08 January 1999
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Cover story
Stuff the millennium
Ziauddin Sardarrefuses to celebrate a thousand years of invasion, conquest, looting and slaughter
Features
If these shadows have offended . . .
Peter, Geoffrey, Charlie: the stage is littered with bodies. Steve Richards tells the inside story of new Labour, Act I
Fear and loathing on the left
Why are Labour governments, from Attlee to Blair, always so riven by personal animosities? Andrew Marr tries to explain
For he was a jolly good fellow
Westminster should mourn Charlie Whelan's departure, argues Patrick Hennessy
Women are pushy, men ambitious
A survey claims that for women at the top success "just happened". Wrong, says Nicci Gerard
Triumph of the men with facial hair
The euro has failed to cause a technological meltdown in the City, laments Phil Collins
My non-part in David Owen's plot
Peter Kellner reveals the surprising names of people he didn't join in an anti-euro campaign
The silence of the lambs
We must learn to talk about the pitfalls of a consumer society if we are to help eastern Europe
Good friends slip on a banana skin
Iraq is not the only target for US sanctions; so is Britain, at least as far as sheep's milk, candles and folding cartons are concerned. Stephen Bates explains
The case of the missing thumbprint
The "Hyde Park bomber" has become a landmark for British justice, reports Bob Woffinden
The welfare state lives on (alas)
You think redistribution is doomed? Cheer up. Irwin Stelzer, lover of the free market, sees (to his regret) hope for the left
Even the Queen Mum was spiked
Ted Harrison came up with a simple ruse to confirm his suspicions about the bureaucracy that is stifling Radio 4
King Leopold lives, and his name is Mugabe
European leaders used to squabble over the Congo; now, it's African leaders, reports Christina Lamb
Essay
The New Statesman Essay - Raise St George's standard high
Richard Weightwants the left to support an English UDI from the rest of Britain
Interview
The New Statesman Interview - Michael Foot
"Clinton's bombing of Khartoum was scandalous. It was improper of the British government to support him"
Culture
Enabling acts
Hugh Aldersey-Williamslooks at new designs for the disabled, while John Henshall views the work of a community of artists with learning difficulties
Love story
Film
Sounds of discontent
Music
Stage trials
Theatre
Books
The ghost in the machine. What happens in the brain when we remember? A new study of trends in neuroscience attempts to unravel one of the mysteries of consciousness
Memory Patricia Fara and Karalyn Patterson (editors) Cambridge University Press, 207pp, £17.95
Dangerous victims
Scripture Politics: Ulster Presbyterianism and Irish Radicalism in the late 18th Century I R McBride Oxford University Press, 275pp, £35 Anti-Catholicism in Northern Ireland, 1600-1988 John D Brewer with Gareth I Higgins Macmillan, 336pp, £47.50 hardback, £16.99 paperback
Anarchy in the UK
The Murray Bookchin Reader Janet Biehl (editor) Cassell, 256pp, £45 hardback, £14.99 paperback The Politics of Social Ecology: libertarian municipalism Janet Biehl Black Rose Books, 204pp, £35 hardback, £11.99 paperback
The patent of life
The Biotech Century Jeremy Rifkin Gollancz, 288pp, £15.99
Commentary - Secret lives, rotting books
Alexander Pushkin was born 200 years ago this year. Hugh Barnes reports from Moscow on a financial crisis that could lead to the destruction of the poet's prized manuscripts
Dysfunctional sitcoms
Birds of America Lorrie Moore Faber & Faber, 291pp, £9.99
