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30 August 1999

From the Editor…

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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?

Arts & 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

Performance art

Film - Jonathan Romney on the Spanish director
Pedro Almodovar's return to form

Moment of truth

Television - Andrew Billen welcomes a play for today

Pet hates

Food - Bee Wilson worries about what we feed our domestic animals

Perfect in pink

Drink - Victoria Moore on the rehabilitation of rose

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

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