Spectator articles from September 2006

Spectator archives from September 2006

Old New Labour.(Labour Party)
September 2, 2006... 'New, new, new, ' Tony Blair told a meeting of European socialist leaders shortly after becoming Prime Minister, 'everything is new.' Embarrassing at the time, that declaration now seems merely a distant and risible memory. For, after nine...

DIARY.(cricket)
September 2, 2006... Inevitably, at this time of year, it has been a fortnight dominated by cricket. It began in extraordinary fashion. The Oval, where I was working, became the scene of a unique event in the sport: the first time that a Test match had been...

Charles Kennedy's true legacy is the transformation of the Conservative party.(Charles Kennedy: A Tragic Flaw)(Book review)
September 2, 2006... Given the choice between a drunken Charles Kennedy and a sober Sir Menzies Campbell - to adapt the Times's famous comparison of George Brown and Harold Wilson - we now know that the Liberal Democrat high command chose the former. There were...

THE SPECTATOR'S NOTES.(background check)
September 2, 2006... Last week I discovered that I have to have two separate checks made on me by the Criminal Records Bureau. One is because I am a trustee of a charity which works with children. The other is because I sometimes serve at the altar at Mass and...

DIARY OF A NOTTING HILL NOBODY.(Diary entry)(Column)
September 2, 2006... MONDAY Sawubona! And what terrific feedback from our South African adventure. Although it was touch and go at first. The poor guy was obviously extremely nervous about meeting such an iconic figure. But Dave put Mandela immediately at his...

The greatest threat to civil liberties would be another atrocity like 9/11.
September 2, 2006... Five years after the 11 September attacks, Alan M. Dershowitz says we need a new intellectual paradigm to deal with the terrorist threat, and a range of modern security measures. If we fail, the risk is a clamour for true authoritarianism ...

'My dear, you of all people know history is relative'.
September 2, 2006... The BBC's Laura Trevelyan found others knew more about her famous ancestors than she did - until she went in search of the great dynasty of scholars and public servants My introduction to the legacy of my ancestors came rather late in...

My interview from hell with Lynn Barber.
September 2, 2006... Toby Young thought he could handle the legendary inquisitor, but reckoned without her conviction that he is borderline autistic and a 'perfectly monstrous' father 'So, ' said Lynn Barber, sitting down opposite me and switching on her tape...

He dared to speak the truth about BBC radio.(Michael Vestey)(Obituary)
September 2, 2006... Rod Liddle bids farewell to Michael Vestey, The Spectator's radio critic who died last week: a former BBC journalist who held the corporation and its left-wing rulers to account There were only two radio reviewers who ever ruffled the...

Ancient & modern.(old age)
September 2, 2006... The sixtysomething Mick Jagger is currently bringing tears of nostalgia to all eyes as he relives his glory days of 40 years ago, singing pop songs. In one respect, at any rate, Cicero would have applauded him, as he explains in his essay On...

Sorry, Matthew: I stand by what I wrote about our terrorism poll.(Matthew Parris)
September 2, 2006... Even the most perceptive and brilliant commentators have their blind spots. In the case of Matthew Parris, a giant of modern British journalism if ever there was one, it is an inability to appreciate the true extent of the threat posed by...

Privacy shouldn't be sold to the highest bidder.
September 2, 2006... How odd, says Michael Ashcroft, that the press devoted so little space to a new report on those who pry unlawfully into our private lives and sell what they find It is curious, is it not, that even after the arrest and subsequent charging...

Nothing but the truth.(Letter to the editor)
September 2, 2006... Sir: Rod Liddle suggests that the public are losing confidence in the police because Scotland Yard 'has developed a tendency, as night follows day, to change its story repeatedly and shiftily' ('Passengers won't mutiny on planes if they are...

Immigration's real effect.(Letter to the editor)
September 2, 2006... Sir: You say that cheap labour keeps interest rates down, and so must be beneficial (Leading article, 26 August). But this analysis is so simplistic as to be meaningless, since it ignores many other economic and social factors. We must consider...

Blame the banks.(Letter to the editor)
September 2, 2006... Sir: Allister Heath's article (Business, 26 August) says that borrowers should bear all the consequences of their actions and by implication the lenders should enjoy better protection. This might be true if borrowers had actively sought their...

