27 September 1999

Two Englands, but which has won?

By George Lucas

Huntingdon is the safest Tory seat, Bootle the safest Labour one. Guess which is more satisfied with the government. George Lucasreports

Conference quiz - Who, what, when and where?

By Robert Taylor

Robert Taylor invites you to test your knowledge of Labour conferences

They really must stop dithering

By Roy Jenkins

Roy Jenkins urges Blair and Brown to start a pro-single currency campaign at once

Is John Gummer safe?

By Peter Kellner

Labour soars in the polls, but loses the Euro elections. Peter Kellneron a modern mystery

The top people's party?

After two years in power, the polls still give comfort to the government. But we asked some influential men and women if they'd vote Labour now . . .

How Gordon wields his girrrl power

By Helen Wilkinson

With a hint of the feral, the Chancellor is a true sex symbol

Bath chairs out, Blair in

By Hester Lacey

Hester Lacey finds genteel Bournemouth, where Labour meets this year, trying to update itself

Revealed: how I betrayed my country

By Francis Beckett

Francis Beckettisn't waiting for more KGB files to be opened. He has decided to come clean now on the secrets he gave to a Russian called Boris

Late score: Pluralists 3, Populists 0

By Charlotte Raven

Or was neither on the pitch? Charlotte Raven was none the wiser after a public debate

A government of dubious taste

By Theodore Dalrymple

From Blair reading his poem at the TUC to Mo Mowlam taking off her wig in public, new Labour promotes emotional kitsch, argues Theodore Dalrymple

It's a bitch and it's got to stop

By Alistair Moffat

New Statesman Scotland

Forged in the white heat of devolution

By Donald Dewar

New Statesman Scotland - It is not enough for Scots merely to get a different system of government. Labour is making sure they get a better one , writesDonald Dewar

One man's crisis, another man's croft

By James Hunter

New Statesman Scotland - The areas that have relied on hill sheep farming must reinvent themselves or die. An old way of life may offer new answers

This Alba

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Primary Tartan

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Grassroots

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Diary

If you'd seen Steve Norris in the street 30 years ago, badly dressed and overweight, you wouldn't have given him a second glance

By Ken Livingstone

Like so many supposed geniuses of PR, Sophie has no idea of how to manage her own image

By Suzanne Moore

A London mayor will be no use if he can't tax and spend

By Darcus Howe

If you employ my system, you will win 99 per cent of the time at the roulette wheel

By Sean French

This England

Media

Spies are just not the same class of person as they used to be

By Ian Hargreaves

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Come up and see me sometime - I'm in Soho now, you know

By Laurie Taylor

Competition - Win a bottle of champagne