29 January 1999
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Cover story
No fun, please, I'm new Labour
An invite to No 10 may be the sexiest ticket in town, but elsewhere there's nothing remotely social about socialists, laments Wendy Holden
Features
Ulster: is peace now worse than war?
With the IRA determined not to give up its arms, John Lloyd fears that the Good Friday Agreement will be dead before its first anniversary
Driven, even in his own lunchtime
Amanda Platell reveals a (quite) nice side to David Montgomery, the deposed Mirror boss
RIP Blair's Project, but it died long ago
Ashdown's departure shows that the dream of party realignment is over
Why can't they be grateful?
Kevin Maguireimplores the unions to drop the victim culture and see what they have gained from Labour
Vote Labour for a jollier life
More riverside cafes, later pub closing hours: Mark Leonardsuggests that ministers can push more cheerful themes than electoral reform
When first-world man met third-world boy
Jeremy Seabrookpaid Jun's college fees but declined sex in return. Now he questions his own motives
She was dreadful, but only MS was to blame
Andrew Stephendefends Jacqueline du Pre's siblings against charges of sullying her memory
Essay
The New Statesman Essay - The indispensable Englishman
Tom Paine has never been widely honoured in his own land, probably, thinks Neal Ascherson, because he was an enemy of irrational authority
Interview
The New Statesman Interview - Rhodri Morgan
Wales's very own La Pasionara, full of flash and fire, defies the Labour machine and takes on Tony Blair's man
Culture
In the picture
Should photographs be judged on who takes them? Charles Darwentvisits two exhibitions to see for himself
Screen writer
Music
Articles of faith
Art 1 byZiauddin Sardar
Poetic licence
Film byDavid Jays
Double entendre
Art 2
Books
The long retreat from principle. "New Labour is not Labour renewed. It is Labour rejected, renounced. It is a negative. New Labour is, and is meant to be, Not Labour" - a former moderniser delivers his verdict
Mandy: the unauthorised biography of Peter Mandelson Paul Routledge Simon & Schuster, 302pp, £17.99
Echoes of loss
Vertigo: the making of a Hitchcock classic Dan Auiler Titan Books, 220pp, £19.99
What if . . .
Fortune Is A River: Leonardo Da Vinci and Niccolo Machiavelli's magnificent dream to change the course of Florentine history Roger D Masters Simon & Schuster, 278pp, £17.50
Footfalls to boot
No Author Better Served: The correspondence of Samuel Beckett and Alan Schneider Maurice Harmon (editor) Harvard University Press, 486pp £21.95
Home and away
The Leper's Companion Julia Blackburn Jonathan Cape, 216pp, £14.99 This Place You Return Kirsty Gunn Granta, 200pp, £9.99
Bomber Harris
The Birth of the Cell Henry Harris Yale University Press, 212pp, £20