How polls are fixed.(Letter to the editor)
September 2, 2006... Sir: Matthew Parris did well questioning the recent Spectator poll on terrorism (Another voice, 26 August). From my observation, questions in polls are inevitably framed to produce the result required. The classic example can always be seen in...

On beauty.(Letter to the editor)
September 2, 2006... Sir: I enjoy Olivia Glazebrook's film reviews partly because they do not always follow the established line. (For example, I went to see Confetti simply because, unlike almost every other film critic at the time, she recommended it. She was...

Apian idea.(Letter to the editor)
September 2, 2006... Sir: In last week's issue, Mr D.R. Grayshott had a very clever answer to the problem (raised in Mary Killen's excellent column) of floor-length chintz curtains in downstairs loos frequented by men. He suggested that a spider be painted on to...

What Cameron told Mandela about the township of Notting Hill.(David Cameron, Nelson Mandela )
September 2, 2006... Mr Nelson Mandela and Mr David Cameron have just met in South Africa. Mr Cameron must have learnt much. 'Nelson, great to meet you. We have much to talk about. But, first, there's something I've always wanted to ask you. How did you get by...

What great painting is all about.
September 2, 2006... Sensitive and sophisticated people, who love art and defend civilisation, now greet each other with the following exchange: 'Death to Picasso!' 'And long live John Singer Sargent!' The emergence of Sargent as the last great painter in...

Are these Spanish builders really fit to run Heathrow?
September 2, 2006... George Trefgarne thinks BAA's new owners, Grupo Ferrovial, are too busy juggling their debt portfolio to attend to the current crisis in Britain's major airports After the chaotic scenes of the past few weeks, with probably more than a...

At last, some good news from Iran: magic carpets.
September 2, 2006... Joanna Pitman explores the beauties of Tabriz Iran hardly counts as an 'emerging market' these days, even for the most adventurous stock-pickers. But there is one Iranian export that appeals to the most sophisticated investors - not oil...

The NHS may be 'in crisis', but it still works when you dial 999.(National Health Service, United Kingdom)
September 2, 2006... For the first time in my life I had to call an ambulance, because my mother was suffering from chest pains. It was a fascinating episode: so much so that my mother, when she was feeling a little better, accused me of actually enjoying it. The...

Seeds of wisdom and dissent.(The Bloodless Revolution: Radical Vegetarians and the Discovery of India)(Book review)
September 2, 2006... THE BLOODLESS REVOLUTION : RADICAL VEGETARIANS AND THE DISCOVERY OF INDIA by Tristram Stuart Harper Press, [pounds sterling]25, pp. 628, ISBN 000728924 . [pounds sterling]20 (plus [pounds sterling]2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 George Orwell was...

The self-made man as hero.(Imperium: A Novel of Anciet Rome)(Book review)
September 2, 2006... IMPERIUM by Robert Harris Hutchinson, [pounds sterling]17.99, pp. 403, ISBN 0091800951 Robert Harris is not an obvious enigma. The former Newsnight reporter and political journalist is candid in his Guardian columns about, for example, his...

A nation given a bad name.(Iron Kingdom)(Book review)
September 2, 2006... IRON KINGDOM by Christopher Clark Penguin/Allen Lane, [pounds sterling]30, pp. 777, ISBN 0713994665 . [pounds sterling]24 (plus [pounds sterling]2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 Thirteen years ago, I was driving with a German friend through the...

A long hike from China.(Shadow of the Silk Road)(Book review)
September 2, 2006... SHADOW OF THE SILK ROAD by Colin Thubron Chatto, [pounds sterling]20, pp. 362, ISBN 0701173637 . [pounds sterling]16.79 (plus [pounds sterling]2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 'T o follow the Silk Road is to follow a ghost, ' writes Colin Thubron...

When peace is a hawk not a dove.(Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland after Auschwitz: An Essay in Historical Interpretation)(Book review)
September 2, 2006... FEAR : A NTI -S EMITISM IN POLAND AFTER AUSCHWITZ by Jan T. Gross Princeton, [pounds sterling]16.95, pp. 303, ISBN 0691128782 . [pounds sterling]13.56 (plus [pounds sterling]2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 Researching the history of a destroyed...

