04 October 1999
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Features
A party at war with itself
As the Tories prepare themselves for their annual conference, Simon Hefferdespairs of their lacklustre leader and rampant internecine bickering
A new style of governing
Men in grey suits: the revolution - Civil servants will make better decisions if they have access to more knowledge. No 10 thinks it knows just how to do this
Not in front of the servants
Men in grey suits: the revolution - New Labour likes to think it is carving out a modern classless society. So why is it propping up a rigid class structure in the Civil Service, asks John Garrett
Will Carling is a real daddy
Modern fathers are too romantic about parenting
A few things pointy-heads should know
All Souls fellowships are for the seriously brainy. Harry Mount, like Belloc and Lord Dacre, failed
How Labour can still lose
A triumphant conference; enormous poll leads. Can anything go wrong? Yes, write Patrick Dunleavy and Stuart Weir. The 1997 victory was built on sand
An ideal home, but could you really live in it?
A swanky garage, lots of bathrooms, a study: show homes today reveal our new preoccupations while promising instant happiness
Political lobbying: it's a contact sport
New Statesman Scotland
The end of cosy consensus
New Statesman Scotland - The new minister had a surprise for a recent gathering of Scotland's education elite: he wants facts, figures, accountability
The Scots must learn to whinge
New Statesman Scotland - The rest of Britain has Scotland down as a nation of arch complainers, conning the English out of huge subsidies. In fact, the Scots are too timid, writesGeorge Rosie
Grassroots
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Essay
The New Statesman Essay - A birthday gift for every teenager
Julian Le Grand and David Nissanon a modern way to redistribute wealth
Culture
Beastly business
We remain more fascinated by dinosaurs than by any living creatures. But why? Tom Holland looks for the meaning in dinomania
Confusing signs
Design - Hugh Aldersey-Williams on the pitfalls of graphic instruction
Ways of seeing
Photography - Charles Darwent takes issue with a view of the century on camera
One of a kind
Rock - Richard Cook on the enduring enigma of Captain Beefheart
Books
A looking-glass world - Richard Gott was exposed as a supposed KGB "agent of influence" in 1994. Here he fights back, likening the anti-spy hysteria of recent weeks to McCarthyism
The Mitrokhin Archive: the KGB in Europe and the West Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin Allen Lane, Penguin Press, 996pp, £25 ISBN 0713993588
Poison pen
Alastair Campbell: New Labour and the Art of Media Management Peter Oborne Aurum Press, 230pp, £18.99 ISBN 1854106473
Dirty old town
Manchester, England Dave Haslam Fourth Estate, 319pp, £12.99 ISBN 1841151459
Under the net
A Brief History of the Future: The Origins of the Internet John Naughton Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 320pp, £18.99 ISBN 0297643304
Novel of the week
All the Names Jose Saramago The Harvill Press, 244pp, £15.99 hb ISBN 1860466427
