12 July 1999
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Cover story
Were chimps the first socialists?
Even Machiavelli and Warwick the Kingmaker could have learnt a thing or two from apes. Matt Ridley explains
Features
New Media Awards
Full details of the winners in this year's New Statesman New Media Awards
Don't trust the IRA: it's a cod
David Trimble feels like a victim of Nazi aggression in the 1930s: if he doesn't give in, the tanks will follow. John Lloydthinks Blair should support him
Why holidays are bad for you
Our kitsch vacations are an indictment of our workaholic lifestyle, argues Emma Hartley
An old lefty marches off to war
John Elliottfinds that India's socialist defence minister is still a shop steward at heart
Why papa must still come first
The fathers' race brings out Neanderthal man even in new dads, writesCharles Jennings
How the CIA plotted against us
The NS made the left seem clever. Something had to be done, reports Frances Stonor Saunders
Regulars
Arts & Culture
Fields of dreams
The British countryside is in crisis, but we're not debating the real issues. Colin Tudge puts the case for a very different kind of agriculture to maintain our green and pleasant land
Highly strung
Jazz byRichard Cook
National anthems
Classical byDermot Clinch
Cause and effects
Film byJonathan Romney
Books
A sickness in the body economic. The contagion that has swept through financial markets in the developing world appears to be a mutant strain immune to traditional remedies
The Return of Depression Economics
Paul Krugman Allen Lane, Penguin Press, 176pp, £16.99
ISBN 039304839X
Victims of vitriol
Cruel Britannia
Nick Cohen Verso, 247pp, £16
ISBN 185984720X
Wit and wizardry
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
J K Rowling Bloomsbury, 317pp, £10.99
ISBN 0747542155
Doctor in charge
The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine
James Le Fanu Little, Brown, 490pp, £20
ISBN 0316648361
Novel of the week
Shadow-Box
Antonia Logue Bloomsbury, 318pp, £15.99
ISBN 0747539820
Albion's last hurrah
The British at War: Cinema, State and Propaganda 1939-45
James Chapman I B Tauris, 319pp, £29.95
ISBN 186064158X
Commentary - The long, slow demise of our literary culture
British fiction is moribund. Elizabeth Young administers the last rites
Observations
Letters to the Editor
New Statesman readers give their views - see what they said and find out how to contribute yourself by going to our letters pages
