06 September 1999

From the Editor…

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Features

Now he must spin for himself

Kevin Maguire explores Alastair Campbell's bag of tricks and asks if the PM's press aide, long in the shadows, can survive the biographers' spotlight

The perils of the biotech century

Will genetic engineering one day go the way of nuclear power? Jeremy Rifkin thinks it should, but argues that we can still benefit from the new science

The sect that scares China's leaders

Falun Gong has 100 million members. Has the Communist Party, with 60 million, at last met its match?

Hang up the pitchfork and sell up

This farming crisis is for real, argues Leanda de Lisle. The countryside of the future will be managed by big business and inhabited by rich urbanites

How to end the nursing shortage

Eric Cainesargues that we should abolish not just junior doctors but nurses as well

A school for brainless, lazy toffs

Alexander Chancellorreveals the truth about Eton: it was never meant to excel academically

The mystery of the silent typewriter

Joseph Mitchell, a New Yorker journalist, became famous, not for what he published but because, in 30 years, he never wrote a word

The slow death of an ancient culture

New Statesman Scotland

From muddle and mess, a new politics

New Statesman Scotland - Only by going to the edge of chaos, the argument goes, can Scotland effect the deep-seated change it needs. Graham Leicesteris crossing his fingers

Siamese twins go their separate ways

New Statesman Scotland - The Scottish Parliament and the Scottish press are barely on speaking terms these days. But, argues Tom Brown, they still need each other

This Alba

New Statesman Scotland

Primary Tartan

New Statesman Scotland

Grassroots

New Statesman Scotland

Essay

The New Statesman Essay - Whatever happened to liberty?

Ralf Dahrendorf on the missing word in the Third Way speeches and pamphlets

Interview

The New Statesman Interview - David Trimble

"Intelligence sources tell us that the IRA is buying handguns for close-quarter killing." David Trimble interviewed

Culture

Just not so

Rudyard Kipling's detractors dismiss him as a mere apologist for Empire. But his latest biographer, Andrew Lycett, found a very different man, one whose ideas can still inform Britons' sense of themselves

Licking to the future

Design - Hugh Aldersey-Williams wouldn't swap the best of the Royal Mail's millennium stamps

Her own woman

Art 1 - John Henshall meets one of Britain's best young painters

Every picture tells a story

Art 2 - James Hall wades through a door-stopping study of Victorian painting

A traveller's tale

Film - Ziauddin Sardar on the screen portrayal of a Muslim Marco Polo

Copacetic

Television - Andrew Billen on a gripping account of postwar policing

Books

Monkey business. The Origin of Species changed man's conception of himself forever. So why, asks Mary Midgley, is Darwinism used to reinforce the arid individualism of our age?

Almost Like a Whale: The Origin of Species Updated Steve Jones Doubleday, 379pp, £20 ISBN 0385409850

Mired in history

A Star Called Henry Roddy Doyle Jonathan Cape, 342pp, £16.99 ISBN 0224060198

A-whoring we go

A Life of James Boswell Peter Martin Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 613pp, £25 ISBN 0297818090

Siege mentality

Ladysmith Giles Foden Faber & Faber, 366pp, £9.99 ISBN 0571197337

The road to ruin

Dubious Mandate: A Memoir of the UN in Bosnia, Summer 1995 Phillip Corwin Duke University Press, 268pp, £18.95 ISBN 0822321262 Yugoslavia: A History of Its Demise Viktor Meier, translated by Sabrina Ramet Routledge, 279pp, £50 hardback/£16.99 paperback Kosovo: How Myths and Truths Started a War Julie A Mertus University of California Press, 378pp, £34 hardback/£12.50 paperback

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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