February/March 2008 Archive 

Michael Kustow’s Booktopia Michael Kustow picks the eight books he’d take to the ends of the earth with him

Lock ‘em up! Mark Thomas explains why he is campaigning for the Department of Public Prosecutions to investigate Gordon Brown and other MPs for breaking their own law

School’s out for troops out Five years on from the invasion of Iraq, Lena de Casparis sounds out the views of some of those who were at school at the time – some who joined the big anti-war protests and some who didn’t

When the enemy is at the door Will Atkinson talked to Ken Loach

Letting people speak Siobhan McGuirk talks to Kim Longinotto about the growing interest in documentaries, their potential power to move and stir people and explores what kind of documentaries give people a sense of agency

The films we miss and why

Asylum Watch: Mind your language The cuts in teaching English for speakers of other languages (Esol) spell disaster for the poorest and most vulnerable members of settled immigrant communities, asylum seekers and refugees. Hazel Healy reports

Beyond bread and butter From postal workers to policemen, public sector workers have been linking their demands for decent working conditions with the quality of the services they provide and begun to create new alliances. They still need more imaginative thinking, says Gregor Gall, but does this approach provide a way forward for trade unions generally, in the private sector as well as the public

Pakistan after Bhutto With 160 million people, 600,000 soldiers and 50 nuclear warheads, what happens in Pakistan after Benazir Bhutto’s assassination has ramifications worldwide. Graham Usher reports from Islamabad

Planetary mythology Soundbite science and self-help manuals would have you believe that men and women can’t communicate. Deborah Cameron’s new book shows that the real issues are to do with power, writes Romy Clark

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