Fairy tale horrors.(The Art of Drowning)(Book review)
September 2, 2006... THE ART OF DROWNING by Frances Fyfield Little, Brown, [pounds sterling]18.99, pp. 360, ISBN 9780316727624 . [pounds sterling]15.19 (plus [pounds sterling]2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 Rachel Doe is an accountant, good at her job, gauche and...

Through a glass, darkly.(Mothers and Sons)(Book review)
September 2, 2006... MOTHERS AND SONS by Colm Toibin Picador, [pounds sterling]12.99, pp. 310, ISBN 0330441825 In The Master, a fictional portrait of Henry James, Colm Toibin constructed a convincing and ultimately moving account of a man who craved - albeit...

When Britain backed apartheid.(Colour Bar)(Book review)
September 2, 2006... COLOUR BARby Susan Williams Allen Lane, [pounds sterling]25, pp. 399, ISBN 9780713998115 . [pounds sterling]20 (plus [pounds sterling]2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 'Does the bishop want to force me to live in sin?' The bishop was Dr Wand, head...

Angry young man.(Seminary Boy)(Book review)
September 2, 2006... SEMINARY BOYby John Cornwell Fourth Estate, [pounds sterling]15.99, pp. 402, ISBN 0007232438 . [pounds sterling]12.79 (plus [pounds sterling]2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 40With apologies to Antic Hay, if you can have biography and biology, why...

Alternative reading.(The Trailor Murder Mystery)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 2, 2006... THE TRAILOR MURDER MYSTERY (1846) by Abraham Lincoln In 1841 the young Abraham Lincoln was working as an attorney in Illinois. He became the defence counsel for three brothers named Trailor, who were accused of murdering an odd-job man for...

A right royal collection.
September 2, 2006... Queen Elizabeth had a passion for collecting art. Andrew Lambirth finds much to admire The best-known exchange between artist and royalty must be George VI's celebrated remark to John Piper, who had been painting the castle and surrounding...

Peter de Francia.(Brief article)
September 2, 2006... Peter de Francia is 85 this year and to honour the occasion Tate Britain has a token display in his honour, 11 drawings and four paintings (one triptych, 'The Emigrants', 1964-6, above), the majority from its collection. De Francia's eminence...

Ways with Wagner.(Richard Wagner)
September 2, 2006... Recently the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation interviewed me about some of my views on Wagner, as part of their featuring the first complete Ring cycle to be performed in Canada. In the course of the interview, I was asked how I would like to...

Middle-age complacency.(Reading Music Festival)
September 2, 2006... My nephew Tom has just returned from his first Reading Festival, 34 years since his uncle made his own pilgrimage to the event. When I tried to phone him to find out how he'd got on, his dad told me Tom was still asleep, and could offer...

It's a knockout.(Theater review)
September 2, 2006... Frost/Nixon Donmar Warehouse There's a moment towards the end of Frost/Nixon when the narrator, Jim Reston, launches an attack on television that is guaranteed to strike a chord with the entire metropolitan class. 'The first and greatest...

Bagpipes in our baggage.
September 2, 2006... These have been trying times for itinerant musicians. Anybody who had already built up a dislike for the way airport staff are entitled to treat their customers would have found the recent situation testing to the point of phobia. To be fair,...

Poetic valediction.(John Betjeman, bagpipes on plane, music festivals)
September 2, 2006... It is with great sadness that we heard of the sudden death of Michael Vestey on Friday. For more than ten years, he had been The Spectator's radio critic - indeed the first and only one. His column was perceptive, authoritative, witty,...

Pyjama politics.(The Sentinel )(Movie review)
September 2, 2006... The Sentinel 12A, general release During The Sentinel I scribbled a few pertinent comments in my notebook. I am looking at them now: 'Kiefer Sutherland looks better with sunglasses on'; 'the decor in the White House is HIDEOUS ';...

Criminal mindsets.(Sleeper Cell)(Television program review)
September 2, 2006... Since every mafiosi's favourite movie is Goodfellas and favourite TV programme is The Sopranos, I suppose similar rules apply to Islamic terrorists and Sleeper Cell (Channel 4). Probably, every Wednesday night secretive groups of sinister...

