15 January 1999
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Cover story
A slight and delicate minister?
If Robin Cook is to be an effective Foreign Secretary, he must put past failures behind him
Features
Blunkett accepts schools for profit
Ministers hoped that the private sector would give money to education for altruistic reasons. At last, they've grasped the reality, reports Francis Beckett
It's work, Jim - but not as we know it
Ralf Dahrendorf argues that the government's welfare reform policies may be undermined by a revolution in the labour market
How the left went west
You thought Islington was the new Labour heartland? Wrong. Giles Corenexplains the lure of Notting Hill
Don't try to control everything
Matthew Taylor argues that ministers must encourage the public sector to take risks
Special Report - Are we better off as laggards?
The Chancellor is obsessed with the productivity gap between Britain and other leading industrial nations. Is his anxiety misplaced, asks Caroline Daniel
The dark side of the nuclear family
Children suffer chronic illness because grandfathers were exposed to radiation
Some queer goings-on in the trenches
The army was a happy hunting ground for gays during the Great War, writesA D Harvey
Culture
A matter of life and death
A meditation on art and ethics, or Hollywood at its most sentimental?James Hall ponders the true colours of Vincent Ward's What Dreams May Come
Welsh terrier
Rock
Winter warmer
Theatre
Sister act
Film 1
Czech point
Film 2
Books
A spin around the axis of greed. The tycoon who helped destroy the pound on Black Wednesday has written a fierce polemic condemning the very system that he exploited so ruthlessly to earn billions.
The Crisis of Global Capitalism George Soros Little, Brown, 304pp, £17.99
Fight the power
I'm a Little Special: A Muhammad Ali Reader Gerald Early (editor) Yellow Jersey Press, 299pp, £16
The Darwinian lie
Darwinism Today (series editors Helena Cronin and Oliver Curry) Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £4.99 each Divided Labours Kingsley Browne, 70pp The Truth About Cinderella Martin Daly and Margo Wilson, 68pp
Novel of the week
Glamorama Bret Easton Ellis Picador, 482pp, £16
Poetry - Banging the anvil of words
Lavinia Greenlaw recalls how a $2,000 grant uncovered a world of unknown talent
