6 September 1999
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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
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Primary Tartan
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Grassroots
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Arts & 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
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
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