No. 1260 August 2009

PDF version Aug. 2009

• Cartoon: Free Lunch

• Cartoon:The Ire of the Irate Itinerrant

• Voice From The Back

• Greasy Pole: Jack Straw – getting to know you

• 50 Years Ago: Mr. Cousins Damp Squib

• Obituary: Paul Hannam

• Book Reviews

• Cooking the Books 2: Businessmen and opera-dancers

• Cooking the Books 1: Sharing with Shah

• Tiny (URL) Tips

• Pieces Together

• Material World: Exploitation in Uzbekistan

• Pathfinders:Trans-Human Socialism

• One brick at a time

• The penny drops

• Capital, Science Fiction and Labour

• Capitalism is bad for your health

• The power behind the shame

• Why we don’t need another Labour party

• Letters

• Editorial: Counting bodies