28 June 1999

From the Editor…

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Cover story

Buy your home and kill a job

Andrew Oswald argues that all the usual explanations for unemployment are completely wrong

Features

Now the Serbs need our help

We have got it wrong again. Kosovo should have many more troops

Who will now master the universe?

John Lloyd meets a Serb agent, close to the Russians, and learns that the world is newly and dangerously divided

Why I hate dinner parties now

You're middle-aged and out of a job. So you're a nobody, finds Tony Rennell

The French exception is on a roll

Lionel Jospin has snubbed the Third Way - with excellent results, writes David Lawday

An open letter to new labour

Please stop patronising us. Anthony Barnett implores ministers to stop treating all their supporters as though they were circus horses

Once more, we are learning to die in public

A cardinal, a TV playwright and several columnists have started a new fashion in death. Peter Stanford reports

New Media Awards

Mark Sellman reviews the "Virtual Economy" website and Bill Thompson profiles Scott Aikens, Merit Award nominee

Culture

Mistaken identities

An Aids sufferer whose symptoms were fake. A Holocaust victim who was never in a death camp. What drives people to reinvent themselves so drastically? Rebecca Abrams measures the fine line between private lives and public fictions

Love bites

Rock byRichard Cook

Russian soul

Classical byDermot Clinch

China crisis

Film byJonathan Romney

No laughing matter

Television

Books

The lust for blood. What triggers landmark events in history is often fictions that people believe, not events that actually took place

Gentile Tales: The Narrative Assault on Late-Medieval Jews Miri Rubin Yale University Press, 266pp, £25

White lines

Novel with Cocaine M Ageyev Penguin, 204pp, £7.99

Marching boys

The Faithful Tribe: An Intimate Portrait of the Loyal Institutions Ruth Dudley Edwards HarperCollins, 288pp, £17.99

Fond, foolish Freddie

A J Ayer: A Life Ben Rogers Chatto & Windus, 402pp £20

Novel of the week

The Lone Woman Bernado Atxaga, translated by Margaret Jull Costa The Harvill Press, 120pp, £8.99

Ways of seeing

For the Relief of Unbearable Urges Nathan Englander Faber & Faber, 208pp, £9.99

Green heroes

The top ten

20 green heroes and villains: Heroes

Green villains

The top ten

20 green heroes and villains: Villains

Bjorn Lomborg

Cloud control

Cloud control

Interview

Omar Bin Laden

The NS Interview: Omar Bin Laden

James Macintyre

Brown at war

Like it or not, Brown’s a war leader

What if...

Hugh Gaitskell lived

What if... Hugh Gaitskell had lived

Will Self

On brands

We’re all with the brand

Film review

A Serious Man

A Serious Man (15)

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