30 August 1999
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Cover story
Gordon Brown, the great feminist
The Chancellor champions a fiscal-led feminism that is unsentimental about marriage and hails work as women's refuge from patriarchy
Features
A photo with auntie is not enough
Westminster - Kirsty Milne
Business takes Blunkett for a ride
Half-price entrance to aquariums and free tickets to a water park: is that the best private enterprise can do for education action zones? By Francis Beckett
The strange dearth of dead women
Obituaries today reflect a past where women stood by their men
A just war also has its dark sides
In Kosovo, the victims have turned oppressors. Why are we surprised? asks Melanie McDonagh
Not such a fashionable war
Aid workers in Angola claim it is one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world. So why is the west so slow to move? Antara Dev Senexplains
Why are Londoners all the same?
There's life and fun beyond the capital, writes Ruth Pitt, who found both in Leeds
A guru for those who don't trust gurus
He hates new-age nonsense, so why does Tim Lottwant us to read a bearded, bongo-playing Zen Buddhist?
Essay
The New Statesman Essay - Why the French really are different
Andrew Jackon the nation that always insists on being an exception
Culture
More sex, please, we're British
Attitudes to pornography are changing, but try telling that to Labour. Laurence O'Toole suggests it's time Jack Straw abandoned the missionary position
Hail Mary
Music - Richard Cook on a soul superstar
Left in the lurch
Design - Hugh Aldersey-Williams uncovers a sinister plot
Film
Performance art
Film - Jonathan Romney on the Spanish director Pedro Almodovar's return to form
Books
A living monument. Self-indulgence is all very well when celebrating the bicentenary of a national hero, but a more analytical approach makes a better biography
Pushkin's Button Serena Vitale, translated by Ann Goldstein and Jon Rothschild Fourth Estate, 398pp, £16.99 ISBN 1857029356 Collected Stories Alexander Pushkin Everyman, 608pp, £10.99
Twitching curtains
Park and Ride: Adventures in Suburbia Miranda Sawyer Little, Brown, 310pp, £14.99 ISBN 0316645753
The axeman cometh
As We Know It: Coming to Terms with an Evolved Mind Marek Kohn Granta, 326pp, £19.99 ISBN 1862070253
Bitter sweet
The Great Ideas Suzanne Cleminshaw Fourth Estate, 312pp, £14.99 ISBN 1857029089
Poor wars
Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues Paul Farmer University of California Press, 389pp, £22.95 ISBN 0520215443
