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48 Globalisation isn’t working
ROBERT H WADE

The era of liberal globalisation has produced poor economic results.

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68 Angela Carter’s beasts
PAUL BARKER

COLUMNS

8 Tillyard’s tales
STELLA TILLYARD

Africans selling bombolone.

Her fairy tales have proved enduring. They contain a black thread tying love to violence.

17 Washington watch
TUMBLER

COLUMNS

Gore won’t run in 2008.

58 Widescreen
MARK COUSINS

18 Matters of taste
ALEX RENTON

Fear of fakeness is endangering film.

My secret life as a Tesco shopper.

60 Private view
BEN LEWIS

27 Berliner brief
HUGH WILLIAMSON

Are the yAas as good as the yBas?

Germans find Merkel soothing.

62 Musical notes
STEPHEN EVERSON

37 France profonde
TIM KING

Superbly unhistrionic Schubert. FICTION

France’s two-tier university system.

52 The Labrador fiasco
MARGARET ATWOOD

70 Cultural tourist
Nixon on stage. Plus Under the radar.

41 Out of Africa
RICHARD DOWDEN

In Africa age counts—too much?

A story of travellers lost in the wilderness ties me to my father near the end.

72 Smallscreen
DAVID HERMAN

42 Inefficient markets
PHILIPPE LEGRAIN

What’s wrong with football coverage. REVIEWS

Is stakeholder capitalism back?

64 John Bull’s small ideas
ROBERT SKIDELSKY

WEB EXCLUSIVES Gideon Rachman and Jason Cowley’s dispatches from the World Cup
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51 Brussels diary
MANNEKEN PIS

Scrapping Strasbourg.

Stefan Collini wittily refutes the claim that Britain has lacked intellectuals. But our culture has been inhospitable to the discussion of general ideas.

80 Notes from underground
DAN KUPER

66 Another problem of evil
VICTOR MALLET

London Underground’s World Cup.

FORTHCOMING David Rose explores new thinking about criminals Nicholas Humphrey reviews Niall Ferguson
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REGULARS

Nic Dunlop’s investigation into a prison commandant sheds light on the Cambodian holocaust.

4 Letters 6 News & Curiosities plus Enigmas & puzzles IAN STEWART 11 Numbers game THE CRUNCHER 78 The generalist DIDYMUS 79 The list

67 Charmless Hav
KEVIN RUSHBY

By updating her fictional city, Jan Morris offers a farewell to the purpose of travel.

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