Selection of articles from the British Weekly

Features
Chávez: From hero to tyrant
"El Presidente" was returned to power on a wave of popular support after the failed coup of 2002. But now his divisive policies are turning friends into enemies. Some claim his strident rhetoric risks provoking civil war.
Alice O'Keeffe reports from Caracas

Ming: no deal unless . . .
As he tries to face down the discontent in his party over his leadership, the Liberal Democrat leader reveals to our political editor, Martin Bright, his terms for a future coalition

Quiet man starts noisy discussion
The right was crying out for a family policy. Was IDS the man to draft it?

Battle for Pakistan's soul
The siege of the Red Mosque in Islamabad has come to a bloody end - but the struggle between the Pakistani state and the jihadists can now only escalate

How we can rid Britain of violent extremism
Terrorism does not exist in a vacuum. What must be addressed is the political ideology of Islamism that inspires it

How big money seduces Oxford's brains
Champagne parties? £800 a week for a summer job? These are the kind of lures the banks are throwing out to ensure they get the cream of Britain's brightest students.

Regulars
Campbell’s compelling nuclear secret
Hidden away in the diaries of Tony Blair's right-hand man is a revealing admission that one of the key components of the controversial Iraq War dossier was spun out of all recognition. Martin Bright and Chris Ames report

A high price of wealth
Observations on Ireland

Mountains of the mind
Observations on Northern Iraq

Still waiting for answers
Observations on Lockerbie

No war, no terror, just a group of misfits

A paper that might even deserve Murdoch
His $5bn move for the Wall Street Journal provoked outrage and a desperate rearguard action, but the daily hymn-sheet of the free market was hardly in a strong position to complain

From Guantanamo to worse
Much as the prisoners want to leave the gulag, repatriation could take them to a far worse situation

Arts & Culture
Dreaming a continent
The European project will wither and die if it does not place culture and the arts at the heart of its identity, writes the legendary film-maker Wim Wenders

Masterminded by Muggles
Harry Potter has amassed 12 hours of screen time, but real magic eludes him Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (12A) dir: David Yates

Clean up your act, Courteney
American TV is in poor health, on the evidence of this dull and preachy drama Dirt Five US

Taking back the airwaves
Galloway's fiery rhetoric proves that left-wing talk shows can attract listeners
George Galloway TalkSport

Don't blame the poor
Poverty does not provoke terrorism, as three experts show