13 September 1999
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Cover story
Kids just say no to party politics
They care passionately about issues, but British teenagers today are deeply indifferent to politicians and their labels, reports George Lucas
Features
Babies can happen to nice girls, too
Denis MacShane reports that in his constituency unemployment and pregnancy are linked
We helped them descend into hell
As the people of East Timor face genocide at the hands of their Indonesian oppressors, the west seems to forget how this crisis began
Boris, blondes and big, big bucks
Don't ignore the corruption in Russia, advises Anne Applebaum. It's your money and some of it may have wound up in British bank accounts
I was too sexy for the BBC
Yes, there are still limits to what you can see on television: you must not get the idea that sex is pleasurable for its own sake. Rowan Pelling explains
Press baron in "old monk" storm
Rupert Murdoch's ignorant remarks about Tibet and the Dalai Lama show that he has become a propagandist for China's rulers
Festival follies
New Statesman Scotland
Where tectonic plates collide
New Statesman Scotland - Scotland, argues Christopher Harvie, lies on the fault line between European social marketism and Atlantic neo-liberalism. But which represents the way forward?
Don't forget the dirty work
New Statesman Scotland - Blair's gurus see a clean, digitised, virtual future. Wrong, argues George Rosie
Primary Tartan
New Statesman Scotland
This Alba
New Statesman Scotland
Grassroots
New Statesman Scotland
Essay
The New Statesman Essay - Ulster: why the left must think again
The Unionists should get more credit for burying old enmities
Interview
The New Statesman Interview - John Edmonds
"Among public sector workers, there is a feeling of a build-up to an eruption." John Edmonds interviewed
Culture
The misappliance of science
Their job is to increase public understanding of their field, but they're falling down on it. Hugh Aldersey-Williams names the guilty men
Sound principles
Music 1 - Richard Cook on the minutiae of remastering
History lessons
Music 2 - Dermot Clinch on Proms premieres
Books
A nation enslaved by its past. Russians have always valued freedom as an ideal. But, argues Edward Skidelsky, it is an inward, spiritual freedom which has never been translated into civic liberty
Russia Under Western Eyes: From the Bronze Horseman to the Lenin Mausoleum Martin Malia The Belknap Press at the Harvard University Press, 524pp, £21.95 ISBN 0674781201
Lost in thought
Destiny Tim Parks Secker & Warburg, 249pp, £14.99 ISBN 0436220881
Thickening plots
The Private Life of Kim Philby Rufina Philby St Ermin's Press, 449pp, £18.99 ISBN 0316647799
Countryside capers
Headlong Michael Frayn Faber & Faber, 395pp, £16.99 ISBN 0571200516
Rustic Cunning
Stanley Baldwin: Conservative Leadership and National Values Philip Williamson Cambridge University Press, 378pp, £25 ISBN 0521432278
Hollow victory
The World as Sculpture James Hall Chatto & Windus, 435pp, £25 ISBN 070116882X
Novel of the week
The Last Life Claire Messud Picador, 350pp, £14.99 ISBN 0330375636
Farewell, my lovely
The Assassination of Marilyn Monroe Donald H Wolfe Warner Books, 660pp, £7.99 ISBN 0751526525
