Friday 29 August 2008

 

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Features

The author of His Dark Materials talks to A.S.H. Smyth about the latest episode in the saga in which he turns towards politics — with a nod to The Magnificent Seven along the way

Here’s how McCain can beat Obama to the White House

Here’s how McCain can beat Obama to the White House

The acclaimed young Republican writer, Reihan Salam, says that McCain can win the presidency if he appeals relentlessly to the non-college-educated white middle class, pursues family-friendly tax reform and stands for global peace through American strength

Beijing Notebook

Beijing Notebook

Boris Johnson recalls his recent jaunt to China on the occasion of the Olympic games

Our obsession with paedophilia is more dangerous than Gary Glitter’s return

Our obsession with paedophilia is more dangerous than Gary Glitter’s return

Rod Liddle says that the hunt for this foul child molester is the symptom of an unhealthy and disproportionate fixation that has spawned all sorts of absurd rules and regulations

Confessions of a travelling non-dom

Confessions of a travelling non-dom

O’ar Pali says it isn’t easy being on planes next to strangers all the time — and you quickly find there are a series of character types, dying to tell you about themselves

Arts

Senior moments

New Tricks (BBC1); Mutual Friends (BBC1); Masterchef: the Professionals (BBC1)

That was the year that was

That was the year that was

1968: The Year of Revolutions (BBC Radio 4); The Golden Notebook (BBC Radio 4)

Books

The peculiarities of a realist

Fine just the way it is: Wyoming stories by Annie Proulx

On home ground

Neil Clark on Cyril Hare’s Tragedy at Law, first published in 1942.

Style & Travel

Acropolis now

Acropolis now

Henry Sands says Athens’s new museum is missing its Marbles

Sitting on a rocket

Sitting on a rocket

Henry Sands goes powerboating in Malta

In this week's issue

Here’s how McCain can beat Obama to the White House

The acclaimed young Republican writer, Reihan Salam, says that McCain can win the presidency if he appeals relentlessly to the non-college-educated white middle class, pursues family-friendly tax reform and stands for global peace through American strength

Reihan Salam

Beijing Notebook

Boris Johnson recalls his recent jaunt to China on the occasion of the Olympic games

Boris Johnson

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