10 May 1999
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Cover story
New Labour's secret godfather
Charles Leadbeater discovers that Blair and Brown owe a surprising debt to a Tory guru of the 1970s, but warns that they must learn from his failures
Features
Why partition is no good for Kosovo
Melanie McDonagh, after visiting the Balkan camps, implores British pundits to listen to the refugees before they come up with peace plans
Asylum Bill - A refugee's fight to get a shave
Nick Cohen continues his series on the asylum bill
Prepare ye the way of the Blair
John Lloyd finds that the PM's philosophy, though mocked at home, wins followers abroad because it tackles the large questions of our age
At last, India's imperial phase draws to a close
Fragile coalitions are the sign of a nation that is no longer governed by an elite
Essay
The NS Essay - How generals help the pacifists
History shows that battlefield disasters rather than peace rallies or pamphlets give wars bad reputations
Interview
The New Statesman Interview - Alan Duncan
One of Hague's closest allies admits it: the Tories are incoherent and have to get back to the drawing-board
Culture
Mirror, mirror
A prisoner of Victorian conventions, Clementina Hawarden sought her expression in photography. The results, as Charles Darwentdiscovers, were both frightening and quite possibly fatal
Slav labour
Film byJonathan Romney
Spirit of Birdland
Jazz byRichard Cook
Grief encounter
Music byDermot Clinch
Books
Modernity and its discontents. J G Ballard has never staked out a political position. But his fiction foresaw a world in which television images of fame and death were to become all-powerful
Crash: David Cronenberg's Post-Mortem on J G Ballard's "Trajectory of Fate" Iain Sinclair, British Film Institute Modern Classics, BFI Publishing, 122pp, £7.99
Sex in the shires
Score! Jilly Cooper Bantam Press, 608pp, £16.99
Step forward, Sir Red
Turn Again Livingstone John Carvel Profile Books, 328pp, £6.99
Combat zone
Tomcat in Love Tim O'Brien Flamingo, 347pp, £16.99
Hubristic Hitch
No One Left To Lie To: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton Christopher Hitchens Verso 122pp, £12
Into battle
Nor Shall My Sword: The Reinvention of England Simon Heffer Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 133pp, £12.99
Spring paperbacks
Literary editor's recommendations
Commentary - An overnight success, me?
The multi-million-selling concept thriller writer David Baldacci attacks literary jealousy
