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THE MAKING OF A TERRORIST by Shiv Malik

JUNE 2007

POLITICS ESSAYS ARGUMENT

FIDEL CASTRO’S DEATH REHEARSAL Bella Thomas

POLITICS AND THE ESSAY Jonathan Rée

WHY POOR COUNTRIES STAY POOR Paul Collier

The inside story of7/7 leader Mohammad Sidique Khan

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In this issue:

WILLIAM DAVIES What went wrong (and right) with tax credits?

MARK COUSINS on Danny Boyle’s cinema of rapture

DEREK BROWER Was John Browne really a business genius?

NICHOLAS CLEE on how technology is changing publishing

DAVID M C WILLIAMS What Irish immigrants have done for English culture

WILLIAM SKIDELSKY meets a grumpy rightwing novelist

BEN LEWIS “And Ialways did prefer German girls”

FICTION by Petina Gappah