26 March 1999
Become a subscriber and save £££
Subscribe to the New Statesman for just £87 and receive a free gift.
From the Editor…
Welcome to the New Statesman website. Whether you are a new reader or an existing one - online or via the magazine - I hope you'll enjoy the great writing, fresh ideas and provocative debate that make the New Statesman Britain's award-winning current affairs weekly
Cover story
Eating people is wrong
"The taboo against cannibalism is the strongest we have - but even that needs to be looked at". Richard Dawkins interviewed
Features
Give every school an Oxbridge place
Peter Wilbyargues that, instead of fiddling around with Saturday classes for bright children, we should change the whole basis of university entry
Why I've no truck with truckers
The lorry drivers' siege of London reminded Wendy Holden of really bad seventies singles
The price of sitting on our hands
Nato air strikes in Kosovo are long overdue, writesMelanie McDonagh
Our Dad was no commie
Elia Kazan, who won an Oscar this week, bought his success by ruining the lives of others. They included the father of Amanda and Jonathan Foreman
Patten meets flint on the Falls Road
The former Hong Kong governor has to decide the future of Ulster's police force. But John Lloyd sees little hope of a non-sectarian outcome
Just who do they think they are?
The British think that they alone in the EU suffer identity problems. But on this at least, reports David Lawday, the French and Germans can compete
How Mecca became a death-trap
This is the week of the hadj, the most sacred ritual in the Muslim calendar. Ziauddin Sardar implores the Saudis to avoid further disasters by making people walk
Europe: what we really, really want
The Commission may be in trouble, but the EU dream can survive
Don't they know the war is over?
The left in El Salvador has just lost the presidential election. Jon Beasley-Murrayblames its failure to reinvent itself
Essay
The New Statesman Essay - All things to all accusers
Paul Barker tries to define "institutional racism" and discovers much confusion
Culture
A design for living
Most designers would rather stretch your body or cut off your legs than alter their creations. Hugh Aldersey-Williams asks them to consider the human factor
A muse denied
Art byJohn Henshall
American retro
Rock byRichard Cook
Poor devil
Classical by Dermot Clinch
Two tales of a city
Photography byCharles Darwent
Troubles at home
Theatre byDavid Jays
Books
New Labour's timid hearts and minds. In thrall to focus groups, tied to the Thatcherite status quo, fearful of strong opposition - even Anthony Crosland would have found this government too revisionist
Crosland and New Labour Dick Leonard (ed) Macmillan, 207pp, £14.99
Hungarian elegy
They Were Counted Miklos Banffy, translated by Patrick Thursfield and Kathy Banffy-Jelen Arcadia Books, 602pp, £12.99
The sun also sets
A History of Japan: from stone age to superpower Kenneth G Henshall Macmillan, 264pp, £47.50 hardback, £16.99 paperback
Novel of the week
Ink John Preston Doubleday, 429pp, £12.99
Vitreous verse
Midnight Salvage: poems 1995-1998 Adrienne Rich W W Norton, 75pp, £14.95
Commentary - Martin Amis ate my novel
Gareth Creer smells a conspiracy to keep first novelists out of the review pages











