02 August 1999

From the Editor…

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Cover story

America says: never again!

After Kosovo, the US is wary of a humanitarian foreign policy. A Kissinger-style realpolitik may be on its way back

Features

Why I had Mandelson's life pulped

John Booth reveals the inside story of how a biography ended up in the shredder

Why the City likes Internet nonsense

Philip Collinsreveals how a firm that never makes a penny can be worth more than Sainsbury's

Chimps don't talk, but they do cry

Ignore the reports about chattering bonobos; language remains unique to humans. But animals can think and feel

No blacks, please, we're MPs

If you want a perfect example of institutional racism, try the House of Commons itself. Anthony Bevins reports

When Mary Poppins has a hairy chest

When Michael Durhamemployed a male au pair he found another side to sex discrimination

Essay

The New Statesman Essay - Stop building these grand palaces

The world is littered with useless new parliamentary buildings. Now the British are putting up even more. Paul Barkerrecommends the more modest approaches of the French and the Irish

Culture

Here be pirates

Is it real or is it digital? Ziauddin Sardar shows how Malaysia's shadow economy helps its citizens jump on to the postmodern consumerist merry-go-round

Fathers and sons

Jazz

Out of Africa

Blues

Ship shape

Design

Tall tale

Art

All for love

Television

Books

Inner exile

Child of My Time: An Englishman's Journey in a Divided World Mark Frankland Chatto & Windus, 214pp, £17.99 ISBN 1860560229

Buried treasure

Finding the Walls of Troy: Frank Calvert and Heinrich Schliemann at Hisarlik Susan Heuck Allen, University of California Press, 409pp, £27.50 ISBN 0520208684

Losing the plot

Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate Bob Woodward Simon & Schuster, 592pp, £20 ISBN 0684852624

Star wars

The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space from Dante to the Internet Margaret Wertheim Virago, 320pp, £14.99 ISBN 1860495273

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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