7 June 1999

I found the Serbs' blind spot

By Lindsey Hilsum

In Belgrade, Lindsey Hilsummeets well-educated, middle-class Serbs who don't believe the war in Kosovo has anything to do with them

Brits should be more like Italians

By Carla Powell

There are many lessons to be learnt from the creators of the dolce vita, writesCarla Powell

We want fettucine, not baked beans

By Mark Leonard

Expats are bringing the good life across the Channel to Britain

Apartheid and other tourist trails

By Christopher Hope

Visiting Soweto reminds Christopher Hopeof how much, and how little, has changed in South Africa

What Spitting Image did for Hague

By John O'Farrell

Political satire isn't going to change the world, but John O'Farrell believes the Tory leader wouldn't be where he is today without the help of comedians

A day in the life of a grass-roots Tory

By Duncan Parrish

Still shell-shocked and wounded, Conservative activists are using the European elections to rally the troops. Duncan Parrish infiltrated their ranks

Buy girls and keep Castro in power

By George Lucas

Cuba is the new tourist destination. But every visitor's dollar reinforces Fidel's dictatorship

New Media Awards

By Bill Thompson

Nominations for the New Statesman's New Media Awards closed on 1 June. Sean French and Thom Cooper review two of the nominated sites, upmystreet.com and CrisisWeb, while Bill Thompson profiles Eva Pascoe, competition judge and e-commerce advocate.

Angry bull takes on ears of rice

By Jeremy Gross

Indonesians face their first democratic election since 1965. Jeremy Grosson the hard choices

Cricket World Cup - What do you expect? John Major's twin is in charge

By Simon Heffer

Diary

Annabel's Big Thing was her best-selling video, Annabel Cheong's Biggest Ever Gang Bang

By Francine Stock

Paul Routledge

By Paul Routledge

No one is more titillated by the tabloids than those who get all righteous describing, in juicy detail, what they write

By Suzanne Moore

Despite the nightmares of tabloid honey-traps, politicians' marriages are just as stable as others'

By Cristina Odone

Kill them all, said the boss. So said, so done

By Darcus Howe

Being remembered can mean being distorted. But that's better than being forgotten

By Sean French

This England

Media

Death of our moral guardian: where has journalistic integrity gone?

By Charles Glass

Media

I rounded off my wedding day in style by running over the best man

By Laurie Taylor

Competition - Win a bottle of champagne