16 August 1999
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Cover story
Don't ignore the core, Tony
Labour may not need the votes of the poor to get re-elected, but it is dangerous to abandon traditional principles, warns Frank Field
Features
No more coasting, Charlie
Jackie Ashley - Westminster
The secret policemen's plot
Russia's internal politics are fuelled by greed. Will Boris Yeltsin's successor end the corruption that is now rife, or will he become an accomplice, asks John Lloyd
Chuck out your property supplements
The housing market may be in the grip of a 1980s-style boom, but Simon Heffer urges restraint on those who want to avoid the subsequent crash
Why I'm no longer a nationalist
For the best and brightest, Britain is too small a stage on which to waste their talent. This is why we will become pro-Europeans
Time for a New Deal for Black Britain
Labour consistently sends out the wrong signals on race and ethnicity. Yet it could so easily effect real change, argues Gavin Mensah-Coker
Psychobabble that shields the seriously selfish
We're taught that self-esteem is essential to our happiness. Not necessarily
Regulars
Arts & Culture
Screen test
Whither British cinema after The Full Monty and Notting Hill? Jonathan Romney reads the runes of the Edinburgh Film Festival
Road to nowhere
Design - Hugh Aldersey-Williams bemoans a lack of radical thinking about the motor car
Lost in music
Rock - Richard Cook on the frustrating legacy of the singer Tim Buckley
Past glories
Classical - Dermot Clinch hears the seductive early music of the Catalan Jordi Savall
Propaganda value
Art - Jane Jakeman on the politics behind
an exhibition of royal Persian paintings
Television
Real Liffe
Television - Andrew Billen follows the mixed fortunes of the London Futures Exchange
Books
Sons of their fathers. When the excitable, reckless Churchill engaged the cautious, clear-headed Chamberlain in an epic struggle for the Tory leadership, they were also fighting for family pride
Burying Caesar: Churchill, Chamberlain and the Battle for the Tory Party
Graham Stewart Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 533pp, £25
ISBN 0297818317
Sugar and spice
Renegade or Halo2
Timothy Mo Paddleless Press, 478pp, £17.99
ISBN 095241936X
Tout compris
France in the New Century: Portrait of a Changing Society
John Ardagh Viking, 800pp, £20
ISBN 0670883603
Papa's progress
Hemingway: The Final Years
Michael Reynolds W W Norton, 416pp, £19.95
ISBN 0393047482
Flies by night
Time, Love, Memory: The Story of Genes and Behaviour
Jonathan Weiner Faber & Faber, 300pp, £18.99
ISBN 0571196322
Observations
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