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Add up housing costs and average wages and £30k looks modest.

Review of 'The Autograph Man', Zadie Smith, Hamish Hamilton £16.99

The aims of fair trade face a hostile system.

Review of 'The Workers' and Peasants' State', eds. Patrick Major and Jonathan Osmond, Manchester University Press £15.99

By any standards it has been a bad month for Tony Blair. One of the strongest and most powerful groups of workers, the firefighters, threatened their first national strike since the 1970s, support for the anti-war movement continued to grow, and one of Blair's closest allies, Estelle Morris, chose to jump ship as incompetence and controversy piled more pressure on New Labour.

The Vietnam War still has the power to horrify.

Review of 'Striking Terror', eds. Robert B Silvers and Barbara Epstein, New York Review of Books £10.99

The brutal storming of a Moscow theatre by Russian forces last month led to the deaths of 117 hostages and all 50 hostage takers.

Pat Stack sees the sectarian roots of the Northern Ireland state showing through.

Review of 'Donnie Darko', director Richard Kelly

Most company boards ignore social and environmental issues - London Eye and British Airways debt problems - US Justice Department Loses Computers and Weapons

Your 'Alternative Dossier', (October SR) was a welcome demolition of the half-truths, fabrications and downright lies being used to justify slaughter in Iraq. It is essential we expose the hypocrisy of the warmongers at every opportunity.