Just the ticket.(Bentley Azure)(Product/service evaluation)
September 2, 2006... There occurred recently in County Mayo a heartening demonstration of local democracy. Three Bentley Azures - the big 2.65 tonne convertible version of the Arnage - were parked in a restricted zone outside the excellent fish restaurant. Along...

Cause for complaint.
September 2, 2006... Gstaad On 4 July 1981, The Spectator published the following letter: Sir: I must take vigorous exception to Mr von Hoffman's revolting turn of phrase (20 June) when he dealt with the Israeli premier Mr Begin, to wit that the man was a...

Favourite fry-ups.(Column)
September 2, 2006... What could be more quaint, I thought, than a working-man's cafe in a converted signal box on the platform of a peaceful country railway station. Swallows swooped and soared above the shimmering rails. A fat bumble-bee browsed dreamily among the...

Under-age clubbing.
September 2, 2006... Imogen Edwards-Jones says that alpha mothers over-extend their children 'S o what classes does Allegra do?' asks my new supernanny as she unpacks her wheelie bag. 'Sorry?' I say, a little distracted. 'What's Allegra's schedule?' ...

No, thank you.
September 2, 2006... Geordie Greig laments the gradual demise of the bread-and-butter letter Just sometimes I wish I had A.A. Gill's balls. Well, maybe not literally, but certainly when it comes to thank-you letters. He doesn't do them. So he has none of my...

Hats off to Fez!
September 2, 2006... Jemima Sissons indulges in a whistlestop tour of Morocco Here I am in Algeciras, the gateway to Morocco. It is a pit of a place but people arrive or leave, they don't stay. Tired, hungover, and dehydrated after a two-day wedding in Majorca,...

A summer of shame.(performance enchancing drugs)
September 2, 2006... There occurs next week (8-12 September) a sobering little anniversary. Remember 12 months ago and that heady aura of innocent joy and optimism all around? At the end of an enthralling Ashes cricket series through the summer of 2005, England and...

We dare not fail in Afghanistan.
September 9, 2006... History teaches that wars begin when our enemies believe the price of aggression to be cheap, Ronald Reagan once observed - and, as so often, events eventually proved him right. On Monday, as we reflect upon the fifth anniversary of 9/11, we...

DIARY.
September 9, 2006... Living in east London, hotbed of multicultural strife, one tries to do one's bit for race relations. In my case, this involves smiling ingratiatingly at anyone of a different complexion to me: a policy that requires a near-permanent rictus grin...

Amid all the plots and letter campaigns, Brown quietly plans his future.(Gordon Brown )
September 9, 2006... Anyone who knows Gordon Brown will know that his disappearance from the public scene this summer had multiple reasons. Foremost was his desire to dote on his new son, which he did with his characteristic energy and passion. Add to this new...

THE SPECTATOR'S NOTES.(police raids at Jameah Islameah)
September 9, 2006... You could write the history of a culture through the changing uses to which its buildings are put. At the weekend the Jameah Islameah at Mark Cross, in East Sussex, was raided by police in connection with possible terrorist training camps. The...

DIARY OF A NOTTING HILL NOBODY.
September 9, 2006... MONDAY Oh dear. Mr Letwin has locked himself in the safe room and won't come out. His big policy launch with Mr Dorrell unveiling the party's new-found commitment to and admiration for public services completely ruined by Mr Redwood 'going...

This was the week the great New Labour civil war began.
September 9, 2006... Matthew d'Ancona says that the Prime Minister's power has now gone for good, no matter when he stands down formally. The Labour party will descend into a battle to define its future as Gordon Brown struggles to prevent a leadership contest ...

The best film ever made about the Windsors.(The Queen)(Movie review)
September 9, 2006... Patrick Jephson, Diana's former equerry and private secretary, says that 'The Queen' is a brilliant evocation of the days after the Princess's death Nearly 20 years ago, as a nervous new-boy equerry to the Princess of Wales, I was in...

My audience with a Hezbollah commander.
September 9, 2006... Rani Singh is the first journalist to have been smuggled into the notorious Central Jail in Kashmir. Here she gives her exclusive account of her meeting with the Islamist prisoners I'm focusing hard on the words of the three men in front of...

