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40A matter ofrespect

DAVID HALPERN Tony Blair’s “respect”policies are founded on a growing anxiety among policymakers about levels of trust.

WITNESS 44Return to Tanzania

JONATHAN POWER I first visited Tanzania in 1964, to volunteer for Nyerere’s socialism. This year I returned—the country is still poor, but starting to grow. Is a dose of debt reliefand aid what it now needs?

PORTRAIT 50Jean-Paul Sartre

KEVIN JACKSON While I feasted on Sartre in the 1970s, the left bank scorned him. But on the centenary ofhis birth, the hypercerebral toad is making a comeback.

COLUMNS 10Matters oftaste

WILLIAM SKIDELSKY Fattening up at the Fat Duck.

20Washington watch

TUMBLER Anatol Lieven reshuffled.

53Brussels diary

MANNEKEN PIS That pesky “no”vote.

80Notes from underground

DAN KUPER Toking on the tube.

REGULARS 6Letters 8News & curiosities plus Enigmas & puzzles IAN STEWART 13Am I missing something? 14Numbers game THE CRUNCHER 78The generalist DIDYMUS 79The list

arts&books

CULTURAL TOURIST 70Why the Kirov outclasses the Bolshoi

IVAN HEWETT The Kirov continues to dominate in opera and ballet. It has a secret weapon. Plus news and listings.

FICTION 54Radiant heat

ALISON MACLEOD “No warmth is lost in the universe.”

REVIEWS 64The Ribena test

ERIK TARLOFF If I prefer Ribena to Château Lafite, does that make me a fool?No: it’s a matter of taste, as it is for art. That is John Carey’s thesis, and it’s wrong.

66Politics ofthe playground

JONATHAN HEAWOOD Why does British fiction portray politics as a childish squabble?BBC4’s new drama The Thick of It falls squarely into that tradition.

68Albanian witness

JULIAN EVANS Ismail Kadare, who charted the dictatorship of Hoxha’s Albania, reminds us that the Balkans is a storehouse of European literature.

COLUMNS 62Widescreen

MARK COUSINS Violence in Cannes.

72Private view

BEN LEWIS Depressed at the biennale.

77Smallscreen

DAVID HERMAN Decline of the People’s channel.

FORTHCOMING

Carlo Gébler looks for Desmond Hogan

Lisa Randall gets inside the Cern particle accelerator

Terence Kealey on Francis Bacon and the stirrings of science

David Elstein squeezes an apology out of the BBC

Will Davies wonders if Britain suffers from too much connectivity

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