CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE
PHILIP BALL

is a science writer

is a writer and former petroleum engineer
RICHARD BARRY ROBIN BLACKBURN is an editor of the New Left Review and teaches at the University of Essex MARK COUSINS is the author of The Story of Film (Pavilion Books) MICHAEL COVENEY STEPHEN EVERSON

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is a theatre critic

COVER STORY

is writing a book on metaphysics and the mind

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Global intellectuals poll results

is a fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford University
JOHN GOLDTHORPE DAVID HERMAN has produced television programmes with Noam Chomsky, and is a regular contributor to Prospect G JOHN IKENBERRY

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For and against Chomsky
ROBIN BLACKBURN VS OLIVER KAMM

is a professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University is a former MP

ROBERT JACKSON OLIVER KAMM

is the author of AntiTotalitarianism: the Left-Wing Case for a Neoconservative Foreign Policy (Social Affairs Unit)

Is the world’s top public intellectual a brilliant expositor of linguistics and the US’s duplicitous foreign policy? Or a reflexive anti-American, cavalier with his sources?

ERIC KAUFMANN is a lecturer in politics and sociology at Birkbeck College TIM KING

is a writer living in France

JÜRGEN KRÖNIG is British correspondent for Die Zeit

OPINIONS

ESSAYS

10 India joins the west
MARK LEONARD

24 States of development
MATTHEW LOCKWOOD

is author of Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century (4th Estate)
MARK LEONARD BEN LEWIS

Last month saw a small revolution.

presents BBC4’s Art Safari is deputy editor

ALEXANDER LINKLATER

10 Meadow is innocent
RAJ PERSAUD

of Prospect is the author of The State They’re In (ITDG Publishing)
MATTHEW LOCKWOOD

Roy Meadow should not have been struck off the medical register.

Many have argued that the key to development in Africa is more financial aid and more democracy. But Africa’s real problem has been a lack of properly functioning states.

30 A weaker world 12 Angela’s hour
JÜRGEN KRÖNIG G JOHN IKENBERRY

is creative business editor of the Financial Times
GAUTAM MALKANI ALEX MCBRIDE LEWIS PAGE’s

is a criminal barrister

book Lions, Donkeys and Dinosaurs: Blundering and Waste in the Armed Forces will be published by William Heinemann in January 2006

Germany’s grand coalition has a decent chance of pushing reform.

Global and regional governance bodies are suffering a crisis of late middle age. Is this a legitimacy problem, or is US unilateralism to blame?

13 The new unionism
ERIC KAUFMANN

34 Critical clowns
MICHAEL COVENEY

RAJ PERSAUD is Gresham professor for the public understanding of psychiatry EDWARD SKIDELSKY

Northern Ireland’s recent violence reflects unionism’s modernisation.

is a writer living

in Sussex
IAN STEWART

15 Habermas vs the Pope
EDWARD SKIDELSKY

High culture and serious critics have become marginalised in the mass media. Critical clowns have stormed the citadel of Shaw, Tynan and Porter.

is professor of mathematics at Warwick University The Prince of the Marshes will be published in May 2006

The darling of the 68ers and Benedict XVI find their common ground.

38 Time for a deal
ROBERT JACKSON

RORY STEWART’s

16 Perpetuum mobile?
JOHN GOLDTHORPE

STELLA TILLYARD’s

next book A Royal Affair will be published in March 2006

Social mobility does not work as most people imagine.

Tony Blair’s final chance to leave a lasting mark on Britain’s relations with the EU is to trade in our rebate for a decisive reform of the CAP.

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WITNESS

44 Losing the south
RORY STEWART

When I was deputy governor of two southern Iraqi provinces last year, we tried to create a tolerant, modern society. Then the Islamic parties won most of the seats in the election—and the dream collapsed.

arts&books
70 The evolution of insanity
ALEXANDER LINKLATER

Sebastian Faulks’s new novel should be judged not by his earlier books, but by the quality of its ideas.

SPECIAL REPORT

50 Plugging the energy gap
RICHARD BARRY

COLUMNS

64 Widescreen
MARK COUSINS

Britain must start work on about 30 new power stations to stop the lights going out in 2025. Private companies now take the investment decisions, but can government help?

Three stages of cinema design.

72 Private view
BEN LEWIS

Deconstructing photography. COLUMNS

77 Musical notes
STEPHEN EVERSON

8 True stories
ALEX MCBRIDE

It was so good I walked out. FICTION

A barrister’s boo-boo.

56 Paki 18 Lab report
PHILIP BALL GAUTAM MALKANI

80 Cultural tourist
Canongate vs HarperCollins. Plus under the radar.

Can we predict earthquakes?

Don’t u b tellin any a us pakis dat we b pakis like our paki bredren from Pakistan.

42 Washington watch
TUMBLER

FORTHCOMING INTERVIEW Fran Abrams on bad behaviour in schools Michael Williams on Chris Patten Understanding the ten commandments by Robin Fox Alun Anderson interviews John Krebs on science and society
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Is George Bush boozing again?

62 Alan Hollinghurst 49 France profonde
TIM KING STELLA TILLYARD

There is no French Richard Dawkins.

Last year’s Booker winner reveals his favourite novel—and not much more. REVIEWS

55 Brussels diary
MANNEKEN PIS

Barroso’s a renegade Anglo-Saxon.

66 The enigma of simplicity
DAVID HERMAN

REGULARS

4 Letters 6 News & Curiosities plus Enigmas & puzzles IAN STEWART 11 Numbers game THE CRUNCHER 73 Classifieds 78 The generalist DIDYMUS 79 The list

Alan Bennett is a national treasure. The more complex he becomes, the more we love his plainness.

68 A new model army?
LEWIS PAGE

One of Britain’s finest generals hints at a radical reordering of the armed forces. Unfortunately, he only hints.

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