Our troops in Afghanistan have been betrayed.
September 9, 2006... Max Hastings, recently returned from Helmand province, says that the government has lied about the British army's task in Afghanistan: time is running out for the mission Nato's mission statement for its role in Afghanistan is an insanely...

Steve Irwin's death shows that Nature still has a few nasty tricks up her sleeve.
September 9, 2006... Rod Liddle says that the Australian wildlife expert was more than a hugely popular national stereotype: he gave the animal kingdom the chance to fight back It was not, in the end, a crocodile which did for Steve Irwin - something we might...

The spies who lie.(Letter to the editor)
September 9, 2006... Sir: I agree with Alan Dershowitz's broad sentiment that there has to be a balance between civil liberties and protecting the citizens of this country ('How to protect civil liberties', 2 September). However, such a balance relies on our...

Multiculturalism divides us.(Letter to the editor)
September 9, 2006... Sir: Rod Liddle sneers at British holidaymakers for being concerned about the behaviour of Asian males on a plane ('Passengers need to feel safe', 26 August), but it's the government, not ordinary Brits, who should take the blame for all this...

Champers with Betj.(Letter to the editor)
September 9, 2006... Sir: No mention in the Betjeman biographies (Books, 19 August) of his first live TV series in 1957. The Englishman's Home was a sevenpart series tracing the development of domestic architecture and beginning with mediaeval Berkeley Castle....

They would, wouldn't they?(Letter to the editor)
September 9, 2006... Sir: Barry Humphries is spot-on to have a go at 'I have to say' (Diary, 26 August). Even more annoying is the increasing and unnecessary use of 'would', often from the mouths of the police or other individuals briefly and bewilderingly placed...

Leitrim's finest.(Letter to the editor)
September 9, 2006... Sir: I beg to differ with Grey Gowrie's interpretation of the Seamus Heaney lines 'Like one of the Evans brothers out of Leitrim, / Demobbed, 'not much changed', sandy moustached and freckled/ From being, they said, with Monty in the desert'...

Barber's cut.(Letter to the editor)
September 9, 2006... Sir: Poor old Toby Young ('My interview from hell with Lynn Barber', 2 September)! It must be appalling to be tipped over the edge by such a rapier thrust as 'If your wife was kidnapped, would you pay the ransom?' I really don't know how...

In the Colombian mountains, I marvel at the graceful nerve of mankind.(Zip-wiring)
September 9, 2006... Zip-wiring is an activity no doubt available outside Colombia, but surely nowhere else is it so high or fast or far. A strong steel cable is strung from a tree on one hilltop to another tree on a slightly lower hilltop; a small cradle hangs...

A county palatine fit for a Queen.(Lancashire)
September 9, 2006... I am from Lancashire and have been enjoying a racy paperback on the place written by Charles Nevin (Lancashire: Where Women Die of Love). Some people are surprised to learn I was born in Manchester. It's true I have a posh southern accent, but...

Liquid assets: why water could become more precious than oil.
September 9, 2006... Matthew Vincent argues that soaring domestic and industrial water consumption is creating global shortages - and exciting opportunities for private investors It's in ever greater demand and increasingly short supply. It's becoming more and...

There's more to life than work.(employment)
September 9, 2006... 'The English disease' was a phrase once coined to describe our propensity to strike, but these days the national malady is our eagerness to work. We regard employment as the default mode of life, and leisure as a reason for guilt and remorse....

Kurdistan?s citadel of shopping: an unlikely site for a mini-Dubai.
September 9, 2006... It's got the heat, dust and ambition but not yet the cranes dotting every view. Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan region of Iraq, is fast rolling out a project to establish itself as a mini-Dubai. Both share the same underlying rationale: to...

Ingredients, ingredients, ingredients.(British food)
September 9, 2006... Prue Leith on how foreign chefs have taught us to take food seriously Growing up in South Africa, I ate the food of my British forebears: roasts and pies, milk puddings and boiled greens. At Christmas, in the height of summer, we drank...

The grapes of wrath.(Chateau Musar- winery)
September 9, 2006... On day 23 of the latest conflict in the Middle East, Serge Hochar, owner of Chateau Musar, Lebanon's most famous winery, was preparing for an afternoon's bridge in Beirut's Hotel Alexandre. In the hotel lobby, a group of stranded Gulf Arabs...

