05 February 1999

From the Editor…

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Features

Play the game and make the money

Scandals in the Olympic movement; all English football's top men out of jobs. Mihir Boseasks why so many sports are so badly run

Trimble prepares for his final stand

John Lloydreveals that the Unionist leader has decided he cannot serve in a cabinet with the leaders of Sinn Fein

Work for us and get a free massage

Wouldn't you prefer an on-site beauty therapist, a Rover or free fruit to a trip on Concorde? Giles Corenasks if Jack Cunningham is getting the best perks

Why Einstein should rule the waves

George Waldensees, in plans for a new radio station, left-right unity against a soggy middle

Don't make the same mistakes

Ron Daviesargues that, if devolution is to succeed, both old and new Labour must do better

Police prefer to shoot the messenger

The Met's officers are trying to discredit the Lawrence inquiry, reports Brian Cathcart

Statistics to gladden the heart

More smokers, trees and cars: the latest social trends fill Paul Barkerwith optimism

A header and tailer comes to the end of the line

John Kirkaldytook on some casual work to make ends meet. He stepped into a labourer's hell

A codpiece and LSD experience

Michael McMahonfears that films are giving children the wrong idea about Shakespeare

Essay

The New Statesman Essay - Think, think and think again

Social equality, free health, strong defence: Anne McElvoywants Blair to slaughter more sacred cows.

Culture

Ill-defined notions

Diseases are not what they were, and nor are their symptoms. Ziauddin Sardar examines the bitter controversies surrounding ME and Gulf war syndrome

The Russians are coming

Theatre byDavid Jays

Northern lights

Jazz byRichard Cook

Road to Morocco

Film byJonathan Romney

War stories

Television

Books

From the margins to the centre. The English mistrust of ideas has allowed the influence of French thinkers to dominate academe and cultural journalism. Two new books reopen the old ideological wounds

The Burden of Responsibility: Blum, Camus, Aron, and the French Twentieth Century Tony Judt Chicago University Press, 196pp, £13.95

From the margins to the centre

The Word from Paris John Sturrock Verso, 256pp, £18

Girls just wanna have fun

Having None of It Suzanne Franks Granta, 196pp, £12.99

Africa dreaming

Country of My Skull Antjie Krog Jonathan Cape, 304pp, £16.99 The Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness Wole Soyinka Oxford University Press, 144pp, £16.99

Novel of the week

Sheer Blue Bliss Lesley Glaister Bloomsbury, 283pp, £15.99

Commentary - The end of the make-believe

Jason Cowley on V S Naipaul's death knell for the novel

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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