27 September 1999
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Cover story
Women don't deserve to be on top
When 101 female MPs were elected two years ago, we thought history was made and politics would change. We were wrong
Features
In search of the core voter
We asked Robert Chesshyre to seek out Labour's "alienated" natural supporters. It took him time and, when found, they seemed surprisingly sanguine
Two Englands, but which has won?
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?
Robert Taylor invites you to test your knowledge of Labour conferences
They really must stop dithering
Roy Jenkins urges Blair and Brown to start a pro-single currency campaign at once
Is John Gummer safe?
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
With a hint of the feral, the Chancellor is a true sex symbol
Bath chairs out, Blair in
Hester Lacey finds genteel Bournemouth, where Labour meets this year, trying to update itself
Revealed: how I betrayed my country
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
Or was neither on the pitch? Charlotte Raven was none the wiser after a public debate
A government of dubious taste
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
New Statesman Scotland
Forged in the white heat of devolution
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
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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Essay
The New Statesman Essay - The old Labour rocks re-emerge
Blair hasn't changed his party's anti-liberal culture, argues David Marquand
Interview
The New Statesman Interview - Mo Mowlam
"I have not finished in Northern Ireland," she says. And she usually gets her own way. Mo Mowlam interviewed
Culture
A plague on both their houses
Do our genes dictate what we are or does our environment? It isn't that simple. Colin Tudge calls time on the "nature versus nurture" debate
Unhappy eaters
Design - Hugh Aldersey-Williams wonders why restaurants look the way they do
Baton charge
Classical - Dermot Clinch on Rattle at the Proms
Books
Just good friends. Far from dumbing down, newspapers have never been better resourced or more authoritative and entertaining, argues Peter Stothard. So why is Stephen Glover so gloomy?
Secrets of the Press: Journalists on Journalism Stephen Glover (editor) Penguin Press, 306pp, £20 ISBN 0713992654
Inside the whale
Devil's Advocate John Humphrys Hutchinson, 288pp, £16.99 ISBN 009180048X
How's that!
Runs in the Memory: County Cricket in the 1950s Stephen Chalke Fairfield Books, 204pp, £15.95 ISBN 0953119602 Caught in the Memory: County Cricket in the 1960s Stephen Chalke Fairfield Books, 222pp, £16.95
He's back
The Soldier's Return Melvyn Bragg Sceptre 346pp, £16.99 ISBN 0340751002
Bridging the gap
Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution Lisa Jardine Little, Brown, 444pp, £25 ISBN 0316647527
Novel of the Week
The Book of Revelation Rupert Thomson Bloomsbury, 264pp, £12.99 ISBN 0747544395
Beast in view
The Abolition of Britain: From Lady Chatterley to Tony Blair Peter Hitchens Quartet, 324pp, £15 ISBN 0704381176
Dream on
The Faber Book of Utopias John Carey (editor) Faber & Faber, 531pp, £20 ISBN 057119785X
A who?
Where Did It All Go Right?: An autobiography A Alvarez Richard Cohen Books, 344pp, £20 ISBN 1860661734
Autumn paperbacks
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