The perfect barbecue.(barbecue cooking)
September 9, 2006... Throughout this long summer the sweet acrid smell of charcoal and cooking meat has hung heavy in the air over London - and also the synthetic stink of gas burners, the sterile smell of factory-made marinades and batteryreared meat. It permeates...

Health food.
September 9, 2006... There exist in my cupboard many packets of dried, fibrous-looking mystery foodstuffs, most of them out of date. There are anonymous grains and seeds and some green lentils that are so old they have faded to sepia. Every so often I think about...

The continental drift.(The Culture of the Europeans)(Book review)
September 9, 2006... THE CULTURE OF THE EUROPEANS by Donald Sassoon Harper Press, [pounds sterling]30, pp. 1617, ISBN 0002558793 . [pounds sterling]24 (plus [pounds sterling]2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 The amazing thing, really, is that this has become a subject at...

Life on the brink.(The Inheritance of Loss)(Book review)
September 9, 2006... THE INHERITANCE OF LOSS by Kiran Desai Hamish Hamilton, [pounds sterling]16.99, pp. 324, ISBN 0241143489 The book opens on a note of deceptively light-hearted inconsequence: an isolated, decaying house in the foothills of the Himalayas, a...

Love in the land of Gaddafi.(In the Country of Men)(Book review)
September 9, 2006... INTHE COUNTRY OF MENby Hisham Matar Viking, [pounds sterling]12.99, pp. 245, ISBN 0670916390 . [pounds sterling]10.39 (plus [pounds sterling]2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 Childhood is God's gift to the novelist. Fiction thrives, not just on the...

Recent crime fiction.(Blood and Honey)(Fire Sale)(The Hidden Assassins)(The Spanish Game)(Time to Say Goodbye )(Book review)
September 9, 2006... Some years ago, Robert Wilson abandoned Africa and his alcoholic, deadbeat English detective-cum- debt-collector, Bruce Medway, for blockbuster thrillers set in Spain and Portugal. I viewed the move of location and the style of these big...

The Ugliest House.(Brief article)
September 9, 2006... They've done it up, his house, the ugliest In Hull: pink walls, pink carpets, lilac, Orange, purple, mauve all gone, floor stripped back To timber, altered to showpiece real estate. Some things remain: three glanced-at cabinets One...

The Windsor boys.(The Importance of Being Eton)(Book review)
September 9, 2006... THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ETON by Nick Fraser Short Books, [pounds sterling]12.99, pp. 227, ISBN 1904977537 . [pounds sterling]10.39 (plus [pounds sterling]2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 One of the most interesting things that have been written...

Thoughts, words and deeds.(The Emperor's Children)(Book review)
September 9, 2006... THE EMPEROR 'SCHILDREN by Claire Messud Picador, [pounds sterling]14.99, pp. 431, ISBN 0330444476 . [pounds sterling]11.99 (plus [pounds sterling]2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 This, Claire Messud's fourth book, is a splendid American novel,...

Leading orientalist or blethering ass?(Daughter of the Desert: The Remarkable Life of Gertrude Bell)(Book review)
September 9, 2006... DAUGHTER OF THE DESERT : THE REMARKABLE LIFE OF GERTRUDE BELL by Georgina Howell Macmillan, [pounds sterling]20, pp. 518, ISBN 1405045876 . [pounds sterling]16 (plus [pounds sterling]2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 Georgina Howell does not try to...

When Hungary set an example.(Twelve Day)(Book review)
September 9, 2006... TWELVE DAY S by Victor Sebestyen Weidenfeld, [pounds sterling]20, pp.340, ISBN 0297847317 . [pounds sterling]16 (plus [pounds sterling]2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 The Hungarian revolution of 1956 was a nationalist uprising in the grand heroic...

Broadening the British mind.(Stranger in a Strange Land: Encounters in the Disunited States)(Book review)
September 9, 2006... STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND : ENCOUNTERS IN THE DISUNITED STATES by Gary Younge The Guardian New Press, [pounds sterling]10.99, pp. 301, ISBN 1595580689 Gary Younge, a staff writer for the Guardian, arrived in New York in January 2003, to...