mujahedeen
- What's so funny about cross-dressing?
- Our attitude towards transvestism says more about us than we realise, writes Charlotte Suthrell
- Learning to fly: Laurie Taylor interviews Ralph Steadman
- Ralph Steadman tells Laurie Taylor how he became such a bother
- Market of opinions
- The founder of the Gallup Organisation once said: "I could prove God statistically." How much should we trust these pollsters, asks Frank Jordans
- Panic in the streets
- Bill Durodie wonders what makes us all so anxious
- Take it on the chin
- Having banned the wearing of Muslim headscarves in schools, the French government is now considering excluding beards if worn for religious reasons. Sally Feldman wonders what other reasons there might be
Culture
- Evolution with primates
- Mark Pagel isnt just a third chimpanzee
- The Moral of the Tale
- Andrew Tudor on how cinema bears the Cross
- Counterfeit liberals
- David Bate analyses the surrealists dark view of humanism
- Double Exposure
- A poem by Fleur Adcock
- Secular songs
- Tony Russell sings the Blues
- Upper-crust manouvres
- Chris Paling joins high society
- Practical philosophy
- Jonathan Derbyshire enjoys a fresh look at Bertrand Russell
- Riot of metaphors
- Sally Feldman struggles with Jeanette Wintersons symbolic prose
- Good God!
- Julian Baggini on how modern French philosophy found God
- Soviet antisemitism
- Eliane Glaser learns about two extraordinary Russian matriarchs


