The Spectator

22 March 2008

Features:

• Al-Qa’eda’s playground dare Fraser Nelson War on terror is frustrated by an enemy that is constantly mutating
• Pullman gives God a break A.S.H. Smyth The latest episode from His Dark Materials turns to politics
• Lessons from the miners’ strike Charles Moore Muslim moderates must deal with their own lunatic fringe
• Dom Hugh Gilbert’s lessons in holiness Mary Wakefield The dark horse tipped to lead the nation’s Catholics
• Mugabe is the Mobutu of our time Marian L. Tupy Both African tyrants wrecked their countries’ economies
• The final irony for the monks of T ibet Rod Liddle The international community’s appeasement of China