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10 May 1999

From the Editor…

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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

Arts & 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

Times of trial

Television

Taste sensations

Food

Vodka with Vitaly

Drink

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

Observations

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