11 October 1999
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Cover story
A world without children
We shouldn't worry about overpopulation, argues Mark Leonard. The real problem is quite different
Features
Shock: Tories are (quite) united
The commentators have got it wrong on both the party leaders, argues Steve Richards after the Bournemouth and Blackpool conferences
Someone has to pay for true equality
Tony Blair's "light touch" with employers is tough on families, arguesYvonne Roberts
How to boost supermarket profits
Big companies boast of their generosity in providing computers for schools. But what's in it for them? More than you may think, reports Francis Beckett
Bet you a fiver he's on something
Charlotte Ravenadmits that her reasons for taking cocaine were probably banal
Only money will set Africa free
Peter Hain, now a foreign office minister, explains his new policy for the continent of his birth
Did France censor Hobsbawm?
Age of Extremes came out in 1994 and was soon translated into many languages. Yet only now is it available in French. David Lawdayreports
Which side is Which?
The Consumers' Association was founded to defend the individual against big business. Richard Colbeyasks what happened to its radical campaigning
How gerrymandering helped American blacks
In the US, even voting is affected by "affirmative action". David Edmondsreports
Drop this second-rate mentality
New Statesman Scotland
We must stop locking up our kids
New Statesman Scotland - Disadvantaged children are too often placed at the mercy of an uncaring penal system. Claire Walker thinks it's time for a more enlightened approach
The union is shaken, but not stirred
New Statesman Scotland - The SNP was ecstatic at its near-win in Hamilton South. Tom Brownwarns Labour to heed the signs
Primary Tartan
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Grassroots
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This Alba
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Essay
The New Statesman Essay - When democracy doesn't work
Stuart Hampson argues that ministers and MPs should stop fussing over details
Culture
The strength in numbers
As the millennium approaches, we worry about the end of time. We'd do better, suggests Ziauddin Sardar, to reconsider how we count the days
Ace of clubs
Jazz - Richard Cook meets the man who's kept Ronnie Scott's going for four decades
Master of musick
Classical - Dermot Clinch on a landmark recording of William Byrd's complete works
Si monumentum requiris . . .
Architecture - A fountain for Diana? James Hall has his doubts
Books
From fez to fedora. He transformed a caliphate into a modern state but he still kept a black eunuch to guard his women. Mark Mazower on a new study of the father of modern Turkey
Ataturk Andrew Mango John Murray, 666pp, £30 ISBN 0719556120
Girl zone
Whistling for the Elephants Sandy Toksvig Bantam, 300pp, £12.99 ISBN 0593044800
Gale force
Isaac's Storm: The Drowning of Galveston Erik Larson Fourth Estate, 385pp, £16.99 ISBN 1857028414
High hopes
Writing on Drugs Sadie Plant Faber and Faber, 276pp, £9.99 ISBN 0571196160
Going gently
The Blackwater Lightship Colm Toibin Picador, 273pp, £15 ISBN 0330389858
Novel of the week
Blood-Red Rivers Jean-Christophe Grange, translated by Ian Monk Harvill Press, 334pp, £15.99 ISBN 1860466591
Baby bird
J G Farrell: The Making of a Writer Lavinia Greacen Bloomsbury, 428pp, £25 ISBN 0747544638
